The cemetery at Chungkai hosts the graves of 1,426 British and 313 Dutch servicemen who died during World War II.

The cemetery is built on the site of a prisoner of war camp used by the Japanese army to house Allied POWs during the conflict.

[3][4] In 1946, it was decided to re-bury the Burma Railway deaths which were buried in many graveyards along the line in three large cemeteries.

It was located 57 kilometres from the beginning of the line,[12] at the edge of the jungle near the Mae Klong River.

[13] The first prisoners arrived in October 1942,[14] and were tasked to work on the bridges at Tamarkan and the section up to Wun Lun,[14] at kilometre 68.