 In the early summer of 1945, after the end of the war in Europe, his childhood friend, Mun Charn Wong located his remains which were then re-buried at the Netherlands American Cemetery.After the war, Wau Kau Kong was re-buried in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, gravesite SECTION D SITE 453.His friend Wong initiated the Wah Kau Kong Memorial Award Scholarship at the University of Hawaii in his honor.