KUALA LUMPUR (CHERAS ROAD) CIVIL CEMETERY HISTORY INFORMATION
At the time of the Japanese invasion of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur was the headquarters of the 3rd Indian Corps. Early in 1941 part of the recently raised 8th Division of the Australian Infantry Force was assigned to Malaya, a territory of strategic importance to Australia. The headquarters divisional staff arrived on February 18th in advance of the main force, which numbered some 6,000 men, and the divisional headquarters and attached units were posted at Kuala Lumpur. As the Japanese moved successfully down the peninsula a temporary prisoner-of-war camp was established at Pudu jail, to which United Kingdom and Commonwealth serviceman were taken before being sent to Changi Camp on Singapore island. Some of them died, of wounds or sickness, while in this camp and were buried in the Cheras Road Cemetery.
There are 156 Commonwealth burials of the 1939-1945 war here. In addition, there are over 600 non world war burials of servicemen and dependants here, 5 being unidentified children of Gurkha soldiers.
SURNAME
Bancroft
FORENAME
Kenneth B. (Digger)
UNIT
C Squadron
RANK
Corporal
NUMBER
22244915
DATE OF DEATH
26th November 1953
AGE
34
GRAVESITE
Cheras Road Christian Cemetery (Military Annex),Kuala Lumpur,Selangor,West Malaysia Row 21 Grave 1124
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