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Remembrance Day Sai Wan War Cemetery

Item number (ISN):

387445

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1994-11-11

Item number (ISN):

387445

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CHRÉTIEN, Jean

Accession:

2008-0018

Media:

Video

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1994-11-11

Production company:

Prime Minister's Office - Press Office

Description:

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Edited coverage of a Remembrance Day ceremony at the Sai Wan War Cemetery in Hong Kong. Includes an inspection of the Royal Gurkha Rifles by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, interviews of veterans from the Battle of Hong Kong during the Second World War, a religious service, music with military horns and bagpipes, ceremonial gunshots, images of Jean Chrétien, Governor of Hong Kong Christopher Patten, the national president of the veterans association of Hong Kong Roger Cyr, and the Major General [Brian Dutton], commanding officer of the British Armed Forces in Hong Kong, leaving flowers at the Cross of Sacrifice. Also includes speeches by the chair of Canada Remembers, Jean-Guy Chapman, a veteran of the Battle of Hong Kong, Phillip Doddrige, who recites the Act of Remembrance, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien regarding the young and inexperienced Canadian soldiers who fought this battle and the story of John Robert Osborn who received posthumously the Victoria Cross, and Roger Cyr regarding the maturity forced upon the young soldiers and the remembrance for the dead. <46mn 58s>

Language:

English / Français

Original number:

CMM52

Notes:

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1. Identification based on tape label and auditioning.~2. The tape label gives the date of March 6, 1995, although it was shot November 11, 1994.~3. End credits consist of the names of all Canadian soldiers buried in Asia during World War Two and the names of the Canadian Premiers who also left flowers at the Cross but were not shown in the document.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

459710

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V7 2008-10-0316

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

46:58

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

808414

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

387445.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V7 2008-10-0316

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

808415

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

387445.MP4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V7 2008-10-0316

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

902489

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

387445.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V7 2008-10-0316

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

902490

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

387445.MP4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V7 2008-10-0316

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Donor restrictions:

The permission of the donor, Jean Chrétien, is required to reproduce this material.

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright rests with the Crown.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of Jean Chrétien

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