The Manitoba Hong Kong Veterans Flag was laid up in All Saints Anglican Church on 14 August 1994 (the 49th anniversary of V-J Day) to honour Hong Kong Veterans and will remain in place until it disintegrates. The flag was designed by Hong Kong Veterans and has the insignia given to them by Canada in the center with the words “Hong Kong Veterans” around it. Due to All Saints Anglican Church's proximity to Fort Osborne, in their early years they were known as "the military church" and had many military personnel as parishioners.
The defence of Hong Kong was a brutal chapter in Canada's military history. Of the almost 2,000 Canadians who sailed to Hong Kong in late 1941, more than 550 would never see Canada again. Many would die in the fierce combat of December 1941. Others would perish in the grinding conditions of the Japanese prison camps throughout the rest of the war. Many of those who did survive would return home with their health broken and their lives shortened by their experiences, forever shaken by their experiences and the extreme hardships they endured.
