Born in London, ON, his next of kin when he enlisted was his sister, Helen Wong whose address was the Byron Sanitorium in Byron, ON.

After a few months of training there the group was sent to Australia for more training but that mission, was scrapped.  Operation Oblivion was scrapped because the Americans objected to having British intelligence operatives inserted into their area of control and working with communist guerillas.

Henry participated in a second mission, titled Operation Hippo, which consisted of 4 of the original 13 (Force 136) volunteers.  This mission, Operation Hippo, began before the Japanese surrender, and its purpose was to organize a guerilla resistance of the Iban, who were in Austronesian ethnic group of headhunters indigenous to the island of Borneo, against the Japanese.  They gathered intelligence, including the state of Commonwealth POWs, and conducted combat patrols against the Japanese. It was only after the surrender on August 15 that their mission turned to freeing & organizing relief for the POWs, and to assist with maintaining law and order, particularly with respect to Japanese soldiers.

Until recently, the men’s service in Force 136 was not acknowledged because they were engaged in secret intelligence operations that came under the Official Secrets Act. Details of their activities were only declassified decades later.

To read more, visit the link:  https://www.ccmms.ca/veteran-stories/army/henry-albert-hank-wong/   

 

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