Osborne Barracks
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Osborn Barracks (奧士本軍營) was a British Army facility in Hong Kong. Located in the northern part of Kowloon on Waterloo Road and Junction Road (across the street from Hong Kong Baptist University. The military facility was it was named for Company Sergeant Major Jack Osborn of the Winnipeg Grenadiers Osborn was a Canadian who died defending Hong Kong in 1941. He was given the Victoria Cross and the a barrack in Hong Kong named in his honour in 1945. Osborn is buried at Sai Wan Bay War Cemetery on Hong Kong Island.
The Osborn Barracks is still in use, now by the Chinese People's Liberation Army in Hong Kong.
