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. The volunteer company was initially made up of 128 Chinese members of the
Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corp, 49 Chinese members of the British Army, as well as several members from the
Air Transport Auxiliary,
Air Raid Precautions, and other personnel that escaped from
Japanese occupied Hong Kong to overseas. Escapees were assisted by the
British Army Aid Group, and transported to
Assam, and then to
Calcutta by the
Royal Air Force. They were later deployed to
Japanese-occupied Malaya conducting special reconnaissance behind enemy lines. == See also ==