World War II

By Skyfeather1028

  • Event 1

    Winston Churchill realises that Hong Kong is in danger and decides to send reinforcements.

  • Event 2

    Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert

  • Event 3

    36 Japanese fighters attack Kai Tak airfield and units of the Japanese 23rd cross then Sham Chun Shan River

  • Event 4

    Evacuation of New Territories

  • Event 5

    Evacuation of Kowloon

  • Event 6

    Japanese demands surrender (surrender is ignored)

  • Event 7

    Japanese begins a heavy bombing and artillery barrage of the island's northern coastal defences.

  • Event 8

    Japanese main attack Hong Kong Island.

  • Event 9

    Grenadiers retake Mount Butler with heavy casualties.

  • Event 10

    HK Commander officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured.

  • Event 11

    Royal rifles retreat to Stanley.

  • Event 12

    Japanese attack Royal rifle and capture Stanley fort.

  • Event 13

    Japanese attack St. Stephens hospital.

  • Event 14

    Mt Cameron captured and Malty calls for Governor Young to surrender.

  • Event 15

    Over the month 10,000 women are raped.

  • Event 22

    Police recruited to be Kempeitai

  • Event 24

    Repatriation of Chinese back to the mainland.

  • Event 20

    Internment of most "white" allied citizens.

  • Event 16

    Hong Kong Dollar was outlawed and replaced by the Japanese Military Yen. The exchange rate was fixed at 2 Hong Kong Dollars to 1 Military Yen.

  • Event 17

    The Hong Kong Kowloon brigade was establish from the Guangdong People's anti-Japanese Guerilla force led by Cai Guo-liang.

  • Event 18

    Streets and buildings in Central were renamed in Japanese.

  • Event 21

    Food rationing begins

  • Event 23

    Public utilities handed over to Japanese control

  • Event 19

    The British Army Aid Group was formed by Colonel Lindsay Ride.

  • Event 25

    The US dropped an atomic bomb called the "Enola Gay" on Hiroshima, killing over 70,000 instantaneously.

  • Event 26

    Another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.

  • Event 27

    Japan finally surrenders.

  • Event 30

    Franklin Gimson, Hong Kong's colonial secretary, declares himself interim governor.

  • Event 31

    British Rear Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourt formally accepts the Japanese surrender. Mark Young resumes as Governor.

  • Event 29

    General Takashi Sakai is tried as a war criminal and executed on the afternoon of the 30th of September.

  • Event 28

    Hong Kong was handed over by Imperial Japanese Army to the Royal Navy on the 30th August was declared as the Liberation Day and has been a public holiday in Hong Kong until 1967