This weekend we visited the cemetery in “Rangoon” run by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Here 1,131 servicemen from the 2nd World War are buried/ remembered in immaculate gardens. It would be very peaceful, aside from the fact that it is right next to a very busy main road.
There are 86 unknown graves (I read that on the website – can’t claim to have counted them all)… many graves with lovely inscriptions… and right at the back a line of Nepalis, alongside Indians and other Commonwealth servicemen, and a memorial to those Hindu’s who were cremated as opposed to buried.
When I opened the box to sign the Cemetery Register I was greeted with the sign below. Probably slightly inappropriate to be amused in a cemetery, but I couldn’t help thinking I might be a bit unimpressed if I had come all the way from England to visit the graves, only to discover I had to go back to England to enquire about signing a register.
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