page_title: Taukkyan War Cemetery
section_title: Victoria Cross holders
hierarchical_section_title: Taukkyan War Cemetery / Victoria Cross holders
caption_attribution_description: English: Plaque honoring the allied soldiers buried at Taukkyan (in Hindi, English, and Gurmukhi).
context_page_description: The Taukkyan War Cemetery is a cemetery for Allied soldiers from the British Commonwealth who died in battle in Burma during the Second World War. The cemetery is in the village of Taukkyan, about 25 kilometres north of Yangon on Pyay Road. It is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
  The cemetery contains the graves of 6,374 soldiers who died in the Second World War, the graves of 52 soldiers who died in Burma during the First World War, and memorial pillars with the names of over 27,000 Commonwealth soldiers who died in Burma during the Second World War in the Burma Campaign but who have no known grave. There are 867 graves that contain the remains of unidentified soldiers.
  It is one of the most visited and high rated war sites of all Asia.
context_section_description: Seven holders of the Victoria Cross (VC) are interred at this site and the names of several (including five Indian VC holders) are inscribed on the Rangoon Memorial. The interred soldiers are:
  Michael Allmand (1923–1944), for action in Burma on 23 June 1944
  Frank Gerald Blaker (1920–1944), for action in Burma on 9 July 1944
  George Albert Cairns (1913–1944), for action in Burma on 13 March 1944
  Charles Ferguson Hoey (1914-1944), for action in Burma on 16 February 1944
  George Arthur Knowland (1922–1945), for action in Burma on 31 January 1945
  Claud Raymond (1923–1945), for action in Burma on 21 March 1945
  William Basil Weston (1924–1945), for action in Burma on 3 March 1945
  Other notable people buried there include: 
  South African first-class cricketer Leigh Alexander (1898-1943)
  Englishman Tom Mitford, the only brother of the famous Mitford sisters.
  Also inscribed, in English, Hindi, Urdu, Gurmukhi, and Burmese,  on the Rangoon Memorial are the words they died for all free men. The Taukkyan Cremation Memorial, also at the site, commemorates more than 1000 soldiers who were cremated according to their faith.
caption: Memorial plaque in English, Hindi, and Gurmukhi
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