Hong Kong Volunteer Company

Hong Kong Volunteer Company (Chinese: 香港志願連) was a company of British-Chinese soldiers that escaped Japanese occupied Hong Kong, and served with the British in India and Burma during the Burma Campaign of World War II.

[1] Following the surrender of Hong Kong in December 1941, several British-Chinese soldiers made their escape to Free China, and subsequently volunteered to go to India to join the British Army and fight the Japanese.

[2] Escapees were assisted by the British Army Aid Group, and transported to Assam, and then to Calcutta by the Royal Air Force.

[2] Lieutenant Colonel Mike Calvert, a British officer who previously commanded local sappers in Hong Kong before 1941, called for volunteers from the escapees to serve with the Chindits.

[2] By February 1943, the Hong Kong Volunteer Company was put into service with the Chindits in Burma.