page_title: Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery
section_title: War dead
hierarchical_section_title: Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery / War dead
caption_attribution_description: Detail of Original Cross Created by Prisoners of War - Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery - Thanbyuzayat - Myanmar (Burma)
context_page_description: The Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery is a prisoner of war cemetery for victims of Japanese imprisonment Who died building the Death Railway in Burma. It is at the Burmese end of the Second World War railway construction, in Thanbyuzayat, 65 kilometres south of Mawlamyine. Thanbyuzayat is considered the terminus of the Death Railway, and is where it connected with the Burmese main line.
  The cemetery was formally inaugurated on 10 December 1946 by General Aung San and then Governor Sir Hubert Rance. It is open every day between 07:00-17:00.
context_section_description: There are 3,626 identified former POWs buried there,
  1,651 British;
  1,335 Australians;
  621 Dutch;
  15 Indian Army;
  3 New Zealanders;
  one Canadian.
  Also
  72 unidentified.
caption: The last remaining original Cross of Sacrifice at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery
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