For quite some time i've been zooming past Kranji War Memorial on an expressway nearby. It could also be seen from afar by the MRT track. Just one fine sunny day, i stopped by for a closer look.
The memorial is placed in a sprawling ground in Kranji. It is dedicated to the men and women who died defending Malaya against the invading Japanese during World War II. The war cemetery has 4,458 number of graves, laid in rows of beautifully-tended lawns.
Sadly, more than 850 of these are unidentified and simply marked as 'a soldier'.
After the graves, you will arrive at 12 columns of Memorial Wall with names inscribed on them. When was there, i found a wreath of Poppy Flowers. The poppy flower is a symbol worn on Remembrance Day, i remember it was everywhere during my trip to London where Westminster Abbey's lawn was filled with them during Remembrance Day.
On the walls are names of 24,000 allied servicemen whose bodies were never found. A good visit to a solemn place to remind us of the bloody past in Singapore.
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