{"id":3437,"date":"2019-07-15T17:15:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T00:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/?p=3437"},"modified":"2025-11-05T14:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:37:13","slug":"frederick-lee-wwi-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/frederick-lee-wwi-soldier\/","title":{"rendered":"Frederick Lee – WWI soldier"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Frederick Lee- WWI Soldier<\/h3>

Help us support our ongoing work to discover and celebrate the life and sacrifice of\u00a0Freddy Lee,\u00a0one of the first\u00a0Chinese Canadians to die in service\u00a0to Canada. A fallen soldier. A forgotten hero.<\/p>

Learn more<\/a>\u00a0about his life and story.<\/p>

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Finding Frederick Lee: The inspirational story behind Canada\u2019s Last WWI Memorial. Oct. 2nd, 2019 will celebrate the opening of the Frederick Lee Walkway at Hill 70 in France, Canada\u2019s last WWI Memorial to be built.<\/p>

Private Frederick Lee is still missing in action in the north of France. This is the story of the lost soldier of the lost battalion of the forgotten Battle of Hill 70. In the summer of 2017, very little was known of Lee even within the Chinese Canadian Military Museum archives. In searching for Lee’s story, Vancouver entrepreneur Jack Gin unwittingly became the first person in 100+ years to travel to Kamloops, BC to look for this lost soldier … some 15,000 kms away from where his remains are presumed to be buried at Canada’s latest memorial of WW1.<\/p>

A story that went national on CBC (Briar Stewart) and on Global National News (Aaron McArthur), Jack Gin’s journey has been called “Finding Fred Lee”. This remarkable story has connected the historical dots from before Canada’s beginnings in 1861 to a future date of the 2nd of October 2019 when Senators, Heads of State and Military Veterans will gather at Hill 70 to witness the unveiling of the Rocky Mountain Ranger Plaza and Frederick Lee Walkway.<\/p>

The unveiling in France will be a significant event in Chinese Canadian history.
To honour Frederick Lee and our WWI soldiers, the Chinese Canadian Military Museum is donating a bench to be installed along the Frederick Lee Walkway.<\/p>

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Learn more about the efforts to find the missing pieces of Fred Lee’s story:<\/p>

Finding Fred Lee website<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

CBC The National<\/a><\/p>

InfoNews<\/a><\/p>

Global TV story<\/a><\/p>

Vancouver Sun<\/a><\/p>

Thank you to the following individuals who have supported our Frederick Lee project with\u00a0 donation or more:<\/p>

Platinum Donors ($100,000 +):<\/span><\/strong>
Robert H.N. Ho
Dr. Vivienne Poy
Sylvester Chuang<\/p>

The Sylvia and Jack Gin Foundation<\/p>

Gold Donors ($10,000 +):<\/span><\/strong>
Robert H. Lee Foundation<\/p>

Honourary Donors ($100 +):<\/span>
<\/strong><\/span>Andrew Altow
John Chalkias
David Choi
Clara Chow
Catherine Clement
Dick Eng
Ken Ferguson
Lisa Ferguson
Jack Gin
Louise Grutzmacher
Ted Hawthorne
Ed Ho
George Ing
Cynthia Kent
Ming Lam
Carol Lee
Esther Lee
Phil Lee
Robertson Lee
Henry Mark
Teresa Mew
Philippe Sutter
King Wan
Gwen Wong
Chu Wu
Ellen Yao
Hilbert Yiu
Mike Young
Don Blakely
Kevin Tyler
Kenneth Jyrkkanen
Terry & Lanni Shupe
Karin Sykes
Elizabeth Brown
Thomas Newell
Gerry Jones
Sharon Jones
Dave Hanna
Burton Lee
Rick Lam
Robertson Lee
Winnie Cheung
Philip Chow
Pennie George
Raymond Ho
Teresa Wat
Bill Diamond
David Wong<\/p>

Donors:<\/strong><\/span>
Daniel Chan
Aaron Chiang
Cpl Martin Goudreault
Cpl Johnson Huang
Eric Ip
Betty Koo
Richard Lee
WO Wayne Lysholm
Sarah Pang
Dennis Schroeder
MCpl Huynh Thu
WO Angus Todd
Pte Mike Underwood
LCol Will Watkins
Kevin Wong
Senator Yuen Pau Woo
Linda Xu
Xia Yang
Cynthia Yu
Kenneth & Anna Parkinson
Nancy Szastkiw
Micheal & Jesse Bosa
Daniel Martin
Bill Sarai
Mike O’Reilly
Dave Costain
Steve Filyk
Michael Lau
Sukh Gill
Ken Dhaliwal
Ed Ratuski
Wayne Wohlgemuth
Mike O’Doels
Dionne Normand
Howard Hewlett
Thomas Silva
Robert Peter bottos
Maggie Ip
April Morrison
Catherine Yuen
Betty Chin
Anar & Antalya Popatia<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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