Force "C" - Canadian forces sent in November 1941
to try and help defend Hong Kong

Presented to the VIPS 28 Nov 2013

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Table of contents

  1   Title Page
  2   Defense of Hong Kong
  3   Winnipeg Grenadiers
  4   Departed from Vancouver
  5   Transport H.M.T. Awatea
  6   H.M.T. Awatea at Manila:
  7   HMCS Prince Robert
  8   Covers written en route
  9   Cover mailed at Honolulu
10   Cover mailed at Manila
11   Cover: Capt. Frederick T. Atkinson to his wife.
12   Prince Robert trip to Esquimalt
13   Air Mail – Nov. 25, 1941
14   Surface Mail: Nov 28, 1941
15   Final defeat – Dec. 25, 1941
16   Mail Service Suspended – Surface
17   No opportunity to deliver mail to Force C
18   Suspended: Surface mail
19   Mail Service Suspended – Air Mail
20   POW Card - Undated
21   POW Envelope - 1944
22   L/Cpl. Lionel Speller
23   Victoria (May 5, 1942) to POW
24   Wellington (Aug. 21, 1942) to POW
25   Victoria (Sept. 9, 1942) to POW
26   Sevenoaks, B.C. (Sept. 14, 1942) to POW
27   Victoria (Sept. 22, 1942) to POW
28   Victoria (July 18, 1943) To POW
29   Victoria (Sep. 27, 1943) To POW
30   Victoria (Mar. 28, 1944) to POW
31   Victoria (May 23, 1944) to POW
32   Victoria (July 29, 1944) to POW
33   Nanaimo (August 29, 1944) to POW
34   Victoria Region (1944 or 1945, undated) to POW
35   British Prepaid POW Card
36   Liberated Canadian POWs
37   H.M.C.S. Prince Robert



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