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In July 1949 the first of such cemeteries, the Sandy Ridge (Urn) Cemetery near Lo Wu was approved, and burials commenced on 9th April 1950. In the financial year of 1950-51, the number of reburials (including temporary storage awaiting cremation) at Sandy Ridge (Urn) Cemetery was as high as 65,558.
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This was followed by the commissioning of the most important post-war cemetery, the Wo Hop Shek Cemetery, which was authorized on 27th February 1950. Burials in this cemetery commenced on 1 December in the same year. The cemetery was served by a branch of the Kowloon-Canton Railway, and coffins could be transported to the cemetery by railway hearse. In the financial year of 1951-52, 16,054 coffins were transported to the cemetery by the railway hearse.
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Name of Cemetery
Name of Cemetery Location Year Remarks Protestant Burial Ground Wan Chai 1841 Closed 1845, last graves removed 1889 Catholic Burial Ground Wan Chai 1842 *Colonial/Hong Kong Cemetery Happy Valley 1845 *Stanley Cemetery Stanley Earliest graves: 1843. Closed c. 1870, re-opened during the war. Renamed Stanley Military Cemetery after WWII. West Point Burial Ground St. Michael Catholic Cemetery Happy Valley 1848 *Parsee/Zoroastrian Cemetery Happy Valley 1852 *Jewish Cemetery Mid-Levels 1857 Appeared in a 1863 map. Details not known. Muslim/Mohammedan Cemetery Happy Valley Appeared by 1850s. Details not known. *Muslim/Mohammedan Cemetery Po Yan Street (Cemetery Street) 1870 Chinese Burial Ground Yau Ma Tei 1871 Chinese Cemetery Mount Davis 1882 Chinese Christian Cemetery Chai Wan 1882183
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