This picture was taken just after a moving experience on the steps of the College  in which Al Babin and Flash recounted the story of the massacre.
Flash Clayton and Phil
This was taken in 2000 in front of the sign of St, Stephen's College where the Christmas Day massacre took place. Flash was in the emergency hospital at the time because of wounds sustained earlier and narrowly escaped being killed.
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The massacre was one of the most horrific episodes in the whole invasion of the Colony. I lost  good friends who were killed at St. Stephens,among them, Bill Fallow and Euclid Cyr.
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Henry Lyons
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Pat Poirier
Pat lives in Montreal and is a regular at all our reunions. Pat played in the Regimental band and was also a nurse. He has written and account of his experiences.
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Henry was a member of 17 Platoon. He and I were together throughout prison camp.and still see each other often.
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Henry served as Regional Director of the Q-M Branch for many years.
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Flash and Ossie were both sergeants in the RRC.
Flash and wife Jessie have always been faithful attendees at our reunions. Flash always acts as parade marshall, a time when his happy manner and story telling are put aside and he demands strict discipline and respectful attention to the parade and the cenotaph ceremony.He has influenced some beneficial changes in the Hong Kong Veterans Association.
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Ossie Clark is an old friend from days when we both worked in Sept-Iles. Since then we have carried on the friendship through the Quebec-Maritimes Branch where he has held many offices up to first vice-president.
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He has held many positions in the Royal Canadian Legion and is one of the main supporters of the Lennoxville Branch of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Association.
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There are a thousand other pictures of comrades who shared those evil days  from December, 1941 to Augist 1945. Those cherished pictures exist for me only in my memory. They will be there as long as I live.
Ed Rodrigues was from St. Kitts Island in the Carribean. I remember the long walks we used to take up and down the main road in ShamShuiPo.

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Tommy Thompson was from Shoal Lake, Manitoba. We became friends while we were patient/orderlies in the hospital in ShamShuiPo.
Joe and Jim Furey were from Manitoba. Joe died in Japan, Jim survived and returned to Canada. He died several years ago.
Omar Runnels. We called him "The Greek". Why, I don't know. He was a unique character. Laughing with him helped to pass many hours.
Glyn Chipping was also a patient in the hospital. Associating with him helped to influence me to return to school after liberation. I still see him now and then at reunions in Winnipeg.
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Bert Woodman also spent the years of imprisonment in ShamShuiPo. He had been wounded at Repulse Bay and bore the scar on the back of his neck the rest of his life. In the POW camp he used to sharpen blades for Dr. Ashton-Rose for performing operations.
Most of these friends have long since gone to their individual rewards.
Whatever that may be, " We will remember them."
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