Images Dated 2018 February

Dedication in front of the Singapore War Memorial

Dedication in front of the Singapore War Memorial where a Roll of Honour contains the names of more than 24 000 casualties among the Commonwealth forces who died in Southeast Asia in World War II who have no known grave. Kranji, northern Singapore

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Headstones in the Singapore War Memorial

Headstones in the Singapore War Memorial, the resting place for 4458 Allied servicemen who died in the Battle of Singapore and later in Singapore and other parts of Southeast Asia during World War II. The site was first a military camp, then a Japanese prison-of-war camp. Kranji, northern Singapore

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Ceremonial bell in the Buddha Tooth Temple

Ceremonial bell in the Buddha Tooth Temple completed in 2007, a four-storey, northern Chinese style temple and museum complex. A stupa on the fourth floor made with 320 kg of gold houses its treasure, reputedly the left canine tooth of the Buddha, recovered from his funeral pyre in Kushinagar, northern India, or from a collapsed stupa in Myanmar. Singapore

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