Kranji War Cemetery and Memorial
Kranji War Cemetery and Memorial Commonwealth War Graves Commission Singapore and a photograph and information of the headstone of QAIMNS Sister Mavis Joy Jones
Located North of Singapore, Kranji War Cemetery is also known as the Kranji Memorial. The area was formerly a military Camp prior to the 1942 Japanese invasion. The area was used as a Prisoner of War camp and British and Allied prisoners were buried here and the cemetery grew into a permanent burial place post World War Two. In 1946 military graves from Changi Prison were moved here.
According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website there are 4,461 Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War buried or commemorated with more than 850 of the burials unidentified.
The Singapore Memorial can be found here and it bears 24,000 names of the Commonwealth land and air forces who have no known grave. There is a photo of this on the QARANC Association pilgrimage to Singapore Malaysia 2009 page.
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Sister Mavis Joy Jones
Sister Mavis Joy Jones, service number 313979, of the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, is buried at plot 27. A. 7.
She was the daughter of William Griffiths Jones and Beatrice Winifred Jones of Cathays, Cardiff.
Her headstone reads:
Sister Mavis Joy Jones
QAIMNS
2nd June 1946 Age 24
In the arms of Jesus
Good night dear
Till we say good-morning
Mam Dad and Wendy
Another nurse buried here is Dorothy Sugden.
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