THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1957.
REMEMBRANCE
How many foul this moment when memory and story combine to bring back those who "shall not grow old." They were men who found something more important to live for than just life. They were-men who left for this face in the crowd a heritage that “his '. clenched handt show he does not just take for granted.
Free Church, Anglican, and Roman Catholic join in ono service on what was a battlefield, as Hongkong's now "three-storey car pork rises to fill in the background on what was once the sea.
"At Wongnelchong Gap (left) St John Ambulance gathers for remembrance ot a scone that once was red with their own members' blood-killed in a massacro that even the Japanese commandoré struggled to disown,
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And as families and church congregations listen by radio to the central service at the cenotaph, the troops and service, families on Gun Club Hill are gathered for their own remembrance.
While (right) young buglers of Stanley Training Contre sound the, Last Post over Stanley Cemetery.' (Below, right) Mr G. R. Pickett has just placed a wreath in front of the cometery headstones.
And the How Police Headquarters, joins in remembering a battle it was not, there to sea,,, as Mr.A. C. Maxwell, : Commissioner of Police, reads out the names of members of the Hongkong Constabulary who gave their lives in 'tha STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS
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