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Japanese Occupation Timeline - Coggle Diagram
Japanese Occupation Timeline
At 22:30 hrs, December 18 1941
Japanese main attack Hong Kong Island.
Dec 19 1941
Grenadiers Retake Mount Butler with heavy casualties.
Dec 20 1941
HK Commanding officer Lawson was killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured.
Dec 23 1941
Royal rifles Retreat to Stanley.
5:00am Dec 25 1941
Japanese attack Royal rifles
and capture Stanley fort.
6:00am Dec 25 1941
Japanese attack
St. Stephens’s College.
3:15pm Dec 25 1941
Mt Cameron is captured and
Maltby calls for Governor
Young to surrender.
January 1942
Over the month10,000 women are raped.
January 1942
Hong Kong Dollar was outlawed and replaced by the Japanese Military Yen. The exchange rate was fixed at 2 Hong Kong dollars to one military yen.
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Dec 17 1941
Japanese begin a heavy bombing and artillery barrage of the island's northern coastal defenses.
Dec 13 1941
Japanese demand surrender
(surrender is ignored).
Dec 12 1941 Evacuation of Kowloon.
Dec 11 1941
Evacuation of New Territories.
8am December 8 1941
36 Japanese fighters attack Kai Tak airfield and units of the Japanese 23rd cross the Sham Chun Shan River.
November 16 1941
Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert.
September 1941
Winston Churchill realises that Hong Kong is in danger and decides to send reinforcements.