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Map of the Gin Drinkers Line

Gin Drinkers Line (Chinese: 醉酒灣防線) or Gin Drinker's Line was a British military defence line against Japanese invasion in Hong Kong, 1941. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The Battle of Hong Kong took place during the Pacific campaign of World War II. Hong Kong ( officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located on China 's south coast on the Pearl River Delta, and borders Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Bunkers, concrete fortified machine gun posts, trenches and artillery batteries were built along the line. A military bunker is a hardened shelter often buried partly or fully underground designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks For other uses of the phrase see Machine Gun (disambiguation. A trench is a type of excavation or depression in the ground Trenches are generally defined by being deeper than they are wide (as opposed to a wider Gully or Ditch In Military organizations an artillery battery is a unit of Guns mortars or Rockets so grouped in order to facilitate better battlefield Its name came from Gin Drinkers Bay, a bay nearby in Kwai Chung, Hong Kong. Gin Drinkers Bay ( literally Drunkard's Bay or Gin Drinker's Bay is also known as Lap Sap Wan (垃圾灣 lit Kwai Chung is an area in the New Territories of Hong Kong, China. Hong Kong ( officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located on China 's south coast on the Pearl River Delta, and borders With construction was started in 1936, it is linked to the several peaks between New Kowloon and New Territories. Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. New Kowloon is an area in Kowloon, Hong Kong, bounded in the south by Boundary Street, and in the north by the ranges of the Lion Rock, New Territories, abbreviated to NT or NT, is a region in Hong Kong excluding Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and Stonecutters Island

The concept came from the Maginot Line in France. The Maginot Line (IPA, Ligne Maginot named after French Minister of Defense André Maginot, was a line of concrete Fortifications tank obstacles artillery The British believed the line could protect the colony from Japanese invasion for at least six months and even called it the "Oriental Maginot Line". The Japanese generals also believed the line would stop their advance until the scouts found out the line was very weak. For example, only 30 soldiers were defending a bunker with a capacity of 120 soldiers. Similar to the Maginot Line, the Gin Drinkers Line was generally considered to be a complete failure. The line and the whole of Kowloon were abandoned by the British troops in just two days.

There are some remains of bunkers near Shing Mun Reservoir, with the defence lines named after London roads, for example, Charing Cross to provide familiarity to the soldiers of the Middlesex regiment. Shing Mun Reservoir ( is a Reservoir in Hong Kong. It is located in Shing Mun, the area between Tsuen Wan and Sha Tin. One of the Japanese invasion forces broke the defence line here.

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