were awarded a total of 100 decorations. The following table shows the unit, the decoration and the number awarded. Decoration/award descriptions In order of precedence descriptions are as follows: VC - Victoria Cross DSO - Distinguished Service Order OBE - Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire status MBE - Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire status MC - Military Cross ARRC - Associate of the Royal Red Cross DCM - Distinguished Conduct Medal MM - Military Medal BEM - British Empire Medal DM - Dickin Medal MiD - Mentioned in Despatches References for the above awards Canada Gazette, 44 10 January, No. 10, Vol. 78, p2404 Canada Gazette, 46 8 April, No. 14, Vol. 80, p2066 Canada Gazette, 46 15 June, No. 24, Vol. 80, p2404 London Gazette, 48 20 February, No. 38212, p1175 Legacy Over the next four years, the number of Canadians who died as prisoners of the Japanese exceeded those who fell defending Hong Kong with starvation being the primary cause of death among the Canadian POWs. Brigadier-General Orville Kay who had once commanded the Winnipeg Grenadiers was sent to Chunking in August 1943 as the first Canadian military attache to China, where his primary concern was in finding what happened had to the POWs taken at Hong Kong. To assist with his work, Kay had Captain Morris Perrault attached to the British Army Aid Group operating in southern China. Surviving Canadian servicemen from this battle formed the Hong Kong Veterans Association. In December 1991 they planted two maple trees in Sham Shui Po Park in memory of their comrades. The deployment of C Force has been the object of immense controversy. Because the Battle of Hong Kong was an Allied defeat, there have been various efforts almost from the moment the battle ended to find a culprit to blame the defeat on. In 1948 a report by Christopher Maltby appeared in which he largely blamed C Force for the defeat. The report was censored by the order of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, who removed the "more inflammatory passages" from Maltby's report out of the fear of causing a crisis in Anglo-Canadian relations. The full uncensored version of Maltby's report did not become public until 1993. In a critique of Maltby's report, the British-born Canadian General Charles Foulkes who was serving