Gallant Garden
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Gallant Garden (Traditional Chinese: 浩園), in Wo Hop Shek Public Cemetery at Wo Hop Shek, Hong Kong, was established in 1996 for civil servants who die on duty. In 2000, permanent earth burial was extended to both civil servants and non-civil servants who died with exceptional bravery while on duty. There is also a big Buddhist-Taoist monastery built near the cemetery.
The majority of those interred are police officers and firefighters killed on duty, but several medical personnel who contracted and died from SARS while treating sufferers from the disease are also buried in the cemetery.
Vandalism to 29 gravestones at Gallant Garden was discovered on 12 August 2006.[1] The identity and motive of the vandal(s) remains unknown.
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