Kranji War Cemetery

Cemetery Details

Location 9 Woodlands Road (within - Kranji War Cemetery), Singapore, SE Asia
Co‑ordinates N1.418509, E103.758021
Description

Located at 9 Woodlands Road - 22 kilometres north of the city of Singapore

Before 1939, the Kranji area was a military camp and at the time of the Japanese invasion of Malaya, it was the site of a large ammunition magazine.

There are now 4,461 Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War buried or commemorated at KRANJI WAR CEMETERY. More than 850 of the burials are unidentified.

Within Kranji War Cemetery stands the SINGAPORE MEMORIAL, bearing the names of over 24,000 casualties of the Commonwealth land and air forces who have no known grave. Many of these have no known date of death and are accorded within our records the date or period from when they were known to be missing or captured. The land forces commemorated by the memorial died during the campaigns in Malaya and Indonesia or in subsequent captivity, many of them during the construction of the Burma-Thailand railway, or at sea while being transported into imprisonment elsewhere. The memorial also commemorates airmen who died during operations over the whole of southern and eastern Asia and the surrounding seas and oceans.

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Names

Showing 8 people of interest from cemetery

WOODMAN, John Reginald

Service number VX32894
Private
Born 6 Jun 1919

MASON, Walter Charles

Service number NX31689
Lance Corporal
2nd/30th Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 9 Apr 1919

CROXSON, Albert Ross

Service number NX40623
Private
2nd/18th Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 29 May 1918

RHODES, Cecil John

Service number NX71912
Private
2nd/20th Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 30 Dec 1916

MILES, William George Llewellyn

Service number QX11239
Corporal
2nd/26th Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 16 Aug 1913

DAWKINS, Clarence Barton

Service number QX6001
Major
Born 2 Jan 1901

SAM, Joseph Henry

Service number QX12180
Private
2nd/26th Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 26 Jun 1914

WARREN, Eric Allen

Service number TX4883
Private
2nd/40th Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 13 Sep 1921

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