Memory

 This is the service jacket of Sergeant Leonard Wood, who was a prisoner of war after the Battle of Hong Kong and survived the war. The distinctive red badge on the arm was issued to those survivors.

Leonard Corrigan was also a survivor of the POW camps. He kept a diary, and worried about how his family was doing back home.

William Allister had been deeply affected by his time as a POW in Japanese camps, left feeling deeply hostile towards the Japanese. He found healing and peace in a trip to Japan in the 1980s, and from that expressed himself in writing and in art.

This is one of his paintings. Returning As A Bird dates to 1983.

These are from the scrapbook of Helen Rochon, who served in the war in the Canadian Women's Army Corps.