Winnipeg Grenadiers

Mr. Forsyth recalls the day Japan attacked Hong Kong: being vastly outnumbered and having faulty munitions.

Mr. Forsyth recalls a Veteran who had been wounded at Vimy in the First World War, signing up for the Second World War and passing the registration medical at roughly the same time as himself.

Mr. White reflects on the events that led to Canada’s involvement in Hong Kong, and the struggle by Veterans of that theatre of war to receive an adequate pension.

Mr. White describes events in Sham Shui Po that indicated that the war was ending.

Mr. White discusses how important the Red Cross supply packages were to the POW’s, and how everything in them was shared among the inmates.

Mr. White describes being in the Kai Tek airport work gangs, and the cost of the subversion which occurred there.

Mr. White discusses the large variety of diseases experienced by inmates of the POW camps.

Mr. White describes a notorious and extremely abusive Japanese guard, aka the Kamloops Kid, a Japanese Canadian who returned home to help with Japan’s war effort.

Mr. White describes an amusing experience involving some local peddlers and a helpful Japanese guard.

Mr. White describes an amusing but frightening experience shortly after the surrender of Hong Kong.