Contents

Foreword by Tony Banham, Ph.D.

Author’s Note

Preface

PART I: 1913–1942

1 There Was a Kindness in Him

2 The Golden Couple and the Phoney War

3 Canada’s Turn to Help: The “C” Force Mission

4 The “Vibration of Asia”: The Battle of Hong Kong

5 Prisoners of War: False Hopes as Contagious as Dysentery

6 Believed to Be Alive — Joy Overshadowed: The Home Front I

PART II: 1942–1945

7 The Secret Medical Diary: The Bitterness of Playing God

8 Tokyo Camp No. 5: “You Cannot Win This War!”

9 1944: Coping, Communicating, and the Candle Conspiracy

10 The Association of Relatives of Men at Hong Kong: The Home Front II

11 Allied Bombing Begins: The End of POW Camp Tokyo 3D

12 Sendai Camp 1B: Dignity and Disarmament

13 Safe in Allied Hands — A Time Outside of Time: The Home Front III

PART III: 1945–1994

14 Picking Up the Pieces: A Bunch of Canes

15 Vancouver and the Double Life: A Confusing Correspondence

16 The Domestic Tightrope of a Mentally Disturbed Man

17 A Simpler Daily Round: Peace at Last

18 Stricken: Past the Point of Marginal Reserve

19 In Search of Captain Reid: His Kind Testimony

Afterword

Acknowledgements

Notes

Bibliography

Image Credits

Map of Hong Kong, December 1941