Victor E. Wong and his comrade

Shows Victor Wong and his comrade. 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

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

Identifier

• vew_0104

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Extent

• 1 black and white photograph

Geographic coverage

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

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

• This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/szz6-3c68

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