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Originally Posted by fairlie63
Campaign Stars and Commemorative Medals Instituted for the 1939-45 War, The War Office, 11 June 1948
Pacific Star - qualifying land areas: Hong Kong 8.12.41 - 25.12.41.
Burma Star - qualifying land areas: Hong Kong 26.12.41 - 2.9.1945
Keith
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So would a soldier who fought in the Battle of Hong Kong and was then captured and held prisoner in Hong Kong eventually receive both stars? I'm thinking particularly of the late Max Cheng - HKSRA, then PW in Shamshuipo then escaped to China and joined BAAG and then to India - enlisted in the British Army and went into Burma as a Sgt interpreters with 3 GR. He returned to Hong Kong shortly after Liberation and served on as an Interpreter on War Crimes Investigation Unit. Mike