 When the Japanese arrived and found his body, they gave him a military burial nearby in Wong Nai Chong Gap out of respect for his courage.A chaplain was allowed to remove Lawson's silver identification disc bracelet and held on to it through four years as a Japanese prisoner of war before returning it to Lawson's family in Canada.Meanwhile, Hong Kong was relieved only on 16 September 1945, more than a month after the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.