• Source: Commander British Forces in Hong Kong

      • The Commander British Forces in Hong Kong (CBF) was a senior British Army officer who acted as Military Advisor to the Governor of Hong Kong and was in charge of the Hong Kong British Forces. The officeholder of this post concurrently assumed the office of the Lieutenant Governor of Hong Kong before the abolition of the position.


      Structure


      The Governor of Hong Kong, being a representative of the British sovereign, was the Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces and Vice Admiral in the Crown colony (then British Dependent Territories).
      The Governor was advised by the Commander British Forces in Hong Kong (CBF) on all military actions. During the 1980s and 1990s, the CBF was normally a career Major General or Lieutenant General from the British Army. Until 1966, the CBF was an ex officio member of the Legislative Council.


      Commanders


      Commanders have included:

      Commander British Forces in Hong Kong
      1843–1848 Major-General George d'Aguilar
      1848–1851 Major-General William Staveley
      1851–1854 Major-General William Jervois
      Commander British Troops in China and Hong Kong
      1854–1857 Major-General Sir Robert Garrett
      1857–1858 Major-General Thomas Ashburnham
      1858–1859 Major-General Sir Charles van Straubenzee
      1860–1861 Major-General Sir James Grant
      1861–1862 Major-General Sir John Michel
      1862–1863 Major-General Sir Charles Staveley
      1863–1864 Major-General William Brown
      1864–1867 Major-General Sir Philip Guy
      1867–1869 Major-General James Brunker
      Commander British Troops in China, Hong Kong, and the Straits Settlements
      1869–1874 Major-General Henry Whitfield
      1874–1878 Lieutenant General Sir Francis Colborne
      1878–1882 Lieutenant General Edward Donovan
      1882–1885 Lieutenant General John Sargent
      1885–1889 Lieutenant General Sir William Cameron
      Commander British Troops in China and Hong Kong
      1889–1890 Major-General Sir James Edwards
      1890–1895 Major-General Sir George Barker
      1895–1898 Major-General Sir Wilsone Black
      1898–1903 Major-General Sir William Gascoigne

      Commander British Forces in China
      1915–1921 Major-General Francis Ventris
      1921–1922 Major-General George Kirkpatrick
      1922–1925 Major-General Sir John Fowler

      Commander British Troops in China
      1932–1935 Lieutenant-General Oswald Borrett
      1935–1938 Major-General Arthur Bartholomew
      1938–1941 Major-General Edward Grasett
      Aug–Dec 1941 Major-General Christopher Maltby
      Note from 1941 to 1945 Hong Kong was under Japanese occupation
      Commander British Forces in Hong Kong
      1945–1946 Major-General Sir Francis Festing
      1946–1948 Major-General Sir George Erskine
      1948–1949 Major-General Francis Matthews
      Jun–Sep 1949 Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Festing
      1949–1951 Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Mansergh
      1951–1952 Major-General Geoffrey Evans
      1952–1954 Major-General Terence Airey
      1954–1955 Lieutenant-General Cecil Sugden
      1955–1957 Lieutenant-General Sir William Stratton
      1957–1960 Lieutenant-General Sir Edric Bastyan
      1960–1961 Lieutenant-General Sir Roderick McLeod
      1961–1963 Lieutenant-General Sir Reginald Hewetson
      1963–1964 Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Craddock
      1964–1966 Lieutenant-General Sir Denis O'Connor
      1966–1968 Lieutenant-General Sir John Worsley
      1968–1970 Lieutenant-General Sir Basil Eugster
      1970–1973 Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Ward
      1973–1976 Lieutenant-General Sir Edwin Bramall
      1976–1978 Lieutenant-General Sir John Archer
      1978–1980 Major-General Sir Roy Redgrave
      1980–1982 Major-General John Chapple
      1982–1985 Major-General Derek Boorman
      1985–1987 Major-General Anthony Boam
      1987–1989 Major-General Garry Johnson
      1989–1992 Major General Peter Duffell
      1992–1994 Major-General John Foley
      1994–1997 Major-General Bryan Dutton


      Residences


      Flagstaff House, 1840s–1978
      Headquarters House, 1978–1997


      See also


      Lieutenant Governor of Hong Kong
      Commander of Hong Kong Garrison, People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China


      References

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