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Witnessed the massacre of St. Stephen's College

2021-09-03T12:17:06.093Z


The Canadian Consulate in Hong Kong issued an obituary on its Facebook page today (3rd), announcing that Dr. Zhai Baotian, a veteran who had participated in the Hong Kong defense war, died in Vancouver, Canada on the 22nd of last month at the age of 99. consulate


The Canadian Consulate in Hong Kong issued an obituary on its Facebook page today (3rd), announcing that Dr. Zhai Baotian, a veteran who had participated in the Hong Kong defense war, died in Vancouver, Canada on the 22nd of last month at the age of 99.

The consulate expressed regret over Zhai’s death. His funeral will be held on the 5th of this month and the remains will be placed in the Forest Lawn Funeral Home & Memorial Park in British Columbia.


Dr. Zhai Baotian, a veteran who had participated in the defense of Hong Kong, died in Vancouver, Canada on the 22nd of last month at the age of 99.

(Facebook picture of the Canadian Consulate in Hong Kong)

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Di Baotian was born and raised in Hong Kong. In 1937, the Japanese army invaded Hong Kong. He was only 15 years old and joined the Hong Kong St. John Ambulance with his father Di Daguang. Di Baotian was assigned to the military detachment and sent to the fort on Chaiwan Mountain. Stationed.

The Japanese army landed in Chai Wan. Di Baotian’s troops had to retreat in the direction of Shek O and Big Wave Bay on foot. While passing by an ambulance station for wounded soldiers, Di Baotian drove the wounded soldiers to Stanley for treatment. Raised the college, but at that time Zhai Baotian drove to the Stanley Fort by mistake.

On December 25, 1941, the then Governor of Hong Kong, Mark Aitchison Young, surrendered to the Japanese army. The next day Zhai Baotian followed the British governor to visit St. Stephen’s College and witnessed the massacre in the school’s hospital. The dead included soldiers and others. Including unarmed medical staff and teaching staff, Zhai Baotian escaped the massacre because he went to the wrong place, but became one of the few Hong Kong people who witnessed the scene of the massacre.

Zhai Baotian went to Guangzhou to study medicine in 1945 and became a surgeon after World War II. In the 1980s, his family moved to Vancouver.

(Online picture)

After the armistice, Zhai Baotian and other prisoners of war were escorted by the Japanese to a temporary prisoner of war camp in North Point. Three months later, they were transferred to the Sham Shui Po prisoner of war camp. All members of the injured team were shot in the camp, including its British officer Potter.

Zhai Baotian and 99 surviving campers signed a handkerchief to commemorate the handkerchief. This cultural relic was exhibited in the 2016 "War of Hong Kong" exhibition at the Canadian Military Museum and is now in a Canadian military museum.

Zhai Baotian went to Guangzhou to study medicine in 1945 and became a surgeon after World War II. In the 1980s, his family moved to Vancouver.

When the former Canadian Consul General in Hong Kong, Jeff Nankivell, attended the World War II memorial ceremony of the Burnaby Branch of the St. John's Ambulance Corps, he also shared Zhai Baotian's experience in World War II.

Last year Zhai Baotian received the World War II Tribute Award and badge from the Canadian Department of Veterans Affairs.

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