Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery
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| Location | Thanbyuzayat |
| Country | Burma (Myanmar) |
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| Type | Military Cemetery |
| Owned by | Commonwealth War Graves Commission |
| Website | Cemetery Details. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. |
| Find a Grave | Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery at Find a Grave |
Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery is a Burma Railway related POW cemetery in Burma (Myanmar).
It is located at the Burmese end of the construction range of the second world war railway construction, in Thanbyuzayat, and it was considered the location of the terminus of the railway.[1]
War dead
There are 3,617 former POWs buried there,[2][3]
- 1,651 British;
- 1,335 Australians;
- 621 Dutch;
- 15 Indian Army;
- 3 New Zealanders;
- one Canadian.
There are 621 Dutch war graves, the rest being from Britain and the Commonwealth.[4]
See also
References
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- ↑ <Rivett, Rohan Deakin (1950) "Chapter XIX: Thanbyuzayat Base Camp" Behind bamboo : an inside story of the Japanese prison camps Angus and Robertson, London, OCLC 13509214
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