1947-07-05 — Page 11

TELEGRAPH

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY

1947.

NEWSREEL

01.11

CANADIAN DEFENDERS OF HONGKONG

REBURIED AT SAIWAN

to

On Tuesday lost, Dominion Day, the Canadian Section of the Military Comotory at the Saiwan was dedicated at a solemn and Impressive ceremony which marked the re-committal of the remains of 300 Canadian soldiers of the 1st Winnipeg Grenadiers and the Royal Rifios of Canada who were killed in the Battle of Hongkong in December 1941 or died subsequently in prison

camps. The ceremony took place in drenching rain. Centre picture at the top of the page shows the flag of Canada flying beside the temporary momorial where wreaths were laid by Government and Service hoads and other citizens. Pictures at loft (top to bottom): Government and Service chiefs paying homage the war doad... From loft to right: Commodore D. H. Everett, representing Royal Navy; Brigadier F. H. C. Rogers, representing the Army: Air Commodore 8. N.. Webster, representing the Royal Air Force; Lt-Col. J. A. Ballie, representing Canadian War Graves Commis-- sion; and the Hon Mr D., M. MacDougall, Officer Administering the Government, representing the Government and people of Hongkong. 2. Rev. G. H. Lipscombe, Senior Chaplain to the Forcos, and Rev. R. Woods conducting the service, protected from the rain by a Chinese umbrella. 3: The United States Consel- General, Mr Goorgo D. Hopper, laying a wreath. Pictures at right (top to bottom): 1. Funoral firing party provid- ed by the Hongkong Volunteer Defenco Corps, who fought shoulder to shoulder with the Canadians and shared the trials of intern ment. 2. General view of the Cemetery. 3, Commodore Everett laying a wreath: ",

(Pictures by Ming Yuen and Francis Wu)

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