Military Cemetery in Kanchanaburi province, also known as Don Cancer cemetery, a reminder of the terrible events that took place here during the Second World War. It was created by Colin Clare Oaks, and is under the control of the Joint Commission on Military Cemetery.

Here are buried prisoners who died in the inhuman conditions of the railway from Thailand to Myanmar (Burma). The project was initiated by Japan, which the soldiers needed support in Myanmar.

The work was on the part of Thailand, and on the part of Myanmar. The purpose of Japanese was the construction of the road for 14 months from October 1942 to December 1943. At the cost of tens of thousands of lives Road of Death, a length of 424 kilometers, was ready on time.

As a result of the construction and incredible cruelty to workers along the road were buried body about 13,000 prisoners. According to historians, the project has lost about 80 000 -100 000 people. Later, the bodies were removed from the common burial grounds along the road and moved to three cemeteries: in Chungkay and Kanchanaburi in Thailand and in Myanmar Thanbuzayyat.

Here at Kanchanaburi war cemetery, buried the body 6982 people cremated and the ashes of 300 soldiers withdrawn from the southern part near the road from Bangkok to Neke. Most of them came from England, Holland and Australia. Separately, the cemetery is a wall with the names of 11 memory Indian Muslims who died during the construction. The bodies of US soldiers found in mass graves, were taken home.