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*Refer online Hong Kong newspapers, see below, for birth, marriage and death notices.
*See Hong Kong Government Reports Online, below. A researcher advised that he found details of a relative who worked for the Hong Kong lighthouse service in these online government publications.<ref> Who Do You Think You Are? Forum thread "Lighthouse keeper in the dark", now no longer available <nowiki>http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/forum/topic10068.html</nowiki> </ref> The information was found in an official publication know as the ''Blue Book'' in a section "Civil Establishments of Hongkong" which lists information about Civil Servants.
*See [[Cemeteries]] for websites such as Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and The War Graves Photographic Project, which include pages titled Stanley Military Cemetery and Sai Wan (China) Memorial, in addition to other pages.
*The [[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA]] Archive at the [[British Library]] holds information on both Happy Valley and Stanley cemeteries under file reference Mss Eur F370/81
*The book ''Garrison Memorials in Hong Kong: Some Graves and Monuments at Happy Valley'' by Solomon Bard 1997 is available at the [[British Library]] in the [[BACSA]] Archive, catalogue reference Mss Eur F370/1242 . By the same author, but not held in the BACSA Archive, ''Study of Military Graves and Monuments: Hong Kong Cemetery'' 1991, (Hong Kong Antiquities and Monuments Office) thought to be available at the Public Record Office, Hong Kong, possibly as a typescript. May possibly include information about Stanley Cemetery.<ref>''Challenging Dead. A Look into Foreigners’ Cemeteries in Macau, Hong Kong, and Taiwan'' by Gotelind Müller 2018, page 16, footnote 72 and page 18, footnote 85. See [[Hong Kong#External links|External links]], above.</ref>
*The book ''British and Indian Armies on the China Coast 1785-1985'' by Alan Harfield 1990 is available at the [[British Library]], UIN: BLL01009472436 . Includes lists such as “List of Known Recipients of the Hong Kong Plague Medal 1894” and “List of Officers who served with the Hong Kong Regiment 1892-1902”. This [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/uk.people.ex-forces/v3LqubdrU1k link] lists some “Military Commanders of Hong Kong and China” from the book (pages 483-484).
*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/23889722 "Review of Development of Cemeteries in Hong Kong: 1841-1950"] by Ko Tim-Keung ''Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Vol. 41 (2001)'', pp. 241-280 (40 pages). jstor.org. Register with jstor.org and read online for free. Limits apply.
:[https://www.history.cuhk.edu.hk/CourseWeb/200809/his4400/pdf/L4_Voices%20from%20the%20stones-cemeteries.pdf "Voices from the Stones"] by Ko Tim-keung. history.cuhk.edu.hk
*[https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/37955053.pdf ''Name studies in a special form of real estate – an empirical study of the choice of christian names as recorded on gravestones''] by Chan Man Hin, Roger. A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Architecture, University of Hong Kong April 2010. Contains some old maps and images, some extracted from the 1997 book by Solomon Bard, see Records above.
*First two chapters, with Notes of [https://hkupress.hku.hk/pro/con/900.pdf ''The Happy Valley A History and Tour of the Hong Kong Cemetery''] by Ken Nicolson 2010 hkupress.hku.hk
*[http://crossasia-repository.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/4145/1/Challenging%20Dead_final.pdf ''Challenging Dead. A Look into Foreigners’ Cemeteries in Macau, Hong Kong, and Taiwan''] by Gotelind Müller 2018. crossasia-repository.ub.uni-heidelberg.de.
*[https://www.dva.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/commems-memorials/cwgc_hongkong.pdf "The War Cemeteries and Memorials in Hong Kong"] Commonwealth War Graves Commission Information Sheet. dva.gov.au
