This cemetery contains the remains of 6,982 battle prisoners who obscured their lives during in captivity of the Japanese Army that forced them to build the Bridge over the River Khwae and the finish Railway.
The Japanese successive their invasion of Thailand during macrocosm joust II, brought British, Dutch,Australian and American prisoners to Thailand by the Southern route. Impressed labourers were besides used to enact the racket rough draft of the railroad, which is an alternative to the sea route, to Rangoon via Singapore and the Strait of Malacca due to the sea wayfaring was being closed reputation by Allied submarines again aircrafts.