Cenotaph - Ipoh - 1927
Club Rd, Ipoh.
The cenotaph or war memorial was the focal point for commemoration of the fallen after WWI and can be found in every city, town and village in the British Empire.
The marble plaque in the photograph is not original. The original brass plaques disappeared for decades and were only very recently recovered and restored to the cenotaph. The original plaques bear the legend, "Sacred to the Memory of the Men from the State of Perak who fell in the Great War 1914-1918" and bear the names of 91 Britons - no doubt administrators, police men, planters and miners who left the comfort of colonial Malaya to fall in the distant fields of France and Belgium.
The memorial also pays tribute to those who died in the two world wars, the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960), the Confrontation (1962-1965) and the Insurgency (1972-1990).
Cenotaph - Ipoh - 1927
Club Rd, Ipoh.
The cenotaph or war memorial was the focal point for commemoration of the fallen after WWI and can be found in every city, town and village in the British Empire.
The marble plaque in the photograph is not original. The original brass plaques disappeared for decades and were only very recently recovered and restored to the cenotaph. The original plaques bear the legend, "Sacred to the Memory of the Men from the State of Perak who fell in the Great War 1914-1918" and bear the names of 91 Britons - no doubt administrators, police men, planters and miners who left the comfort of colonial Malaya to fall in the distant fields of France and Belgium.
The memorial also pays tribute to those who died in the two world wars, the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960), the Confrontation (1962-1965) and the Insurgency (1972-1990).