British Army Aid Group

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British Army Aid Group (BAAG), escape and evasion organization formed in south China by an Australian doctor, Lt-Colonel Lindsay Ride, after Hong Kong fell in December 1941. It was part of MI9. Its medical posts gave succour to escapers while its Hong Kong Chinese agents acted as Coast Watchers, undertook intelligence-gathering missions, and maintained contact with prisoner-of-war camps in Hong Kong. BAAG also helped acquire smuggled tin, rubber, and wolfram (see also raw and synthetic materials) from Thailand and French Indo-China; disrupted the Hong Kong shipyards by encouraging key personnel to escape; and formed the China Unit from available Hong Kong service personnel which fought as the Hong Kong Volunteer Company in the Burma campaign. Having been replaced in early 1945 by the US equivalent of MI9, MIS-X, by May 1945 it had assisted 1,886 servicemen and civilians—including 40 US airmen—to safety.

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