Race Course Fire Memorial — Attraction in Hong Kong

The Race Course Fire Memorial is a little known monument located on the hillside next to Hong Kong Stadium. This memorial is dedicated to the nearly 600 people of many nationalities who lost their lives in a terrible fire that broke on during a racing day at Happy Valley on 26 February 1918.

The Memorial was constructed in 1922 and is Chinese in architectural design. It includes a central Memorial arch with three bays consisting of Italianate granite niches. There you find the names of those who lost their lives written in Chinese. There is an upper terrace on both sides with stone pavilions and a lower terrace with the traditional curved shape of a Chinese grave where you find two stone pagodas.

The Race Course Fire Memorial became a designated monument in 2015. There are plaques with information about this monument and its history as soon as you enter the lower terrace and a much older one on the opposite side.

This monument is located up a hill and accessed by way of a staircase next to the small carpark beside the Stadium. You walk for a few minutes up a fairly steep set of good condition steps before reaching...

One of declared Monuments in Hong Kong, staircase entrance by HK Stadium parking

The Race Course Fire Memorial was erected in 1922 to pay respect to those who died in the tragic Race Course Fire which broke out on 26 February 1918 (the second day of the annual "Derby Day" races) at the Racecourse, claiming more than 600 lives of various nationalities. The Memorial, which is situated on the hillside above the present Hong Kong Stadium at So Kon Po, is the only memorial in Hong Kong dedicated to the victims who died in this...

The Race Course Fire Memorial (Chinese: 馬場先難友紀念碑) is a Hong Kong monument erected in memory to those who were killed in the Happy Valley Racecourse fire on 26 February 1918. The memorial was completed in 1922, and is currently managed by the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals. It is located next to Hong Kong Stadium. The site was added to the list of declared monuments by the Antiquities and Monuments...