Chan's Personal Blog

This morning I was watching the Remembrance Day ceremonies on TV. One of the war veterans made an interesting remark. He said that our generation would be one of the last generations that will be able to talk to people who lived through the World Wars. They drove the point home by commenting that there were no World War I veterans at any of the ceremonies today, and this is the first year that this has happened. Apparently there are only five WW1 Canadian veterans left, and they are all not well enough to attend a public function. The time is also ticking for those who lived through WW2 unfortunately. Anyway, the man ended by encouraging our generation, who does not know war, to talk to relatives who lived through the war, and to remember their stories. So, I asked my parents about what my extended family's experience in the war was like.

I encourage you, if you have any war stories from your grandparents, please post a comment about it. I would find it most fascinating.

This article will retell the stories from both my grandmothers who lived in the Pacific theater of the war. One was in China, and the other was in Hong Kong.

To commemorate this week of Remembrance Day, I'm going to discuss the Battle of Hong Kong from World War 2. There are two angles to this story that makes it interesting to me. For starters, this was the first battle that Canadian forces fought in the Pacific theatre of the war. Secondly this battle was fought on my family's motherland, so this is important history for me. Read on to learn about Canada's contribution to the Battle of Hong Kong.