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On a quiet rise in the north of Singapore, the Kranji War Memorial commemorates the men and women who died defending Malaya and Singapore during the Second World War. Maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and dedicated in 1957, it gathers more than four thousand graves alongside memorials bearing the names of over twenty thousand more whose remains were never identified or recovered. The design centres on a striking central pylon shaped to suggest the wing of an aircraft, rising ...