This week's newsletter is a team-effort guest post. It introduces a bumper crop of essays about wartime Hong Kong and the military structures whose ruins can still be seen around the Hong Kong countryside.
- The Battle of Hong Kong: a Note on the Literature and Effectiveness of the Defence
[View online via JSTOR or in print at the HK Public Library]- Lai, L.W.C. (1999{2001})
- Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 39, pp.115-136. [Publisher: Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society; ISSN: 0085-5774]
- Survey of the Devil’s Peak Redoubt and Gough Battery
[View online via JSTOR or in print at the HK Public Library]- Lai, L.W.C., Ho. D.C.W., and Leung, H.F. (2003)
- Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 42, pp. 101-137. [Publisher: Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society; ISSN: 0085-5774]
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- Survey of the Pottinger Battery
[View online via JSTOR or in print at the HK Public Library]
- Lai, L.W.C., Ho, D.C.W. and Yung, P. (2007)
- Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 47, pp. 91-114. [Publisher: Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society; ISSN: 1991-7295]
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- To Action on the Gin Drinker’s Line
[Download PDF]- Lai, L.W.C., Tan, Y.K. and Davies, S.N.G. (2008)
- British Archaeology, July/August, pp. 32-35.
- Recollections of the Battle of Hong Kong and Life of a POW by Mr. Arthur Ernesto Gomes, 5th Company (Machine Gun), HKDVC
[View online via JSTOR or in print at the HK Public Library]- Lai, L.W.C. (2008)
- Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 48, pp.25-50. [Publisher: Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society; ISSN: 1991-7295]
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- Small World War II Coastal Gun Casemates, Pillboxes, and Open Machine Gun Positions on Hong Kong Island in Photos
[View online via JSTOR or in print at the HK Public Library]- Davies, S.N.G., Lai, L.W.C. and Tan, Y.K. (2009)
- Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 49, pp.57-91. [Publisher: Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society; ISSN: 1991-7295]
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- The Gin Drinker’s Line: Reconstruction of a British Colonial Defence Line in Hong Kong Using Aerial Photo Information
[View online via Emerald Insight]- Lai, L.W.C., Tan, Y.K., Davies, S.N.G., and Yung, P. (2009)
- Property Management, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp.16-41.
- Upland World War II Headquarters, Pillboxes, and Observation Posts on Hong Kong Island in Photos
[View online via JSTOR or in print at the HK Public Library]- Lai, L.W.C., Davies, S.N.G. and Tan, Y.K. (2011)
- Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 51, pp. 207-236. [Publisher: Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society; ISSN: 1991-7295]
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- Decoding the Enigma of the Fall of the Shing Mun Redoubt Using Line of Sight Analysis
[Download PDF]- Lai, L.W.C. Davies, S. N.G., Ching, K. S.T., Wong, C. T.C., (2011)
- Surveying and Built Environment, Vol.21, No.2, pp. 21-42. [Publisher: HKIS; ISSN: 1816-9554]
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- Pillbox 3 Did Not Open Fire! Mapping the Arcs of Fire of Pillboxes at Jardine's Lookout and Wong Nai Chung Gap
[Download PDF]- Lai, L.W.C., Ching, K. S.T., Ko, T. and Tan, Y.K. (2011)
- Surveying and Built Environment, Vol.21, No.2, pp. 43-57. [Publisher: HKIS; ISSN: 1816-9554]
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- Location of Pillboxes and Other Structures of the Gin Drinker’s Line Based on Aerial Photo Evidence
[Download PDF]- Lai, L.W.C., Tan, Y.K., Ching, K.S.T. and Davies, S.N.G. (2011)
- Surveying and Built Environment, Vol.21, No. 2, pp. 69-70. [Publisher: HKIS; ISSN: 1816-9554]
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- Pillbox above Shing Mun Road
[Download PDF]- Tan, Y.K. (2011)
- Surveying and Built Environment, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 71-77.
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- Survey Findings on Japanese World War II Military Installations in Hong Kong
[Download PDF]- Lai, L.W.C., Tan, Y.K. and Ching, K.S.T. (2011)
- Surveying and Built Environment, Vol.21, No. 2, pp. 78-94. [Publisher: HKIS; ISSN: 1816-9554]
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- A Note on British Blockhouses in Hong Kong
[Download PDF]- Weir, Robin. (2012)
- Surveying & Built Environment, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp.8-18.
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- Pillbox 315 on the Gin Drinker’s Line
[Download PDF]- Lai. L.W.C., Tan. Y.K., Leung, G. and Ho. D. C.W. (2015)
- Surveying and Built Environment, Vol.23, No.1, pp. 56-74. [Publisher: HKIS; ISSN: 1816-9554]
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- Where is the Strand Palace Hotel
[Download PDF]- Tan, Y.K. (2015)
- Surveying and Built Environment, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 109-122.
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- Saiwan Redoubt Part I: A Unique, Intriguing but Neglected and Abused Example of Hong Kong’s Military Heritage
[Download PDF]- Davies, S.N.G., Ching, S.T, and Lai, L.W.C. (2016)
- Surveying and Built Environment, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 9-46. [Publisher: HKIS; ISSN: 1816-9554]
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- Saiwan Redoubt Part II: Hong Kong’s Oldest Property Boundary Marker Stone and Triangulation Station
[Download PDF]- Davies, S.N.G., and Ching, S.T. (2016)
- Surveying and Built Environment, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 47-78. [Publisher: HKIS; ISSN: 1816-9554]
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- Hong Kong Border Security Facilities 1950 - 1997
[Download PDF]- Tan, Y.K., Lai, L.W.C. and Leung, N.T.H. (2018)
- Surveying and Built Environment, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 66-76. [Publisher: HKIS; ISSN: 1816-9554]
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- Company Headquarters along the Gin Drinker’s Line and Other Places in the New Territories
[Download PDF]- Tan, Y.K. (2020)
- Surveying and Built Environment, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 89-108.
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- Battle for Mapping and Conserving Hong Kong’s World War II Military Built Heritage
[Download PDF]- Lai, L.W.C. (2021)
- Editorial, Surveying and Built Environment, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp.5-6. [Publisher: HKIS; ISSN: 1816-9554]
- Bokhara Battery and D’Aguilar Battery: Survey Findings
[Download PDF]- Davies, S.N.G., Lai, L.W.C., Ho, D.C.W. and Tan, Y.K. (2021)
- Surveying and Built Environment, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 86-106. [Publisher: HKIS; ISSN: 1816-9554]
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- Researching Hong Kong pillboxes: the hard way
[Download PDF]- Weir, Robin. (2020)
- Surveying & Built Environment, Vol. 30: pp.107-119
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- The Remains of “Not HMS Tamar”: Wrecks, Ruins, the Importance of Survey Data and the Tide of Ideological Correctness
[Download PDF]- Davies, S.N.G. (2021)
- Surveying and Built Environment, Special Issue pp. 24-36. [Publisher: HKIS; ISSN: 1816-9554]
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- Pillboxes on Luk Keng Knoll: Annotated Script for a Documentary on the Battle of Hong Kong
[Download PDF]- Lai, L.W.C. and Davies, S.N.G. (2021)
- Surveying and Built Environment, Special Issue, pp.37-50. [Publisher: HKIS; ISSN: 1816-9554]
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- Artillery Observation Posts (AOPs/OPs) and Battery Observation Posts (BOPs) on the Hong Kong Territory Mainland
[Download PDF]- Tan, Y.K. (2021a)
- Surveying and Built Environment, Special Issue, December 2021, Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors, Hong Kong, pp. 63-77.
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- Heavy Anti-Aircraft (HAA) Batteries
[Download PDF]- Tan, Y.K. (2021b)
- Surveying and Built Environment, Special Issue, December 2021, Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors, Hong Kong, pp. 78-85.
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- Artillery Batteries in Hong Kong (scroll down to the third map)
- Anti-aircraft Searchlights
[Download PDF]- Tan, Y.K. (2021c)
- Surveying and Built Environment, Special Issue, December 2021, Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors, Hong Kong, pp. 86-110.
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- Headquarters of the Gin Drinker’s Line and Mainland Defence
[Download PDF]- Tan, Y.K. (2021d)
- Surveying and Built Environment, Special Issue, December 2021, Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors, Hong Kong, pp. 111-129.
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- Pillboxes on Hong Kong Island in the Era of World War II
[Download PDF]- Lai, L.W.C., Tan, Y.K. and Davies, S.N.G. (2021)
- Surveying & Built Environment, Special Issue, December 2021, Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors, Hong Kong.
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- Pillboxes along the Gin Drinker’s Line: 80 Years after World War II
[Download PDF]- Tan, Y.K., Davies, S.N.G. & Lai L.W.C. (2022)
- Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors, Hong Kong.
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- Fixed Observation Posts on Hong Kong Island
[Download PDF]- Davies, S.N.G., Lai, L.W.C. and Tan, Y. K. (2022)
- Surveying and Built Environment, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp.45-104. [Publisher: HKIS; ISSN: 1816-9554]
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- Small Witnesses to Big Events: A Padlock Found in the Sing Mun Redoubt
[Download PDF]- Davies, S.N.G. and Lai, L.W.C. (2022)
- Surveying and Built Environment, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp.105-119. [Publisher: HKIS; ISSN: 1816-9554]
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- A New and Anomalous Observation Post above Shaukeiwan (Shau Ki Wan)
[Download PDF]- Davies, S.N.G., Lai, L.W.C. and Tan, Y. K. (2022)
- Surveying and Built Environment, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp.120-127. [Publisher: HKIS; ISSN: 1816-9554]
- A New, Possibly Japanese Observation Post/ Pillbox and Shelter in Hong Kong Park
[Download PDF]- Davies, S.N.G., Lai, L.W.C. and Tan, Y. K. (2022)
- Surveying and Built Environment, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp.128-137. [Publisher: HKIS; ISSN: 1816-9554]
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- Finding Pillbox 45: Destroyed during the Battle of Hong Kong, or Never there? Some Answers
[Download PDF]- Davies, S.N.G., Ching, K. S. T. and Lai, L.W.C. (2022)
- Surveying and Built Environment, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp.22-37. [Publisher: HKIS; ISSN: 1816-9554]
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- Supplement to Pillboxes on Hong Kong Island: Ruins of PB Kennedy Town Gap, PB21 and PB29
[Download PDF]- Lai, L.W.C., Chan, V. N. H. and Leung, N. T. H. (2022)
- Surveying and Built Environment, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp.43-52. [Publisher: HKIS; ISSN: 1816-9554]
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- Japanese Occupation Period Military Structures near Hong Kong’s Northeastern Border: an Initial Survey
[Download PDF]- Davies, S.N.G., Tan, Y.K. and Lai, L.W.C. (2022)
- Surveying and Built Environment, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp.64-147. [Publisher: HKIS; ISSN: 1816-9554]
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- Field Notes and Photos of Pillboxes on Hong Kong Island in the Era of World War II by Robin Weir
[Download PDF]- Weir, Robin. (2023)
- Surveying & Built Environment. Vol. 32, No. 1, pp.107-166.
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Many thanks to the authors for all the work that went into preparing these essays, and for sharing their research with us:
- Stephen N.S. Davies, Honorary/Adjunct Professor, Department of Real Estate & Construction, University of Hong Kong (Gwulo user id: stephenD)
- Lawrence W.C. Lai, Professor/Honorary Professor, Department of Real Estate & Construction, University of Hong Kong (Gwulo user id: lawrencelai)
F.R.I.C.S., F.H.K.I.S.,M.A.P.I. - Y.K. Tan, Teaching Assistant, Department of Real Estate & Construction, University of Hong Kong (Gwulo user id: GDL)
- Robin Weir (Gwulo user id: Rob)