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