Pandu War Cemetery
| Dutch Field of Honor Pandu | |
|---|---|
Nederlands Ereveld Pandu Makam Kehormatan Belanda di Pandu | |
 Pandu War Cemetery | |
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| Details | |
| Location | |
| Country | Indonesia |
| Coordinates | 6°53′59″S 107°35′31″E / 6.899656°S 107.591917°E |
| Type | War cemetery |
| Owned by | Netherlands War Graves Foundation |
| No. of graves | 4,000 |
Pandu War Cemetery, also Dutch Field of Honor Pandu (Dutch: Nederlands Ereveld Pandu, Indonesian: Makam Kehormatan Belanda di Pandu), is a war cemetery in Bandung, West Java, in Indonesia.[1]
The cemetery has 4,000 graves. Most of the graves belong to Dutch civilian war victims and prisoners of war from Japanese-run internment camps who were killed by their captors during the fall of Japan in 1945. At the highest point of the cemetery stands a flag pole with at its base the place names where most people were killed. Lt. Gen. Berenschot, who died in an aircraft crash before the Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies, is also buried here.
There are two monuments on the cemetery, one for all the unidentified civilian war victims and one for all the unknown soldiers who are buried there.
Notable burials
[edit]- G.J. Berenschot (1887–1941)[2]
- L.E. Lanjouw (1896–1942)[3]
- C.P. Wolff Schoemaker (1882–1949)
References
[edit]- ^ Fauzan, Hevi Abu (9 December 2022). "Those who were Buried in Ereveld Pandu and Leuwigajah". Sejarahbandung.id. Sejarah Bandung. Archived from the original on 19 January 2023. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
- ^ "Gerardus Johannes Berenschot". Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl (in Dutch). Netherlands War Graves Foundation. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
- ^ "Leonhard Elisa Lanjouw". Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl (in Dutch). Netherlands War Graves Foundation. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
External links
[edit]
- (in Dutch) Pandu War Cemetery on the website of the Netherlands War Graves Foundation (OGS)
- (in Dutch) OGS leaflet about Pandu War Cemetery
- (in English) OGS brochure about Dutch war graves in Southeast Asia
