Born in Victoria in 1921, George Chow enlisted in the Army in 1940 and took basic training at Seaforth Armoury in Vancouver. He then joined the 16th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery in Windsor, Ontario and from there was assigned to a base at Colchester, England. It was near there that his all-Canadian crew shot down the first German plane on English soil.
After his discharge in 1945, he signed up for the Reserves in 1953 and retired 12 years later as a battery sergeant major.
He was presented with the Normandy Campaign 1944 Medal at a Chinese Canadian Military Museum dinner in November 2006.
George passed away on November 6, 2020 — one day after he celebrating his 99th birthday.
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- George Chow in England