C Force Reports and Stats - Battle Casualties

The following tables provide information on the number of battle casualties in each unit experienced during the Battle for Hong Kong in December 1945.

Date	Unit	KIA	MIA	DOW	Wounded	Totals
BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS
8
	RCCS				2	2
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
	RCAPC				1	1
	RCCS				1	1
19
	Bde	1			1	2
	CMSC	1	2		1	4
	RCAPC				1	1
	RCASC	1	3		2	6
	RCCS	2	1			3
	RCOC		2			2
20
	Bde			1	1	2
	RCAPC	1				1
	CPC				1	1
	RCOC				1	1
21
22
	Bde		1			1
	CCS				1	1
	RCCS	1				1
23
	RCASC				2	2
	RCCS	1				1
24
	RCOC		1		1	2
25
	CAS				1	1
	RCASC		1		1	2
	RCCS				2	2

POW
	RCCS			1		1

Unknown
	CDC				1	1
	RCCS				1	1

	Totals	8	11	2	22	43

Brigade Headquarters Battle Casualty Rates
Units				No. in Unit at Start of Battle	Deaths	Wounded	Overall
Bde	Brigade Headquarters			4	75.0%	50.0%	125.0%
CAS	Canadian Auxiliary Services			2		50.0%	50.0%
CCS	Canadian Chaplain Services			3		50.0%	50.0%
CDC	Canadian Dental Corps			7		14.3%	14.3%
CPC	Canadian Postal Corps			3		33.3%	33.3%
CProC	Canadian Provost Corps			8
CMSC	Corps of Military Staff Clerks			5	60.0%	20.0%	80.0%
RCAMC	The Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps			6
RCAPC	The Royal Canadian Army Pay Corps			7	14.3%	28.6%	42.9%
RCASC	The Royal Canadian Army Service Corps			17	29.4%	29.4%	58.8%
RCCS	The Royal Canadian Corps of Signals			33	18.2%	18.2%	36.4%
RCOC	The Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps			10	30.0%	30.0%	60.0%
Number that particpated in the Battle				105	20.0%	21.9%	41.9%

NOTE:	The overall rate may in some cases be higher because soldiers would have been wounded and died of their wounds. No effort was made to correct for this situation.

1st Battalion THE ROYAL RIFLES OF CANADA
Date		KIA	MIA	DOW	Wounded	Totals
8
9					1	1
10					1	1
11					1	1
12					3	3
13					1	1
14
15
16					11	11
17
18					5	5
19		5	11		16	32
20			2		10	12
21		1	7	1	22	31
22		3	16		32	51
23		2	36		23	61
24		1	2		9	12
25		10	14	2	68	94
26			11	1		12
27
28
29
30

POW				5		5
Unknown					99	99

Totals		22	99	9	302	432

Unit Casualty Rates
No. in Unit at Start of Battle			960
KIA rate			2.3%
MIA rate			10.3%
DOW rate			0.9%
Overall Death rate			13.5%
Wounded rate			31.4%
Overall Casualty Rate			45.0%

NOTE:	The overall rate may in some cases be higher because soldiers would have been wounded and died of their wounds. No effort was made to correct for this situation.

1st Battalion THE WINNIPEG GRENADIERS
Date		KIA	MIA	DOW	Wounded	Totals
8
9
10
11
12					3	3
13			1			1
14					1	1
15					2	2
16					3	3
17
18					7	7
19		2	61		101	164
20		1	16		45	62
21		4	18		22	44
22		2	8		34	44
23		3	2		12	17
24			3		27	30
25		4	3	1	51	59
26
27
28
29				2		2
30

POW				3		3
Unknown					26	26

Totals		16	112	6	334	468

Unit Casualty Rates
No. in Unit at Start of Battle			911
KIA rate			1.8%
MIA rate			12.3%
DOW rate			70.0%
Overall Death rate			14.7%
Wounded rate			36.7%
Overall Casualty Rate			51.4%

NOTE:	The overall rate may in some cases be higher because soldiers would have been wounded and died of their wounds. No effort was made to correct for this situation.
NOTES:
KIA	Killed in action
MIA	Missing in action
DOW	Died of wounds
POW	this denotes number of soldiers who died of wounds while prisoners of war
Wounded	the numbers listed here also include soldiers who were wounded multiple times
REFERENCES:
1.	Data was extracted from a database of individual soldiers of 'C' Force
2.	Commonwealth War Graves Commission
3.	"Canadian Prisoners of War and Missing Personnel in the Far East"; King's Printer; H.Q.S. 9050-14-15, Corrected 18 September 1945
4.	Lieutenant Colonel W.J. Home Diary

C Force Reports and Stats - Battle Casualties

BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS

Brigade Headquarters Battle Casualty Rates

1st Battalion THE ROYAL RIFLES OF CANADA

1st Battalion THE WINNIPEG GRENADIERS