提要

The British Army Aid Group

香港大學亞洲研究中心陳瑞璋

Chan Sui-jeung,

Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong

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英軍服務團是1942年7月由賴特上校倡議成立的。1941年12月香港淪陷後，所有英方人員被送往香港島及九龍多處的集中營囚禁。其後賴特上校成功由集中營逃往重慶，并在當地組成英軍服務團，總部設於廣西桂林，作為南方的前線基地，主要工作是營救被囚的戰俘、運送藥物和其他物資進出集中營，以及蒐集情報供盟軍使用，其間多次得到東江縱隊的協助及保護。

Abstract： The British Army Aid Group （BAAG） was formed in July l942 at the suggestion of Colonel Lindsay Ride. After the fall of Hong Kong in December l941, all British side personnel were sent into various prisoners-of-war （POW） camps on Hong Kong Island and in Kowloon. Ride later escaped from his camp and arrived in Chongqing, where he formed the unit, with its headquarters in Guilin, Guanqxi as a frontline base in the south. They mainly rescued POWs from the camps, smuggled medicine and other supplies in and out of the camps, and gathered intelligence for the Allied Forces. In the process, the BAAG had the active co-operation and protection of the East River Column.