HILLMAN  WWII SCRAPBOOK
HMCS PRINCE ROBERT
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WWII HONG KONG
 III. THE RETURN OF HMCS PRINCE ROBERT
Liberation of Hong Kong ~ Part I: Voyage and Arrival

Scrapbook pages accompanying:
http://www.airmuseum.ca/rcn/robert02.html
http://www.airmuseum.ca/rcn/robert03.html
August 15 1945, after 44 months Japanese occupation,
British Forces returned to HK with the Canadian and Australian Forces.
HMCS Prince Robert passing under the Lion's Gate Bridge, BC.Enemy Artillery Fire in the Philippines
 


HMCS Prince Robert joins the British Pacific Fleet Task Force
They sail from Philippines to take over Hong Kong


View of Hong Kong area from a RAF aircraft


William R. L. Lore
First Chinese Canadian officer first to land in Hong Kong


Prince Robert crew observing turmoil in Hong Kong


Canadian landing party ready to go ashore at Kowloon


Arrival of HMCS Prince Robert Aug 30, 1945


 HMCS Prince Robert, next to the pier
during the Hong Kong Liberation in August 1945


Hong Kong citizens cheer
the arrival of RCN's HMCS Prince Robert


US landing craft with
ex POW Quebec Rifles and Jesuit Missionaries


Ex-POW being helped aboard
the Prince Robert from a US landing barge.


Ex-POW stretcher case
coming aboard the Prince Robert


Receiving the wounded


Prince Robert landing party banner


First landing party
on a wrecked pier/bridge wrecked bridge


Landing platoon sending Chinese back
across a damaged pier/bridge at Kowloon


Hong Kong Pier Loading


Russian orchestra from Kowloon
playing in forward rec space

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