Rebecca Chan Chung (Chinese: 鍾陳可慰; professionally known as Rebecca Chan, Chinese: 陳可慰; June 27, 1920 – December 7, 2011) was an American military nurse who served with the Flying Tigers and the United States Army in China during World War II.
As a nurse with the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC), she flew over The Hump approximately fifty times.
Her mother, Lee Sun Chau 周理信 (1890–1979), was one of the earliest Chinese female doctors of Western Medicine in China and was a resident physician in the David Gregg Hospital for Women and Children at the time of the birth of Rebecca Chan Chung.
Her father, Po-Yin Chan (陳步賢) (1883–1965),[3][4] was a revolutionary under Dr. Sun Yat-sen in the Chinese Revolution of 1911 and was a Senator of Guangzhou in the 1920s.
The certificate was signed by Principal Matron Alice Mary Davies[7] and Director of Medical Services Sir Percy Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke.
In Hong Kong, she headed the large nursing school of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals as its Sister Tutor-in-Charge from 1964 to 1975.
[23] Rebecca Chan married Leslie Wah-Leung Chung 鍾華亮 (1917–2009) in the Old Mission Church,[24] Calcutta, India, on July 7, 1945.
This Incident was instrumental in uniting the Chinese people to fight against the Japanese invasion in World War II.
[23] In August 1945, about 1.5 months after the wedding, Leslie Wah-Leung Chung left his bride and Calcutta to study Economics at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States.
Their combined military burial took place in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, on Easter Saturday, April 7, 2012.