The military facility was named for Canadian Army Company Sergeant Major John Robert Osborn of the Winnipeg Grenadiers.

He was awarded the Victoria Cross[2] and a barracks in Hong Kong was named in his honour in 1945 after the liberation.

[4] The statue of the anonymous World War I soldier was originally part of the Eu Tong Sen statuary collection at Eucliff villa.

When Eucliff villa was demolished, the Eu family donated the statue in the 1980s to Osborn Barracks in Kowloon where it stayed for 20 years before being relocated to Hong Kong Park.

[5] Part of the land of the Osborn Barracks (the east of Renfrew Road) was given to Hong Kong Baptist University for new campus development in early 1990s.