In Memory of
Frank Miles Starling
Sergeant
168004
Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers
who died on
Friday, 27th August 1943. Age 25.
Commemorative Information
Cemetery:
KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY,
Grave Reference/
Panel Number:
Sp. Mem. 9. M. 9.
Location:
Kanchanaburi is 129 kilometres west-north-west of Bangkok.
Kanchanaburi War Cemetery is situated in the north eastern part of the town along Saeng
Chuto Road,
The Kanchanaburi Memorial will be found in the entrance building to Kanchanaburi War
Cemetery. It is in the form of a bronze memorial tablet recording the names of 11 soldiers
of
the army of undivided India, buried in Muslim civil cemeteries in Thailand, whose graves
are
unmaintainable.
Historical Information:
The cemetery is only a short distance from the site of the former "Kanburi"
Prisoner-of-War
Base Camp, through which passed most of the prisoners on their way to other camps, and is
the largest of the three war cemeteries (two in Thailand and one in Burma) on the
notorious
Burma-Siam railway. It was created by the Army Graves Service who transferred to it all
graves, save American graves, from camp burial grounds and solitary sites along the
southern half of the railway from Bangkok to Nieke. Most of the base camps and hospitals
were in this area and the total number of burials in the cemetery is nearly 7,000. This
figure
includes 300 men who died during an epidemic at Nieke Camp and were cremated, whose
ashes now rest in two graves in the cemetery. Their names are commemorated on Portland
stone panels in the shelter pavilion which stands at the end of one of the two main
avenues, facing the Cross of Sacrifice at the intersection of the avenues and the Stone of
Remembrance at the opposite end. In this register the addition of the words "Spec.
Mem."
against the number of the grave indicates that the casualty is one of the men whose names
appear on the panels. Over the two graves are bronze plaques bearing the inscription
"HERE ARE BURIED THE ASHES OF 300 SOLDIERS WHOSE NAMES ARE INSCRIBED IN THE
MEMORIAL BUILDING IN THIS CEMETERY".
In the entrance building is a bronze memorial tablet recording the names of 11 soldiers of
the army of undivided India, buried in Muslim civil cemeteries in Thailand, whose graves
are
unmaintainable.
Copyright The Commonwealth War Graves Commission