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Kanchanaburi WAR CEMETERY - THAILAND

16/9/2014

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On the 18 August 2014 we visited Kanchanaburi and spent some time at the war cemetery for allied soldiers who died during the construction of the notorious 424 Km long Burma- Siam railway. This project by the Imperial Japanese Army  resulted in the deaths of approximately 13,000 prisoners of war and up to 100,000 civilians.

The town of Kanchanaburi is about 129 kilometres North-West of Bangkok, Kanchanaburi War Cemetery is located on the Saeng Chuto Road which is
the main road running through the town.

The cemetery is located only a short distance from the site of the former 'Kanburi', the prisoner of war camp through which most of the prisoners passed on their way to other camps. It was created by the Army Graves Service who transferred to it all graves along the Southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke.
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There are now 5,084 Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery, there are also 1,896 Dutch war graves.

Some 300 men who died (most from a Cholera epidemic in May/June 1943) at Nieke camp were cremated and their ashes now lie in two graves in the
cemetery, the names of these men are inscribed on a panel.

Within the entrance building to the cemetery is another memorial recording the names of 11 men of the army of undivided India buried in Muslim cemeteries in
Thailand.
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    My interest in ships and the sea started back in 2006 when I worked for a couple of years  on the banks of the River Mersey. I have since been on a couple of cruises around the Med and in the Far East and have started to take more interest in researching and photographing some of the ships and other vessels seen on my travels.

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