Where was this?

**Bob Bacon** · 25-06-2017, 23:20

Now, what was this occasion?

**Rob12** · 26-06-2017, 09:04

Hong Kong, Gun Club Barracks. Unsure what occasion? Tom Sal attending to the flag pole.

**nasher546** · 26-06-2017, 16:22

Could it be the 1RWF - 1 Royal Hamps handover/takeover?

**pete d** · 26-06-2017, 20:12

Could it be royal regiment of fusiliers they had a red and white hackles?

**steve bird** · 26-06-2017, 20:33

Lord knows rrf on the left rwf on the right Sgt tom sal at the flag pole gun club can't remember the rrf in hong Kong the same time as us and I thought it was some jock regiment that took over from us

**Keith Jones 989** · 26-06-2017, 22:19

You are right, Steve, QOHLDRS took over Gun Club from us. This photo COULD be handover of Governors or Victoria Barracks (HQ Hong Kong) Guard. Seem to recall that RRF took over Lyemun Camp before we left for Londonderry? Not sure so please don't quote me!

**Bob Bacon** · 26-06-2017, 22:28

It was the handover by the 1st Bn The Lancashire Fusiliers (1967-1969) Gun Club Hill Barracks in Hong Kong to the Royal Welch Fusiliers.

A list of troops stationed at the Barracks:

Second Royal Welch Fusiliers (1899)
91st Argylls (1888)
1st Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry (1892)
1st Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
25th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (1948)
15th Medium Regiment RA (1 April 1955 - 25 September 1957)
First Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers (1967)
First Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers (1969–71)
First Battalion Royal Hampshire Regiment (1974–76)
1st Battalion, the Black Watch (1971–73)
10th Intelligence and Security Company (1977)
28 Squadron, The Gurkha Transport Regiment (-1997)
248 Gurkha Signal Squadron (-1997)
Sikh and Punjabi Mussulman Companies
Hong Kong Singapore Battalion Royal Artillery

**Keith Jones 989** · 27-06-2017, 00:27

Who was there 1971- 1974? Could it have been QO HLDRS?

**Bob Bacon** · 27-06-2017, 08:22

1st Battalion, the Black Watch (1971–73)
First Battalion Royal Hampshire Regiment (1974–76)

As far as I am aware,

1st Queen's Own Highlanders in Germany - 1971-1976
In April 1971 the Queen's Own Highlanders moved to Belfast Barracks, Osnabrück, in West Germany. The battalion formed part of 12 Mechanised Brigade, in the 2nd Division, in the British Army of the Rhine.