Former Hock Eng Seng Cemetery

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The Former Hock Eng Seng Cemetery was a private Chinese cemetery at Lorong Panchar (expunged), off Sixth Avenue near the Bukit Timah Road 6th milestone, Singapore, containing some 600 graves, many belonging to Chinese war patriots. Remains of victims of the 1942 massacre, rediscovered in 1962, were reburied there in six large urns near the massacre site. The government bought over the cemetery in the 1990s due to its prime Bukit Timah location, and the graves — including a notable WWII tomb memorial — were exhumed and re-interred at Choa Chu Kang Chinese Cemetery (massacre victims relocated 1996).