Mass grave at Block 1 Division C plot 19

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It started with tomb keeper, Soh Ah Beng helping to upright a small plot granite with the number 19 while we are at Block 1 Division C. This small granite stones are common plot marker stones that you will see when you explore around Bukit Brown. There is also a tomb nearby this marker with the plot number 19A etched on its headstone. The person buried there according the burial registrar is Mr. Teo Wha Key who passed away on 13 April 1942 (a wartime grave).

Granite plot 19 unpacks an interesting story of mass grave

Granite plot marker number 19.

So much space in between marker 19 and the tomb 19A

It was Raymond Goh that alerted us after checking the burial registrar for 13 and 14 April 1942 that this area is possibly a mass grave which explains the large amount of space between the plot marker and tomb 19A. From the burial registrar there is evidence of this, with a total of 6 souls buried here. What is for sure is the following are buried here with only 19A with tombstone and no tombstone / headstone for 19B and 19C

Teo Wha Key (30 years old) -plot 19A
? Seow Hwee (18 years old) - plot 19B
Chan Ah Mui (34 years old) - plot 19C

In the same page there were also more burial entries for the same plot 19, but this time for little children. The structure of identification was not an alphabet behind but rather 19.2 , 19.3 and 19.4. What is however consistent is that all 3 are children. The theory is all 3 are buried in 1 plot shared by this 3 souls

Ng Seow Poh's child (13 days old) - plot 19.2
Phang See Leck (1 year 10 months) -plot 19.3
Chua Peng Yuan (11 months) - plot 19.4

Burial records of Block 1 Section, plot 19

I have shared before, evidence of children sharing a plot before (see further reading) but this find is very interesting, as it is a war time plot, where possibly adults and children sharing an enlarged plot - with total of 6 souls buried together.