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Kranji Memorial In remembrance The Kranji Memorials, located off
Woodlands Road, about 22 km from the Town Centre, is made up of
three cemeteries, namely the Kranji War Memorial, the Military
Cemetery and the Singapore State Cemetery.
Kranji War Memorial History in a nutshellBefore World War II,
the location was an ammunition dump for the British Military.
It was not far from here, by the mouth of the Kranji River,
where the Japanese Imperial Guards landed on 9 February 1942.
Kranji then became a prisoner-of-war campsite with a POW
hospital situated not far away.
The Kranji War Cemetery began as a small cemetery started by the
prisoners and was later endorsed by the Army Graves Service after
the re-occupation of Singapore in 1946.
Kranji War MemorialThe Kranji War Memorial is laid out in a
geometric pattern of stones spread out on a gently sloping green
hill which offers a commanding view across the Straits of Johore to
the north and over the hills of Singapore to the south.
Kranji War MemorialThe War Memorial represents the three
branches of the military - the Air Force, Army and Navy. The
columns represent the Army, which marches in columns, the cover
over the columns is shaped after of the wings of a plane,
representing the Air Force, and the shape at the top resembles the
periscope of a submarine, representing the Navy.
Kranji War MemorialThe Memorial's walls inscribe over with the
names of 24,346 soldiers allied servicemen whose bodies were never
found, spread over both sides of 12 columns of the war memorial
itself
The War CemeteryThe War Cemetery is the final resting place for
4,458 allied servicemen in marked graves laid out in rows on
maintained and manicured lawns. Over 850 of these graves are
unidentified.
Singapore State Cemetery
The Singapore State Cemetery at Kranji has two graves. Inche
Yusof bin Ishak, who served as Singapore's President between August
1965 - November 1970, and died on 23 November 1970, was buried
here. Benjamin Henry Sheares (Dr) succeeded Inche Yusof bin Ishak
as the second President of the Republic of Singapore on 2 January
1971. He was also buried here after he died on 12 May 1981.
