The
Don Rak
War Cemetery in
Kanchanaburi
where 6,982 victims of WW II are buried, mostly the remains of those who
worked on the
Death Railway.
Unlike the mass graves of the past, each soldier, whether a general or a
private, has his own named grave, whilst the tombstones of unknown victims
who fell are inscribed with the words Known Unto God, a text coined after
WWI by the poet Rudyard Kipling, author of The Jungle Book.
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