<P> Of the Canadians captured during the battle, 267 subsequently perished in Japanese prisoner of war camps, mainly due to neglect and abuse . In December 2011, Toshiyuki Kato, Japan's parliamentary vice-minister for foreign affairs, apologised for the mistreatment to a group of Canadian veterans of the Battle of Hong Kong . </P> <P> Enemy civilians (meaning Allied nationals) were interned at the Stanley Internment Camp . Initially, there were 2,400 internees although this number was reduced, by repatriations during the war . Interned persons who died and prisoners executed by the Japanese are buried in Stanley Military Cemetery . </P> <P> Isogai Rensuke became the first Japanese governor of Hong Kong . This ushered in the three years and eight months of Imperial Japanese administration . During the three and half years of occupation by the Japanese, an estimated 10,000 Hong Kong civilians were executed, while many others were tortured, raped, or mutilated . The local population in the rural New Territories, a mix of Hakka, Cantonese and other Han Chinese groups, waged a guerrilla war with limited success . The resistance groups were known as the Gangjiu and Dongjiang forces . The Japanese razed several villages in reprisal; the guerillas fought until the end of the Japanese occupation . General Takashi Sakai, who led the invasion of Hong Kong and served as governor for some time, was tried as a war criminal and executed by a firing squad in 1946 . </P> <Ul> <Li> John Robert Osborn (2 January 1899--19 December 1941) was awarded the Victoria Cross . After seeing a Japanese grenade roll in through the doorway of the building Osborn and his fellow Canadian Winnipeg Grenadiers had been garrisoning, he took off his helmet and threw himself on the grenade, saving the lives of over 10 other Canadian soldiers . He was born in Norfolk, England . </Li> <Li> Gander was a Newfoundland dog posthumously awarded the Dickin Medal, the "animals' Victoria Cross", in 2000 for his deeds in World War II, the first such award in over 50 years . He picked up a thrown Japanese hand grenade and rushed with it toward the enemy, dying in the ensuing explosion but saving the lives of several wounded Canadian soldiers . </Li> <Li> Colonel Lance Newnham, Captain Douglas Ford and Flight Lieutenant Hector Bertram Gray were awarded the George Cross for the gallantry they showed in resisting Japanese torture in the immediate aftermath of the battle . The men had been captured and were in the process of planning a mass escape by British forces . Their plan was discovered but they refused to disclose information under torture and were shot by firing squad . </Li> </Ul>

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