Commonwealth Memorial of the Missing Singapore

This memorial is located at Kranji War Cemetery. Written on the memorial are 24,315 names, of killed Commonwealth soldiers who have no known grave. The soldiers 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-railway, or at sea while being transported into imprisonment elsewhere. The memorial also commemorates airmen who died during operations in this area and the surrounding oceans. " 1939-1945 On the walls of this memorial are recorded the names of the twentyfour thousand soldiers and airmen of many races united in service to the British Crown who gave their lives in Malaya and neighbouring lands and seas and in the air over southern and eastern Asia and the Pacific but to whom the fortune of war denied the customary rites accorded to their comrades in death. DIED FOR ALL FREE MEN"