Kanchanaburi_War_Cemetery
Kanchanaburi War Cemetery
CWGC cemetery in Thailand
The Kanchanaburi War Cemetery (known locally as the Don-Rak War Cemetery[2]) is the main prisoner of war (POW) cemetery for victims of Japanese imprisonment while building the Burma Railway. It is on the main road, Saeng Chuto Road, through the town of Kanchanaburi, Thailand,[3] adjacent to an older Chinese cemetery. The cemetery contains 6,982 graves of British, Australian and Dutch prisoners of war, of whom 6,858 have been identified.[3][4]