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 November 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. It has an area of 1,600 m² (17,200 ft²) and is currently maintained by Food and Environmental Hygiene Department. It has 110 land burial spaces, 165 urn spaces, and a columbarium of 120 niches.^[1] There is also a large 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.^[2] The identity and motive of the vandal(s) remains unknown. This incident exposed that the Gallant Garden has lax security; there are no closed-circuit security cameras installed at the site.

[edit] Bodies buried in Gallant Garden

1. 1983 關耀煇 (died at 27)：Traffic police officer killed in a traffic accident during duty
2. 1987 陳潤良 (died at 30)：Firefighter captain fallen during a blaze in Tsuen Wan
3. 1990 岑凱傑 (died at 25)：Police officer killed by a suspect in Mei Foo Sun Chuen^[3]
4. 1996 廖熾鴻 (died at 41)：Firefighter died during a fire in Garley Building. ^[4]
5. 1997 吳禮光 (died at 35)：Firefighter died during training.
6. 1998 王永基 (died at 39)：Chief Inspector of Police died during annual physical training examination
7. 1998 陳阿文 (died at 50)：A staff from the Marine Department died from an accidental fall during work at Stonecutters Island
8. 1998 黃英才 (died at 39)：Acting senior Customs officer died from an accidental fall while inspecting a container truck at Lok Ma Chau on April 12, 1998 ^[5]
9. 1998 蔡孝濂 (died at 33)：A medic died on duty in a traffic accident in Lamma Island
10. 1998 林錦榮 (died at 35)：A Water Supplies Department staff died in a traffic accident
11. 1999 江榮發 (died at 39)：A marine police officer stationed in Sai Kung marine police east headquarter was killed when a truck tipped over
12. 1999 黃生根 (died at 45)：A worker of the Regional Council died from a traffic accident while on duty
13. 2000 梁錦光 (died at 43): An Immigration Department senior officer died from a fire started by an arsonist. He was the first civil servant permitted to be buried permanently in Gallant Garden .^[6]
14. 2000 吳栢明 (died at 25)：Traffic police officer was hit by a vechicle while on duty.
15. 2001 梁成恩 (died at 25)：A constable was killed by an off-duty constable in Tsuen Wan Shek Wai Kok Estate (the same off-duty constable later killed another constable in Tsim Sha Tsui in 2006, at which time he was himself shot dead)
16. 2001 趙順安 (died at 28) ：An off-duty firefighter drowned while attempting to rescue a distressed teenager out in the sea in Sai Kung
17. 2002 馬樂民 (died at 28) ：Constable died during annual physical training examination
18. 2003 劉永佳 (died at 38) ：A nurse contracted the SARS virus from a patient he was taking care of at Tuen Muen Hospital. He died as a result of SARS (non civil servant) ^[7]
19. 2003 梁寶明 (died at 47) ：An on-duty police constable was drowned attempting to save a person during a flood at Ta Kwu Ling
20. 2003 謝婉雯 (died at 35) ：A doctor died from contracting SARS at Tuen Muen hospital on May 13, 2003 (non civil servant)
21. 2003 鄧香美 (died at 36) ：A hospital assistant died from contracting SARS at Union Hospital (non civil servant)
22. 2003 劉錦蓉 (died at 48) ：A hospital assistant died from contracting SARS at Union Hospital (non civil servant)
23. 2003 王庚娣 (died at 53) ：A Prince of Wales Hospital assistant died from contracting SARS.
24. 2003 鄭夏恩 (died at 30) ：A doctor from Tai Po Hospital died from contracting SARS (non civil servant)
25. 2003 陳文狄 (died at 32) ：An officer from the Government Flying Service died during a B-HRX crash
26. 2003 黃傑康 (died at 24) ：A traffic police officer died from a traffic accident while on duty.
27. 2003 彭富國 (died at 35) : A pilot from the Government Flying Service died during a B-HRX crash
28. 2003 吳峻山 (died at 31) ：A police constable died while on training.
29. 2004 陳業升 (died at 28) ：A traffic police officer died from a traffic accident at Gascoigne Road flyover while he was responding to a traffic accident report.
30. 2004 張振威 (died at 40) ：A firefighter captain lost his life when he was on a mission to rescue people trapped in a plaza's manhole at Shau Kei Wan
31. 2006 曾國恒 (died at 33)：A constable was killed by an off-duty constable in Tsim Sha Tsui. He was buried on April 4, 2006 (the same off-duty constable previously killed another constable in Tsuen Wan Shek Wai Kok Estate in 2001)
32. 2006 黃少鵬 (died at 44)：A police sergeant died from previous gunshot wounds he suffered at Aberdeen while on duty
33. 2007 黃家熙 (died at 27) ：Firefighter killed by a flashover in Texaco Road, Tsuen Wan. He was buried on June 15, 2007.^[8]

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Coordinates: 22°28′42″N 114°08′11″E / 22.478399, 114.1364323