Discover Hong Kong - Museum of Coastal Defense

Rehabilitation of an old fort to accommodate the museum of coastal defense, built by the British in 1887 also the site of a fierce WWII battle between the British, Canadian and Indian soldiers entrusted with the task of defending Hong Kong and 20,000 Japanese soldiers.

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• Kong
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• Coastal
• Defense
• underground
• casemates
• tunnels
• and
• passages

[HKGarturo08]

@lynfran1 Thank you for coming to Hong Kong and have a hard copy of history of Hong Kong.

[lynfran1]

Finally I see the Museum. Went with my Son last April but picked the wrong day, definitely on my next trip to see Him and Daughter-in-Law, but I now have a better picture in my mind. Loved the music also.

[HKGarturo08]

Sorry for the late response, I think this is one of a good place to go in Hong Kong, before this is a restricted area but now became a Defense Museum after the hang over to China as I came back last year.

In the history, The Canadian Soldiers defensed Hong Kong but not the British as Hong Kong was a colony of British in the World-War II

I pay my salute to them.

[leftyyves]

thank you for that!

My dream is to go visiting Hong-Kong in a near futur because my grand-father died as a POW at North-Point camp back in 1942. He was a member of the Royal Rifles of Canada. He lies in Sai Wan cemetary. May he rest in peace.