1.
MLS MONUMENT (ZOOM TO) SOLDIERS ENTERING GATE
5 1/2 ft

2.
MS INSCRIPTION ON GRANITE SLAB
10 ft

3.
MS SOLDIERS READING INSCRIPTION
12 ft

4.
MS PEOPLE AT KANCHANABURI CEMETERY
15 ft

5.
CU GRAVE
17 ft

6.
CU NEW ZEALAND AMBASSADOR TO THAILAND
19 ft

7.
CU BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO THAILAND
20 1/2 ft

8.
MS (LEFT TO RIGHT): BRITISH AMBASSADOR, TURKISH CHARGE DE APPAIRES AND NEW ZEALAND AMBASSADOR
23 ft

9.
LS GUESTS AT SERVICE
25 1/2 ft

10.
MS PADRE OFFICIATING
28 1/2 ft

11.
MLS TROOPS
30 1/2 ft

12.
MLS DIGNITARIES AT SERVICE (TWO SHOTS)
35 ft

13.
MLS PADRE OF OFFICIATING
37 1/2 ft

14.
MS REPRESENTATIVES OF ARMED FORCES OF AUSTRALIA, BRITAIN AND NEW ZEALAND
39 ft

15.
LS MONUMENT
41 ft

16.
MS BUGLERS BLOWING LAST POST
43 ft

17.
MS REPRESENTATIVES OF ARMED FORCES SALUTING (TWO SHOTS)
45 ft

18.
MLS MONUMENT
47 1/2 ft

19.
MS CHILD (ZOOM TO) UNKNOWN GRAVE
51 ft

20.
LS GUEST LOOKING AT GRAVES
55 ft

21.
MS THEY LEAVING CEMETERY AFTER SERVICE
59 ft



Initials CAR/S/MK/YA/RBI



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Background: ON ANZAC DAY, APRIL 25, COMMONWEALTH FORCES IN THAILAND ATTENDED SERVICES COMMEMORATING THE 49TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE HISTORIC LANDING ON GALLIPOLI PENINSULAR, IN TURKEY, IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR.

THE ABORTIVE CAMPAIGN ON GALLIPOLI ON APRIL 25, 1915, INVOLVE BRITISH AUSTRALIAN, NEW ZEALAND AND INDIAN TROOPS. THE ASSAULT REMAINS ONE OF THE GREATEST MILITARY FEATS OF BRITISH HISTORY.

THE FIRST ANZACS FOUGHT AT GALLIPOLI BECAUSE TURKEY WAS ALLIED TO GERMANY AND RUSSIA. HAD ASKED BRITISH AND FRENCH HELP. THE ALLIED COMMAND, WITH WINSTON CHURCHILL'S ENTHUSIASTIC BACKING, CHOSE TWO ANZAC DIVISIONS, TWO BRITISH DIVISIONS AND A FRENCH BRIGADE TO DRIVE THE TURKS OFF GALLIPOLI AND OPEN THE DARDANELLES AND THE BLACK SEA ROUTE TO RUSSIA.

AT THE KANCHANABURI CEMETERY, NORTHEAST OF BANGKOK LIE THE BODIES OF THOUSANDS OF COMMONWEALTH SERVICEMEN AND CIVILIANS WHO DIED DURING THE JAPANESE INVASION OF BURMA, THAILAND AND MALAYA IN 1942.

SOME OF THE MEN DIED ON THE BATTLEFIELD WHILE OTHERS MET THEIR FATE BUILDING THE BURMA-THAI RAILWAY AND IN THE PRISON CAMPS OF THE RIVER KWAI.