Background Information/Remarks
Cenotaph for Martyrs, Wu Kau Tang
The Cenotaph, located in the Wu Kau Tang Martyrs Memorial Garden, is a memorial to honour the East River People’s Anti-Japanese Guerillas members and the Wu Kau Tang villagers who sacrificed themselves to defend Hong Kong against the Japanese invaders during Japan’s occupation of Hong Kong from 1941 to 1945. It is a local customs for the Wu Kau Tang rural community to pay their respects to the martyrs on the 16th day of the eighth lunar month, the day on which the then village representative was tortured to death by the Japanese invaders in 1942.