Kanchanaburi War Cemetery

Cemetery Details

Location Mueang Kanchanaburi, Kanchanaburi, Thailand
Co‑ordinates N14.031756, E99.525804
Description

The graves of those who died during the construction and maintenance of the Burma-Siam railway (except for the Americans, whose remains were repatriated) were transferred from camp burial grounds and isolated sites along the railway into three cemeteries at Chungkai and Kanchanaburi in Thailand and Thanbyuzayat in Myanmar.

KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY is only a short distance from the site of the former 'Kanburi', the prisoner of war base 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.

There are now 5,084 Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery.

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Names

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JONES, Gordon Patrick

Service number NX48194
Private
2nd/30th Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 5 Aug 1918

STONE, George Clifford

Service number WX17594
Private
2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 18 Mar 1918

KAYE, Arthur

Service number VX54574
Private
1 Field Bakery 2nd/AIF
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 18 Dec 1914

BROCKMAN, Cyril

Service number WX10712
Private
2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 13 May 1910

CROCKETT, Murray Bernard

Service number 410876
Warrant Officer
Royal Air Force - unspecified units
Royal Air Force
Born 3 Mar 1922

DUNDON, Roy

Service number W2173
Stoker
HMAS Perth (I) D29 WW2
Royal Australian Navy
Born 14 Jan 1922

JONAS, Ronald David

Service number SX9275
Private
Born 24 Sep 1908

MACONOCHIE, John Reginald

Service number SX9278
Private
8th Division Salvage Unit
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 12 Jan 1905

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