Portait of Victor E. Wong, 1944

Photo of Victor E. Wong taken in Vancouver, B.C. before departing overseas. Wong is dressed in his army attire. When war was declared in 1939, 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. Scanned for Victor E. Wong/Chinese Veteran's collection. Derivative made April 13, 2012.

In Collection:

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

Contributor

• Yang, Charles

Subject

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

Identifier

• vew_0120

Date created

• April 13, 2012

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Extent

• 1 black and white photograph

Geographic coverage

• British Columbia--Vancouver

Coordinates

• 49.24966, -123.11934

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
• portraits
• 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/mc6g-3841

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