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3 unusual facts about Shanghai Defence Force


John Rymer-Jones

From 1927 to 1928 he served as a staff officer with the Shanghai Defence Force and his last years in the Army, from 1929 to 1933, were spent as a company commander at the Royal Military Academy.

King's College, Hong Kong

Three months later the school building was opened, though it was immediately commandeered for use as a military camp and hospital for the British Shanghai Defence Force that was sent to protect the British subjects in the British Section of the then Shanghai Treaty Port.

Mid-Levels

The British used the school as the quarters and hospital for the British Shanghai Defence Force soon after it opened.



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