the most amazing experience when the Netherlands Field of Honour Menteng Pulo (Menteng Pulo Ereveld) input is silence. Just inside the gate, the noisy bustle of Jalan Casablanca is, but here, among the silent white grave stones, the sound of motorcycles and scooters has way added to birdsong.
Menteng Pulo Aerial View | Image of PH van der Grinten
Fields of Honor, or war cemeteries, row upon row of nearly identical headstones - some slight differences differences in gender or religion called - on a trimmed sea of grass closely, are a relatively new phenomenon. Considering the fact that humanity has fought wars for thousands of years, the first officially supported Kriegsgräber comes only about 100 years. It was in September 1914 in the first months of World War I, that the commander of the mobile unit of the British Red Cross, Fabian Ware, the lack of any mechanism noted for marking and recording, the graves of those who died in battle. He created an organization within the Red Cross for this purpose. Six months later, Ware was given official recognition work if the unit was part of the British Army as Graves Commission. Just in time, it could be argued from October 1915 had as its the Commission registered more than 31,000 graves of British and Imperial soldiers and 50,000 by May of the following year.
Maybe it's the brutal effectiveness of the technologies used in modern warfare, which revealed the need for registration of the vast number of victims. Start of the 422,000, the campaign, a mere 10,000 returned to France - - Losses on Napoleon's campaign Russia pale, if the totality of the mondial war of 20 th century compared. Until the end of World War I more than 9 million soldiers were killed in November 1918, during WWII for this number 20.9 million - two-thirds, or 14.3 million, on the Allied side and 6.6 million on the page the German / Japanese axis.
in 1917 was the British graves Commission, by Royal Charter, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is rotated. Its tasks are to those who remember that while due to the Commonwealth military service or causes service have died during the war years provided (WWI and II).
Overall, the Commission is responsible for 1.7 million graves and memorials throughout the world. The Commission also under consultation with the relevant governments, more than 40,000 non-Commonwealth war graves and more than 25,000 non-war military and civilian graves.
In Indonesia, the CWGC cares about six graves with 2605 identified and 657 unidentified graves. One of the cemeteries in Menteng Pulo, alongside the Netherlands Ereveld away. Netherlands Oorlogsgravenstichting-OGS (War Graves Foundation) has similar duties and responsibilities, but due to the Netherlands neutrality during the First World War and its smaller size, on a very reduced scale.
OGS has 50,000 graves worldwide, of which 25,000 in Indonesia to seven cemeteries on the island of Java. Originally there were spread 22 Dutch War Cemeteries in the whole archipelago. In the 1960s, however, at the request of the Indonesian government, the tombs on the outer islands were exhumed and reburied in the seven cemeteries on Java. These cemeteries are: Ancol and Menteng Pulo in Jakarta; Candi and Kalibanteng in Semarang; Kembang Kuning in Surabaya; Leuwigajah in Cimahi; and Pandu in Bandung. The other 25,000 graves are spread on five continents in over 50 countries.
The total number of Dutch victims during the Second World War was 180,000, of which only 50,000 have found a place in a war grave. The remaining 130,000 died at sea were nameless buried in mass graves, cremation in concentration camps or were registered as missing.
The Ancol field of honor, contains more than 2,000 graves, is executed to be in or near the place where the were involved in the resistance against the Japanese and in mass graves without registration or recording their names ,
Many of Ancol buried graves grave stones stones ~~ POS = HEADCOMP so bear the inscription GEËXECUTEERD (executed). In cases where the identity of the known were executed, but their remains could not be identified separately, a collective Grave ( VERZAMELGRAF ) was built on the grave stone with his name.
grave stones vary according to religion and gender. For Muslims, a tapered plate with a conical tip in three; buried Christians under a cross, while a cross with rounded ends shows a female Christian; Jewish grave stones are decorated with the Star of David; and Buddhist Stones are just plates with a rounded tip
Christian grave stones both male and female. | Photo by P. H. van der Grinten
Unlike the vast majority of public civil cemeteries where graves are rented for a limited time, the fields of honor are evermore. A plaque on Ereveld Menteng Pulo states:
, the land on which the cemetery is, is a gift from the people of Indonesia for the final resting place of the sailors, soldiers and airmen who be honored here .
This is very happy, this quiet but sad little corner of Jakarta produces strong emotions. Not only the relatives are buried of, the third generation, emotionally affected, but casual visitors without family ties are affected by its sheer size and the real and serious atmosphere. Row upon row of white grave stones, with dates of death during four years that far too many "unknown" where a name should be, do you realize how tremendously wasteful war.
OGS developed an excellent website with a searchable database with the names of the dead and the cemetery burial. The database is on https://oorlogsgravenstichting.nl. CWGC operates a similar database on http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead.aspx.
In 2015, approximately 10,000 people visited one or more of the seven OGS cemeteries.
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