Ulu Pandan Cemetery
Ulu Pandan Cemetery was a military cemetery opened in September 1955, and was located to the south of Ulu Pandan Road, and approximately 100 yards (91 m) from its junction with Clementi Road. The cemetery was designated for the burial of servicemen and of members of service families. It multi-religion, and contained separate plots of land for the burial of people of the Protestant, Roman Catholic, Hindu and Buddhist religions.
To the left of the main entrance of the cemetery were a decorative iron gateway and a white chapel. Situated behind the chapel was the memorial–which had been transferred to Ulu Pandan from Pulau Brani–to the members of corps or royal engineers who died while serving in Singapore.
In 1971, the year of the withdrawal of British forces from Singapore, there was a total of 1580 graves in the cemetery, including the 146 that had been exhumed from the Bidadari Christian Cemetery on Upper Serangoon Road. Ulu Pandan Cemetery was eventually closed in order to make way for the Singapore urban development programme, and the remains of those interred there were exhumed and transferred to the Kranji War Cemetery in 1975.
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