Got a postcard from my parents

[GasX]

My parents are in Myanmar travelling ad they sent me a post card. They mention visiting the war cemetary where my Uncle is buried - He died as a Japanese POW.

My mother has not seen her brother since he left for Burma in 1940 or so... I imagine they had a very emotional time while there. One of the things they said in the card that was nice was that the place had a wonderful peaceful air about it. It is nice to know that Jack has a nicer home than the one the Japs gave him...

 

[K1052]

I am guessing he died while working on the Burma-Thailand Railway.

to all those who died in that hell on earth at the brutal hands of the Imperial Japanese Army.

 

[GasX]

RIP Private Jack Parker

 

[aswedc]

i also have family who were killed by the japanese.

 

[midwestfisherman]

 

[FoBoT]

Rangoon War Cemetery was first used as a burial ground immediately following the recapture of Rangoon in May 1945. Later, the Army Graves Service moved in graves from several burial sites in and around Rangoon, including those of the men who died in Rangoon Jail as prisoners of war. There are now 1,381 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 86 of the burials are unidentified and there are special memorials to more than 60 casualties whose graves could not be precisely located. In 1948, the graves of 36 Commonwealth servicemen who died in Rangoon during the First World War were moved into this cemetery, 35 of them from Rangoon Cantonment Cemetery and one from Rangoon (Pazundaung) Town Cemetery.

 

[bluewall21]

Condolences.

 

[fbrdphreak]