The Kanji War Cemetery and Kranji Memorial, located in Kranji (Singapore), commemorates Allied soldiers who perished during the Japanese invasion and occupation of Singapore, 1942-1945, and in other parts of South East Asia during World War II. Kranji is an area in Singapore, located about 22 kilometers (15 miles) north of the city centre, which served as a military camp before the 1939 Japanese invasion, and now is the home of the Kranji War Cemetery and Kranji Memorial. ... The Battle of Singapore was a battle of the South-East Asian theatre of World War II, from February 7, 1942 – February 15, 1942. ... This article is about the year. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the globe...

Before 1939 the Kranji area was a military camp and at the time of the Japanese invasion of Malaya, it was the site of a large ammunition magazine. On 8 February 1942, the Japanese invaded Singapore. After the fall of the island, the Japanese established a prisoner of war camp at Kranji and a hospital nearby at Woodlands. After the end of the war, the small cemetery started by the prisoners at Kranji was developed into a permanent war cemetery. There are 4,458 Second World War casualties buried or commemorated here, over 850 of these are unidentified. Woodlands is a town in the northern part of Singapore comprising four distinctive housing estates. ...

On the walls of the Kranji Memorial are inscribed the names of over 24,000 Allied soldiers who have no known grave. Many of the casualties died during the battle for Malaya and Singapore and Indonesia, or who died during captivity. Many of them during the building of the Death Railway. The Bridge over the river Kwai The Death Railway (known also as Burma Railway or Thai-Burma Railway) was a railway built from Thailand to Burma (now Myanmar) by the Japanese during World War II to complete the route from Bangkok to Rangoon and support the Japanese occupation of Burma. ...

Kranji is also the final resting place of the Republic's first two Presidents - Yusof Ishak and Benjamin Henry Sheares.

External Links

• Pictures at My Far East
• Digger History: an unofficial history of the Australian & New Zealand Armed Forces
• Peter Chou's PBase Gallery Kranji War Memorial