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| Cemetery: |
RANGOON WAR CEMETERY, Myanmar |
| Cemetery Details: |
A caretaker resides on site and the cemetery gates are open between
8am and 5 pm. |
| Grave Reference/Panel Number: |
Sp. Mem. Joint grave 9. B. 7. |
| Location: |
The cemetery is situated between Myienegone and Manthawaddy
roundabout (close to the circle) and at the back of Burma Translation
Society (Sarbaybeikmann). The entrance to the cemetery is down a lane
facing east along PYI road (formerly Prome Road) some 8 kilometres from
the port, 12 kilometres from the airport and 5 kilometres from the main
railway station. There is no road direction sign to the cemetery, but
Monasteries surround the cemetery on three sides.
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| Historical Information: |
Rangoon War Cemetery was first used as a burial ground immediately
following the recapture of Rangoon in May 1945. Later, the Army Graves
Service moved in graves from several burial sites in and around Rangoon,
including those of the men who died in Rangoon Jail as prisoners of war.
There are now 1,381 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War buried
or commemorated in this cemetery. 86 of the burials are unidentified and
there are special memorials to more than 60 casualties whose graves could
not be precisely located. In 1948, the graves of 36 Commonwealth
servicemen who died in Rangoon during the First World War were moved into
this cemetery, 35 of them from Rangoon Cantonment Cemetery and one from
Rangoon (Pazundaung) Town Cemetery. |