Talk:British Forces Overseas Hong Kong/@comment-86.168.186.199-20170115182433

No menton of the 1st Bn The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster). The 4th Regiment of Foot which served in the New Territories from 1955 - 1956, as part of 48 Gurkha Infantry Brigade following a 1 yr tour in Korea. ~ Is this because the Battalion was stationed in the New Territories, with Camps at Beas Stables, Dills Corner, and Lo Wu. I served at Beas Stables (HQ Coy), and with B Coy on the Border at Lo Wu. There we would conduct nightly Anti Immigrant Patrols along the Sham Chun River, lying up in the Paddy Fields adjacent to the River. We would catch several immigrants a night - We would hand these over to an accompanying Hong Kong Policmen (who didn't join us in the Paddy Fields, all fertilised with human excreta !) The Policeman after a protracted discussion with the immigrant, would always say "This No 1 Man Johnny !", so we would have to let him go. What a ***** waste of time.

We would return to our Camp at Lo Wu, tired, filthy dirty, wet and smelling of human excreta. Of the scores caught not one was ever forced to return across the Sham Chun River to Communist China.