Rebecca Chan Chung

Rebecca Chan Chung 鍾陳可慰
Born	June 1920 Guangzhou, China
Died	December 2011 Toronto, Canada
Resting place	Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Canada
Residence	Hong Kong, Toronto, Shanghai, Calcutta
Citizenship	China, United Kingdom, Canada
Nationality	Chinese, Canadian
Fields	Nursing
Institutions	Flying Tigers, United States Army, China National Aviation Corporation, Tung Wah Group of Hospitals
Alma mater	Diocesan Girls' School, Queen Mary Hospital (Hong Kong), College of Nursing in Australia
Notable awards	United States World War II medals, Fellow of College of Nursing in Australia
Spouse	Leslie Wah-Leung Chung (1945-2009)
Children	2

Rebecca Chan Chung (鍾陳可慰), professionally known as Rebecca Chan (陳可慰), (1920-2011) was a United States World War II veteran (nurse) with the Flying Tigers and the United States Army in China. As a nurse with the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) during World War II, she flew over The Hump for about 50 times. After World War II, she became a nursing educator and a leader of the nursing profession in Hong Kong.

Rebecca Chan Chung was born in the David Gregg Hospital for Women & Children (also known as Yiji Hospital located on Duo Bao Road in Guangzhou, China, during the Warlord Era. She was the second child of her parents. Her mother, Lee Sun Chau (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 (1883-1965), was a revolutionary under Sun Yat-sen in the Chinese Revolution of 1911 and was a Senator of Guangzhou in the 1920s.

Rebecca Chan Chung graduated from St. Paul’s Girls’ School (primary school, currently St. Paul's Co-educational College) in Hong Kong in 1933. In 1938, she graduated from Diocesan Girls' School (secondary school) in Hong Kong, when Miss H.D. Sawyer was the Headmistress.

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