Kranji War Cemetery
Address: 9 Woodlands Road, Singapore 738656
Opening Hours: Daily 0700-1830hrs
Established in 1946 on the former site of a military camp and later Prisoner-of-War camp, Kranji War Cemetery is the resting place of 4,461 Commonwealth casualties of World War 2, of these 850 burials cannot be identified.
The site is also home to the Singapore War Memorial, on whose walls are inscribed more than 24,000 names of members of the Commonwealth land and air forces with no known grave. The casualties listed not only include those who were lost in the fight for Malaya and Singapore but also those who fell in Indonesia. Service members who died in captivity, including those who died during the construction of the Thai-Burma Railway or lost at sea while being transported to other imprisonment locations are also commemorated here. The memorial also commemorates airmen who died during operations over the whole of southern and eastern Asia and the surrounding seas and oceans.
Other memorials onsite include The Singapore (Unmaintainable Graves) Memorial, The Singapore Civil Hospital Grave Memorial and The Singapore Cremation Memorial
Information extracted from CWGC website.
Opening Hours: Daily 0700-1830hrs
Established in 1946 on the former site of a military camp and later Prisoner-of-War camp, Kranji War Cemetery is the resting place of 4,461 Commonwealth casualties of World War 2, of these 850 burials cannot be identified.
The site is also home to the Singapore War Memorial, on whose walls are inscribed more than 24,000 names of members of the Commonwealth land and air forces with no known grave. The casualties listed not only include those who were lost in the fight for Malaya and Singapore but also those who fell in Indonesia. Service members who died in captivity, including those who died during the construction of the Thai-Burma Railway or lost at sea while being transported to other imprisonment locations are also commemorated here. The memorial also commemorates airmen who died during operations over the whole of southern and eastern Asia and the surrounding seas and oceans.
Other memorials onsite include The Singapore (Unmaintainable Graves) Memorial, The Singapore Civil Hospital Grave Memorial and The Singapore Cremation Memorial
Information extracted from CWGC website.