Stanley Military Cemetery

Stanley Military Cemetery
Stanley Military Cemetery in 2010
Map
Details
Established1841; 183 years ago (1841)
Location
Wong Ma Kok Road, Stanley, Hong Kong
CountryHong Kong
TypeBritish Military
Owned byCommonwealth War Graves Commission (governing body)
No. of graves427[1]
Find a GraveStanley Military Cemetery
Stanley Military Cemetery
Traditional Chinese赤柱軍人墳場
Simplified Chinese赤柱军人坟场
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinChìzhù Jūnrén Fénchǎng
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationChek chyúh gwān yàhn fàhn
JyutpingCek3 cyu5 gwan1 jan4 fan4 coeng4
An example of an early burial of soldier's family at the Stanley Military Cemetery
Grave of one Mary Williamson, who died in the Stanley Camp and a cenotaph memorial for her grandson, Lance Corporal Douglas H. Collins-Taylor of Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corp., who was killed in action at Stanley Village. That grave has given some hints of the final stage of the 1941 defence.
Graves of the people who died in the Stanley Camp. Their fellow prisoners used whatever stone they could get for headstones.

Stanley Military Cemetery is a cemetery located near St. Stephen's Beach in Stanley, Hong Kong. Along with the larger Hong Kong (Happy Valley) Cemetery, it is one of two military cemeteries of the early colonial era, used for the burials of the members of the garrison and their families between 1841 and 1866. There were no further burials here until World War II (1939–1945).

The cemetery is roughly triangular in shape and stands on ground rising sharply from the road side. It is approached by a flight of steps leading up to the Cross of Sacrifice with steep grassy slopes on either side.

  1. ^ "Cemetery Details". CWGC. Retrieved 11 October 2012.