
Captain Stanley M. Banfill Returns Home from the Far East, Montreal, Quebec, 13 October 1945.
Canadian soldiers had no opportunity for victory in the battle for Hong Kong. The rough terrain was strategically isolated and tactically difficult to defend. The enemy soldiers were battle-hardened veterans, and they vastly outnumbered the Canadian troops and their Commonwealth allies. Despite the formidable odds, the Allies fought valiantly until they were forced to surrender. Canada suffered 290 dead and 493 wounded. A total of 1,685 soldiers were captured and subsequently languished under appalling conditions in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps; 264 of these would die in the camps.
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