This year marks the 80th anniversary of the capitulation of Japan and the end of a world conflict that cost more than 45,000 Canadian soldiers.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the capitulation of Japan and the end of a world conflict that cost more than 45,000 Canadian soldiers.
Photo: Canadian press / Sean Kilpatrick
Sweat was flowing on the faces of people gathered in the heat of August, while the bug of the Canadian Armed Forces played the ringing of the dead.
Michael Babin, president of the Commemorative Association of Veterans of the Battle of Hong Kong, says that there is no more veteran living among the some 2000 Canadians who participated in the lost battle of Hong Kong in 1941.
He specifies that the last veteran known to this battle died just over a year and a half ago at the age of 106.
Mr. Babin claims that it is important to remember this brutal battle and to think about it, because those who lived it are no longer there to tell their story.
