Taukkyan War Cemetery

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give - Winson Churchill

Yangon - I decided to go to Taukkyan War Cemetery before going to the airport. The concierge arranged with a taxi driver that they trusted to not run away with my luggage. Left the hotel around 11am and reach the location @ around 1pm due to the heavy traffic jam along the way.

I had to go as it's one of the most visited and highly rated war sites in all of Asia and it was worth the journey. The lawn and passage to the memorial was well maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

The Taukkyan War Cemetery is a cemetery for Allied soldiers from the British Commonwealth who died in battle in Burma during the Second World War. The cemetery is in the village of Taukkyan, about 25 kilometres north of Yangon on Pyay Road.

Cross for all the christians that died in battle

awesome inscriptions on the wall

"Here are recorded the names of twenty seven thousand soldiers o many races united in service to the British Crown who gave their lives to Burma and Assam and to whom the fortune of war has denied the customary rites accorded to their comrades in death"

A large number of the 27,000 names of Commonwealth soldiers are of the Indian Army and African soldiers who fought and died in Burma. Of the total, 1,819 graves are Indian soldiers.

Rangoon Memorial Pillars

The Rangoon Memorial with the names of over 27,000 Commonwealth soldiers who died in Burma during the Second World War but who have no known grave.

rows of fallen soldiers

manicured graves

Trellis along the graves

Gift from the Burmese people

The inscription states 'the land on which this cemetery stands is the gift of the Burmese people for the perpetual resting place of the sailor, soldiers and airmen who are honoured here'.

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