UNITS IN CHINA.
BRITISH GARRISON
Seven Battalions At Three Centres.
TROOPS HOMEWARD BOUND. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 15. The 2nd Battalion, the Scots Guards, which left Shanghai last month in the City of Marseilles, has just passed Aden. The ship is due at Southampton on February 27.
The revised disposition of the British battalions in China and Hongkong provides for a garrison of seven battalions, two battalions at Shanghai, two at Tientsin, and three at Hongkong.
Tho 2nd Battalion. "Wiltshire Regiment, will join the Ist Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, in Shanghai about the end of February. The Ist Battalion, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, will leave Hongkong then, and the 3rd Battalion, Queen's Regiment, will leave on March 2. leaving as a garrison at Hongkong the 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers, the Ist Battalion. Somersetshire Regiment, and one Indian battalion.
The Tientsin garrison will remain as now, consisting of the 2nd Battalion, Border Regiment, and the 2nd Battalion, Roval Scots.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 40, 16 February 1929, Page 9
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