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Sai Wan AA Battery

Description

Surrendered gunners of the 5th Battery, HKVDC and 5th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment at Sai Wan AA Battery were murdered by soldiers of No. 6 Company, the 2nd Battalion, 229th Infantry Regiment.

Occurance Time

Evening of 18-19 December 1941

Casualties

28 Killed: 5 regulars & 23 Volunteers of 5 AA Bty., HKVDC. Some may have died in the fight for the position.

First Hand Accounts

" Afterwards we heard some voices in English and they told us to ‘Surrender’ and they said ‘Surrender and save’ in English, and so Sgt. BENNET told us to fix our bayonets and try to force our way out of the tunnel, so we followed him and tried to get out from that way to force our way down to the hill, but when some of us got out that way we had heard several shots from the opposite side and three of them were killed and the rest I do not know what happened to them. We went back to the tunnel and shouted that we were going to surrender, then they told us to come out. There were about twenty six of us. Then they made us come out in single file. We were searched by the Japanese at that time and afterwards we were put in a magazine. Then we all waited there for about two to three hours with some Japanese guarding us outside and when we were there some enemy came to count and ask how many of us in the magazine. Afterwards a Japanese Officer came up and spoke to the soldiers who was guarding us, and then there were about five to six Japanese who surrounded the magazine. One of them told us to come out from the door one by one. As each man came out from the door they were bayoneted to death. As to my turn I was bayoneted from the stomach, across my stomach to my abdomen. Then I pretended to be dead and lay there still. Afterwards we were thrown down to a place next to a kitchen. When I was thrown down there, I heard some of those wounded groaning and crying and one of them tried to shout out and ask who was still alive. Suddenly a Japanese came up and gave him a few bayonettings. The next morning, I heard someone calling me and that man was Mr. CHAN YAM KWONG Then I understood that there were only two who still survived, so we hid there for three days and three nights, until the fourth day we saw some Chinese Civilian going up the hill. Then we that the Japanese were already in Causeway Bay and the Chinese told us to change our clothes end escape. "

Sources

Tso Him Chi, 5th AA Battery, HKVDC