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The following story appears courtesy of and with thanks to Ronald Parker and Father
Major Maurice Albert Parker:

Sai Wan Bay Memorial Cemetery
These are our dead, these shattered men who lie beneath this sod, and we shall long remember them.
They are in our thoughts, and in our hearts we know they are whole, and live ... in peace with God.
Ronald Parker, 2001
There is a memorial erected on the island of Hong Kong, at Sai Wan Bay Cemetery. Carved on panels of Portland stone are 2,071 names. Of those, 283 are the names of Canadian Soldiers who died in the defense of Hong Kong, in December of 1941, 107 of them ore unidentified. The dedication panel reads,
The officers and men whose memory is honoured here
died in the defense of Hong Kong in December 1941
and in the ensuing years of captivity and
have no known grave.
It faces North, towards the mainland, from whence the attack on Hong Kong was launched. The view is magnificent. The land slopes gently towards the sea, giving a vista of the glittering water, the coastline, and the distant hills. Just beyond the village of Stanley, on the Tai Tam Peninsula is Stanley Military Cemetery in which lie twenty more Canadians, one of them unknown.
In Memory of The Soldiers of "D" Company or the Royal Rifles of Canada
who died in Hong Kong, Japan, or at home.
They are heroes all.

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