Victor E. Wong and comrades in India

Shows Victor Wong and three of his comrades in India. During the World War II, more than 600 Chinese Canadians volunteered to fight for Canada. They became part of an elite unit known as the Special Force 136 of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the South East Asia Combat (SEAC) under Lord Mountbatten.

In Collection:

• Victoria’s Chinatown, a gateway to the past and present of Chinese Canadians

Subject

• World War (1939-1945)
• Immigrants
• Great Britain. Special Operations Executive
• Wong, Victor Eric

Identifier

• vew_0085

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Extent

• 1 black and white photograph

Geographic coverage

• British Columbia--Victoria
• British Columbia--Victoria--Chinatown

Coordinates

• 48.4359, -123.35155
• 48.4294, -123.3679

Physical repository

• Wong, Victor Eric

Collection

• Victoria’s Chinatown, a gateway to the past and present of Chinese Canadians

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• black-and-white photographs
• photographs

Is referenced by

• Victoria's Chinatown Project Website: https://chinatown.library.uvic.ca/index.html

Date digitized

• 2012

Technical note

• Priority images January 7 spreadsheet. Cataloguing metadata provided by MH. Migration metadata by MT.

Rights

• These images are for research purposes only. These images are provided with the consent of Victor E. Wong and cannot be reproduced or copied without permission. For more information, contact Dr. Zhongping Chen at zhchen@uvic.ca

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/w8pp-yx17

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