Known as the Rangoon Memorial: the memorial is in the form of two long open garden courts, flanked by covered walks and joined by an open rotunda. The names of the fallen are carved on the inner faces of broad rectangular piers placed at intervals to form the sides of the covered walks.

On the frieze inside the rotunda are inscribed in English these words:

1939 - 1945 HERE ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF TWENTY-SEVEN THOUSAND SOLDIERS OF MANY RACES UNITED IN SERVICE TO THE BRITISH CROWN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN BURMA AND ASSAM BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE CUSTOMARY RITES ACCORDED TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH

Also engraved on the rotunda in English, Burmese, Hindi, Urdu and Gurmukhi is the additional inscription:

THEY DIED FOR ALL FREE MEN

The Rangoon Memorial bears the names of almost 27,000 men of the Commonwealth land forces who died during the campaigns in Burma (now Myanmar) and who have no known grave.

The memorial stands in Taukkyan War Cemetery, which is the largest of the three war cemeteries in Burma. It was begun in 1951 for the reception of graves from four battlefield cemeteries at Akyab, Mandalay, Meiktila and Sahmaw which were difficult to access and could not be maintained. The graves have been grouped together at Taukkyan to preserve the individuality of these battlefield cemeteries. Burials were also transferred from civil and cantonment cemeteries, and from a number of isolated jungle and roadside sites. The cemetery now contains 6,374 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 867 of them unidentified. In the 1950s, the graves of 52 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War were brought into the cemetery from cemeteries where permanent maintenance was not possible.

There are three CWGC war cemeteries and one Memorial to the Missing in Myanmar, formerly Burma. All three cemeteries contain Australian war dead.

The memorial was designed by Mr. H.J. Brown, ARIBA and unveiled by General Sir Francis Festing, GCB, KBE, DSO on 9 February 1958.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), United Kingdom, is responsible for the official commemoration of all Commonwealth casualties and the maintenance of those commemorations in perpetuity. The CWGC website is: www.cwgc.org.

PY1 Road (formerly Prome Road), Yangon (formerly Rangoon), Myanmar (Burma).

The Rangoon Memorial is situated in the centre of the Taukkyan War Cemetery, which is about 35 kilometres north of Yangon (formerly Rangoon). The cemetery is on PY1 Road (formerly Prome Road), about 15 kilometres from the airport and can be easily seen from the road.