Overview - A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong

Overview

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.

Cast

• Name: Terence McKenna

  Character: Narrator

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• Name: Andrew Tarbet

  Character: John Payne

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• Name: David Hewlett

  Character: Walter Jenkins

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• Name: Greg Spottiswood

  Character: John Stroud

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• Name: Brooke Johnson

  Character: Kay Christie

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• Name: Martin Julien

  Character: Les Canivet

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• Name: Andrew Miller

  Character: Ike Friesen

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• Name: Jeremy Ratchford

  Character: Fred Reich

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