Kota Bharu Cenotaph

Kota Bharu Cenotaph (29 April, 2017)


The Kota Bharu Cenotaph (GPS: 6.13123, 102.23646) is a World War I monument erected by the British. It is located located at Merdeka Square.

The Cenotaph was a memorial to those who went from Kelantan to fight in World War I, also known then as the Great War (1914-1918), giving their lives as a result. Their names are engraved on a plaque on the memorial. It was here that the corpse of a local rebel, Tok Janggut Pahlawan Kelantan, was hung upside down in 1915.

A second, smaller plaque was added to remember those from Kelantan who lost their lives in the Second World War (1939-1945).

The Cenotaph was the site of the declaration of independence from the British on 31 August, 1957.

Kota Bharu Cenotaph is on the Map of Kota Bharu, Kelantan

The Kota Bharu Cenotaph is on the Map of British Cenotaphs

Cenotaph, Kota Bharu (29 April, 2017)



Plaque on the Kota Bharu Cenotaph (12 February 2006)

Kota Bharu Cenotaph on Google Street View

Kota Bharu Cenotaph

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