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In 1998 a memorial to the 26,380 men who had to be left behind in that far away place Burma and who had no known graves, was unveiled in the village of Portscatho on the Roseland Peninsula, Cornwall. The memorial was the work of one man Jim Allan, Major Allan was Commander in Chief of the 2nd Green Howards, and had never come to terms with the fact that locals in the Arakan area of Burma had dug up the bodies of servicemen to steal the blankets that they were wrapped in. The corpses were left disinterred and have no known graves. There were in excess of 300 veterans there to watch Viscount Mark Slim unveil the memorial. When this webmaster visited Portscatho, the local HM coastguard proudly guided us to the memorial and told us the history of its beginnings.
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