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At one end of the memorial to those who have no known grave is a separate small memorial commemorating over 100 service personnel who died in captivity and are buried in a single grave in the grounds of Singapore Civil General Hospital.
Very few visitors to Singapore visit this isolated spot which is to the rear of the present Psychiatric ward at the new general hospital.
The Japanese had all patients carried out and placed on the pavement outside the general hospital. On the 16th February 1942, the Japanese instructed that all those who had died, in and around the general hospital , to be placed inside the large emergency water tank which had stood outside the hospital gates. The water tank was empty, having been hit by shrapnel during the war, it had lost two of its leg supports and was partly submerged in the ground.
After the hospital had been evacuated, all those remaining on the pavements outside who died were also placed in the water tank. About the 19th February chloride of lime was scattered on the tank. Between then and the end of February prisoners of war were used to excavate beneath the tank and allow it to fall below ground, it was then covered with earth giving cover of some two to three feet.
The ground was not consecrated until 1953, after the consecration of Kanji cemetery. At the same time the cemeteries at Changi were excavated and transferred to Kranji.
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