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The Singapore Memorial in the Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore – Resting place of Guyanese WWII Service Members

The Singapore Memorial is located in the Kranji War Cemetery and bears 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 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

The Kranji War Cemetery sits atop a hill 22 kilometres north of the city of Singapore overlooking the Straits of Johore. It is just off the Singapore-Johore road (Woodlands road) at milestone 13.5. The Kranji MRT (train) terminal is a short distance from the Cemetery, approximately 10 to 15 minutes away by foot.

The Kranji War Cemetery ​is the final resting place for Allied soldiers who perished during the Battle of Singapore and the subsequent Japanese occupation of the island from 1942–1945 and in other parts of Southeast Asia during World War II

The Kranji War Cemetery and the Singapore Memorial were designed by Colin St Clair Oakes. The memorial was unveiled by Sir Robert Black, Governor of Singapore, on the March 02, 1957.

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