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Shum Wan Cemetery 

Aberdeen 

1938 

There had been another 

*New Kin Inland Lot No. 2662 

(St. Raphael's) Catholic Cemetery War Emergency Cemeteries *Sai Wan Military/War Cemetery Prison Cemetery 

*Sandy Ridge Cemetery 

*Wo Hop Shek Cemetery 

*Cheung Chau Catholic Cemetery 

*Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 

*Chinese Permanent Cemetery Cape Collinson 

*Muslim Cemetery 

*Buddhist Cemetery 

*Military Cemetery 

*Chinese Permanent Cemetery 

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cemetery in Shum Wan in 

1920s, details of which is 

not known. Removal of all 

urns was ordered 1949. 

Earliest graves: 1941. 

Piper's Hill 

1941-45 

Refer to the article. 

Cape Collinson 1947 Stanley 

Lo Wu 

1947 

1949 

Wo Hop Shek 

1950 

Cheung Chau 

Earliest graves: 1957. 

Cape Collinson 

Earliest graves: 1960. 

Earliest graves: 1963. 

Cape Collinson 1963 

Cape Collinson 

Earliest graves: 1964. 

Cape Collinson 1967 

Tseung Kwan O 1989 

* Cemeteries still known to be in existence. 

Appendix 2 

1. Distribution of lots at Sandy Ridge Cemetery 

Coffin section: 

1. General 

2. Roman Catholic 

3. Little Sisters of the Poor 

4. Tung Wah 

Urn section: 

1. General 2. Tung Wah 3. Chiu Chow 

4. Yan Ping 

5. Chung Shan 

6. Hok Shan 

7. Sun Wui 

8. Tsang Shing 9. Fukien
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cleared vegetation and debris from the dugout. The project, “The repaving of the walking trail leading to Pau Toi San,” commenced on January 28, 2002, and was completed on May 17 of the same year. The total cost was HK$560,000.* Most unfortunately, such a recent repaving endeavour completely destroyed the old military path that linked the Gough Battery and the 196m site by widening and resurfacing the old path with cement. The repaving work also removed the original stone retaining walls that were used to stabilise part of the slopes along the path. To reach Gough Battery today on foot, one may follow what is now designated Section 3 of the Lord Wilson Trail from an access road to the Tseung Kwan O Chinese Permanent Cemetery. Before upgrading in connection with the development of the cemetery, this access road was part of the old Anderson Road, the only metalled road in East Kowloon until the urbanisation of the area. The Pottinger Battery is located below a platform formed during the period 1973 to 1978 below the access road to the cemetery.

This note shall confine itself to the first and third sites, as the other two sites merit further archive and on-site research. The major survey findings of these two sites are presented here in the form of two measured drawings (Figures 3 and 4, reproduced with dimensions omitted).

It should be noted that better information on the physical forms of the sites and the military structures exists beyond that found in the existing literature or public documents locally deposited in the Public Records Office and the survey plans and aerial photographs produced or possessed by Lands Department.

General history of the military sites on Devil's Peak

A chronology of events relating to the Devil's Peak is provided in Appendix 1. As early as 1899, the idea of developing three batteries on Devil's Peak at three levels was expressed in military drawings. The highest site, 'Battery for 6-inch', eventually became Devil's Peak Redoubt, whereas the middle, 'Battery for 9.2-inch,' and the lowest site became Gough Battery and Pottinger Battery, respectively.

According to Rollo (1992), the Gough Battery, like the Pottinger Battery, had been proposed by the British Committee on Armament on
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