Kilted in China ans Hong Kong

[McFarkus]

The power of the kilt is apparently international. I work at an agency serving, among others, Chinese refugees and immigrant. The first day I wore my kilt to work, and older gentleman looked at me, did a double take and said, "A kilt! Just like in Hong Kong!" It took me a moment to realize that the British army was in Hong Kong until fairly recently, including, apparently, kilted regiments.

[herminator]

Bonsai and kilts!

Sounds like heaven!

[Galician]

The power of the kilt is apparently international. I work at an agency serving, among others, Chinese refugees and immigrant. The first day I wore my kilt to work, and older gentleman looked at me, did a double take and said, "A kilt! Just like in Hong Kong!" It took me a moment to realize that the British army was in Hong Kong until fairly recently, including, apparently, kilted regiments.

I was on my way to a kilt meet here last year when I stumbled upon the annual Sikh celebration. I got the same happy recognition from the older folks in the crowd, who clearly remembered kilts from the long British presence in that region. Lots of the boys wanted a photo with me.

[Tim Little]

The power of the kilt is apparently international. I work at an agency serving, among others, Chinese refugees and immigrant. The first day I wore my kilt to work, and older gentleman looked at me, did a double take and said, "A kilt! Just like in Hong Kong!" It took me a moment to realize that the British army was in Hong Kong until fairly recently, including, apparently, kilted regiments.

Indeed:

A piece of British military history will be played out next week when the Black Watch flies to Hong Kong, making it the last regiment to join the garrison.

Officially it is coming because the bureaucratic machine which runs these things has popped its name out of the computer which schedules troop movements on a rotation basis. In reality, the regiment, which also presided over the end of empire in India, is coming because Britain is still good at putting on a military show and few regiments look better on the parade ground than men in kilts.

The Black Watch will provide the backbone of two ceremonies on 30 June, the last day of colonial rule. The first will be the traditional flag- lowering. It will take place at sunset against a backdrop of Victoria Harbour, where Captain Elliot first sailed in to take possession of what a very annoyed Palmerston described as a "barren rock".

The "rock" is now filled to bursting with skyscrapers which crowd round the HMS Tamar military headquarters, where a joint military and civilian ceremony will draw to a close as "The Last Post" is blasted out for the last time. "It will be one of those 'not a dry face in the house occasions'," said Roger Goodwin, the garrison's spokesman.

Joining the Pipes and Drums of the Black Watch will be the Band of the Scots Guards, the Highland Band and the Gurkha Band, all of which will have been flown in because the rundown of the garrison will have reached a stage where bodies are thin on the ground.

As midnight draws near, a much smaller guard of honour will be sent to the extension of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, where they will join an equal number of People's Liberation Army (PLA) troops. Before some 4,000 dignitaries, the British will lower the Union flag and the flag of the colony of Hong Kong, followed by the raising of China's flag and the new flag of the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong.

Full article here.

[GMan]

Very nice