Friends of the Somme - Mid Ulster Branch
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Location
Region : Hong Kong,  China
Latitude : 22.27167
Lontitude : 114.17966
CWGC Link : 49429
This is a large civilian cemetery formerly called Hong Kong (Happy Valley) Cemetery, and still known locally as such. It is situated on Hong Kong Island on the western side of Wong Nei Chong Road, directly opposite the main entrance to the Happy Valley Racecourse.

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Cookstown Casualties
No     Rank Name Service No Regiment / Service Date Of Death Grave Ref
1 Portrait Artificer Lyttle, Samuel M/13779 Royal Navy 28/07/1918 21A. 8297
Cemetery History
In November 1914, the German leased territory of Tsingtao in north-east China was captured by the Japanese, supported by a small contingent of Commonwealth forces on land and sea.
Military hospitals in Kowloon and Hong Kong received the sick and wounded from this fighting and later, from German prison camps. Throughout the First World War, Hong Kong was garrisoned by local defence and Commonwealth forces.
During the Second World War, Hong Kong fell to Japanese forces on Christmas Day 1941 following a brief but intense period of fighting. Most of those buried or commemorated on the island were killed at this time, or died later as internees or prisoners of war during the Japanese occupation.
Hong Kong Cemetery, a large civil burial ground, contains 79 scattered Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 62 from the Second.
Cemetery Links
No Link Reference Doc
1 Findagrave.com Gravestone photos
2 Hong Kong Cemetery website Details of cemetery
3 Hong Kong Memory Details of cemetery
4 War Graves Photo Project War Graves Photographic Project
5 Wikipedia - Hong Kong Cemetery Details of cemetery