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A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong( 1992)

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The Valour and the Horror

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The documentary, using the dramatization of fact, makes the case that the Canadian government knowingly sent two unprepared infantry battalions to help defend Hong Kong in late 1941, fully aware that they may have been on a doomed mission. The C Force, consisting of about 2000 soldiers from the Winnipeg Grenadiers and the Royal Rifles of Canada (from Quebec City) were, with the other British, Indian and Hong Kong troops, attacked on December 8, 1941 and overwhelmed by Japanese troops, leading to numerous casualties and the surrender on Christmas day. The Canadians would spend more than 3 and half years as prisoners of war, in horrible conditions. Part of "The Valour and the Horror" mini series.

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      Terence McKenna

      Narrator

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      Andrew Tarbet

      John Payne

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      David Hewlett

      Walter Jenkins

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      Greg Spottiswood

      John Stroud

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      Brooke Johnson

      Kay Christie

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      Martin Julien

      Les Canivet

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      Andrew Miller

      Ike Friesen

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      Jeremy Ratchford

      Fred Reich

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      Robert Clayton

      Self (Royal Rifles of Canada) (as Bob Clayton)

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      Robert Manchester

      Self (Winnipeg Grenadiers) (as Bob Manchester)

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    Original Language

    English

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    Keywords

    • hong kong
    • canadian army
    • war
    • christmas day