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Name : Marilyn Melsness
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Comment : My father was Barney Melsness.
I was 4 years old in 1948 when we lived at the Vancouver Hotel.We settled in Burnaby and NewWestminster for about 2 years
before moving to Windsor.
Barney was a Superintendant at Ford Oakville
until his retirement.
Bar
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Name : R Bruce Wareing
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Comment : Served with the Strathcoma,s Horse in Korea we shall always remember these brave service men and women who did their Duty dies and suffered there in Hong Kong,you have done a fine thing on this project
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Name : frank jiggins jr
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Comment : my father was also a hong kong pow sent to sham shui po pow camp and i am very interested in any info i can get on my father and any1 else who went through what they did as a kid growing up i heard my fsther late into the night crying out but as u must kn
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Name : Bill Qualtrough, Scarborough ON
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Comment : My dad, Sgt. Bob Qualtrough was Paymaster Sergeant for the Grenadiers in Jamaica and back in Canada. Fortunately he missed going to Hong Kong. I lived for a while in Calgary with my Uncle, Alex McFadyen who was a prisoner in Hong Kong but would never talk
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Name : William
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Comment : I am a Hong Kong Chinese. My parents lived through those terrible three years of Japanese occupation when they were teenagers. I would like to thank the Canadians and all those who have helped fight the Japanese. Let us strive for peace!
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Name : Ellen Welsh MacAusland
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Comment : Hello
My father Ernest E. Welsh was a pow at ShamShuiPo and Omine, Japan. He died in 1993. Like you we are trying to keep the memory alive. I enjoyed reading about your grandfather. My son just did a heritage fair on the Battle of Hong Kong and his gra
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Name : Constance (Conni Larsen) nee Kenneth Hogarth
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Comment : Hello my father Private Kenneth Hogarth was also a POW..He served in the Winnipeg Grenadiers ...going first to Jamaica...then on to Hong Kong....He is still alive at the young age of 90...He will be 91 in October....the most wonderful person I have ever k
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Name : stephen liu
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Comment : I had bought a POW mail of E. Hodkinson on Ebay auction.Quite amazing to learn something from your grandfather during the WWII in Hong Kong.FYI. I came to Canada From Hong Kong since 1990.
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Name : Holly
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Comment : I was pleasantly surprised to find your web site -- Irene Pilgrim was my grandmothers 1st cousin, and I was searching the internet to find her husbands first name for my family tree. What a great idea to put your family story online to share with other ge
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Name : Tim Hodkinson
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Comment : I think the Hong Kong veterans endured the greatest hardship and suffering in Canadian history. They will not be forgotten because their story is unforgetable.
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