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Help From A Japanese Guard
Mr. White describes an amusing experience involving some local peddlers and a helpful Japanese guard.
A Close Call With Grenades
Mr. White describes an amusing but frightening experience shortly after the surrender of Hong Kong.
We Started to Dig a Big Pit to Bury Them In
Mr. White describes trying to evacuate and bury the dead from a bombed out residence, and being thwarted by a mortar attack.
My Introduction to War
Mr. White discusses Britain’s naive skepticism about Japan attacking Hong Kong. He describes confusion among the Canadian soldiers experiencing their first Japanese air raid.
They Were Dying Right and Left
Mr. MacWhirter describes life at Sham Shui Po camp. He discusses diseases and being intimidated by the Kamloops Kid.
Then They Started to get Tough
Mr. MacWhirter describes the march to North Point camp and the bayoneting of the wounded. He also describes the murder of Chinese sympathizers as well as deteriorating conditions in the camp.
There was Blood Running in That Water
Mr. MacWhirter discusses the futility of the Canadian combat strategy and the human cost of poor communications after the call to surrender.
We Felt That we Would not be There Long
Mr. MacWhirter describes an attack on Kowloon, fallback to Lai Moon, and the invasion of the island by the Japanese. He discusses the inadequacy of Canadian weapons.
We Were Living Like Kings
Mr. MacWhirter describes a soldier’s life in Kowloon and compares it with the squalor and misery of the local population.
We Didn’t Have any Tanks . . . Nothing!
Mr. Murphy discusses the inadequate training, weaponry and transportation experienced in Hong Kong
I had Never Heard Tell of Hong Kong.
Mr. Murphy describes his voyage from Victoria, British Columbia, to the Hong Kong colony.
POW Living Conditions
Mr. Lowe describes Sham Shui Po and compares it with his experiences at North Point, particularly burial detail and the Kai Tak labour gangs.
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