The "Official 1RTR Reunion Web Site" has several pages of photos, including some taken in Hong Kong in the 1950s. It also has a forum where you can contact old friends.
The photos:
A aquadron: Page 2, photos #54 - 73 are of Hong Kong in the late 1950s. Note several photos of tanks / armoured cars crashed into buildings...
B squadron (the squadron Fred served in): Page 1, photos #155 - 157 are of the "Farewell Parade to Comets Sek Kong 1959". Page 2, photos #22 - 25 are from around the same time.
In last month's visit to the UK I visited Fred. He'd found some slides of one of his colour films, which I was able to borrow and scan. Click the 'original' link on the following photos to see a larger copy.
Well done to Fred Evans for keeping these in good condition for all that time. If only my mother-in-law had been able to do the same :-(
She was living in Tai Po during the 60's (in Lai Chi Saan). Moved to the UK in 1973 after the govt put a compulsory purchase order in on the buildings in the area and had to leave all of her HK and Shenzhen photographs behind because there wasn't enough room for them in her luggage (well, she did have 4 children in tow, including my wife who was 9 months old at the time). My father-in-law's 1950's Borneo railroad pictures were, thankfully, saved.
It really is great seeing this stuff, and the colour photographs are still very clear.
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More photos of the First Royal Tank Regiment in Hong Kong
The "Official 1RTR Reunion Web Site" has several pages of photos, including some taken in Hong Kong in the 1950s. It also has a forum where you can contact old friends.
The photos:
Listen to Fred's introduction
to his time in Hong Kong. Click to play.
Hear Fred's comments
He talks about day-to-day work and maintenance of the tanks. (I didn't take copies of these photos)
Click to play.
Sharper copies of Fred's photos
In last month's visit to the UK I visited Fred. He'd found some slides of one of his colour films, which I was able to borrow and scan. Click the 'original' link on the following photos to see a larger copy.
There are three photos we haven't seen before:
and sharper copies of photos of several we'd previously seen:
Wow, what an absolute treasure trove
Well done to Fred Evans for keeping these in good condition for all that time. If only my mother-in-law had been able to do the same :-(
She was living in Tai Po during the 60's (in Lai Chi Saan). Moved to the UK in 1973 after the govt put a compulsory purchase order in on the buildings in the area and had to leave all of her HK and Shenzhen photographs behind because there wasn't enough room for them in her luggage (well, she did have 4 children in tow, including my wife who was 9 months old at the time). My father-in-law's 1950's Borneo railroad pictures were, thankfully, saved.
It really is great seeing this stuff, and the colour photographs are still very clear.