Lieutenant ColonelMike Calvert, a British officer who previously commanded Chinese sappers in Hong Kong before 1941, called for volunteers from the escapees to serve with the Chindits.[2] By February 1943, the Hong Kong Volunteer Company was put into service with the Chindits in Burma.[3][4] They were later deployed to Japanese-occupied Malaya conducting special reconnaissance behind enemy lines.[5]
^"The Hong Kong Volunteer Company" (PDF). Hong Kong Volunteer & Ex.PoW Association of NSW. (PDF) from the original on 23 December 2021. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
^ abcLai, Benjamin (2014). Hong Kong 1941–45: First strike in the Pacific War. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 91. ISBN978-1-7820-0269-7.
^"The Chindits -2nd Expedition". from the original on 29 November 2021. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
^"Cheng, Maximo Anthony (Oral history)". Imperial War Museums. from the original on 20 April 2021. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
^鄺智文; 張少強、陳嘉銘、梁啟智 (2016). 二次大戰期間的香港華籍英兵(PDF). Hong KOng. pp. 19–20. (PDF) from the original on 26 October 2021. Retrieved 7 November 2021.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Further readingedit
KWONG, Chi Man (2014). 老兵不死：香港華籍英兵（1857-1997）. Joint Publishing. ISBN978-962-04-3563-8.
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