14639680 Private David Bennett Jones - Chindit
Burma Visit November 2003
Our First Visit to the Graves
My first sight of the grave - cross with poppy donated by Royal British Legion
The Staffordshire Knot, followed by 14639680 Private D. B. Jones The South
Staffordshire Regiment
11th June 1944 age 20
AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN
AND IN THE MORNING, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Pause for thought - poppy posy and cross donated by Royal British Legion
So many lives. Taukkyan is 'home' to 6,400 graves.
The impressive Rangoon Memorial unveiled on 9th February 1958. Commemorated on the pillars are the names of 27,000 Commonwealth war dead men and women for whom there are no graves.
A small portion of one of the pillars showing just a few of the 27,000 names of the men and women to whom the memorial is dedicated.
The grounds so beautifully maintained
Memorial to the Army of Undivided India
The names of 1049 officers and men whose remains were cremated.
A view from behind the Rangoon Memorial looking towards the front
View from the main road
A reminder
The perimeter wall
Facing you inside the gates
Looking up underneath the Rangoon Memorial
Self explanatory
The memorial cross at Rangoon Cemetery