Kanchanaburi - A short drive from the Skywalk lies the Kanchanaburi war cemetery.
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.
Coincidentally, today is also poppy day or war remembrance day and many Australians and UK relatives of dead were at this cemetery for a remembrance service.
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| plaque lies at the entrance of the cemetery |
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| Graves of many servicemen |
There are now 5,085 Commonwealth casualties and 1,896 Dutch war graves of the Second World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery.
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| memorial poppy |
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| Today is remembrance day |
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