IN MEMORY OF

Private LAWRENCE EDWARD LOLLBACK

2601, 41st Bn., Australian Infantry, A.I.F
who died in WW1.
on Wednesday 1 August 1917. age 26 years.

Son of George and Catherine Hannah Elizabeth
(nee Hancock) Lollback
of Wyan, New South Wales, Australia

Remembered with honour
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

Grave or reference panel numbers 7. 17. 23. 25. 27. 29. 31.



Ypres (now Ieper) is a town in the Province of WYpres (now Ieper) is a town in
the Province of West Flanders. The Memorial is situated at the eastern side of
the town on the road to Menin (Menen) and Courtrai (Kortrijk). est Flanders.
The Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town on the road to Menin (Menen) and Courtrai (Kortrijk). Each night at 8 pm the traffic is stopped at the Menin Gate while members of the local Fire Brigade sound the Last Post in the roadway under the Memorial's arches.

The Panel Numbers quoted at the end of each entry relate to the panels
dedicated to the Regiment served with. In some instances where a casualty
is recorded as attached to another Regiment, his name may alternatively
appear within their Regimental Panels.

Please refer to the on-site Memorial Register Introduction to determine the
alternative panel numbers if you do not find the name within the quoted Panels.

The Menin Gate is one of four memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders
which cover the area known as the Ypres Salient. Broadly speaking, the Salient
stretched from Langemarck in the north to the northern edge in Ploegsteert Wood in the south, but it varied in area and shape throughout the war.

The Salient was formed during the First Battle of Ypres in October and November 1914, when a small British Expeditionary Force succeeded in securing the town before the onset of winter, pushing the German forces back to the Passchendaele Ridge.

The Second Battle of Ypres began in April 1915 when the Germans released
poison gas into the Allied lines north of Ypres. This was the first time gas had
been used by either side and the violence of the attack forced an Allied withdrawal and a shortening of the line of defence. There was little more significant activity on this front until 1917, when in the Third Battle of Ypres an offensive was mounted by Commonwealth forces to divert German attention from a weakened French front further south.

The initial attempt in June to dislodge the Germans from the Messines Ridge was a complete success, but the main assault north-eastward, which began at the end of July, quickly became a dogged struggle against determined opposition and the rapidly deteriorating weather.

The campaign finally came to a close in November with the capture of
Passchendaele. The German offensive of March 1918 met with some initial
success, but was eventually checked and repulsed in a combined effort by the
Allies in September.

The battles of the Ypres Salient claimed many lives on both sides and it quickly
became clear that the commemoration of members of the Commonwealth forces with no known grave would have to be divided between several different sites. The site of the Menin Gate was chosen because of the hundreds of thousands of men who passed through it on their way to the battlefields.

It commemorates those of all Commonwealth nations except New Zealand
who died in the Salient before 16 August 1917. Those United Kingdom and
New Zealand servicemen who died after that date are named on the memorial
at Tyne Cot, a site which marks the furthest point reached by Commonwealth
forces in Belgium until nearly the end of the war. Other New Zealand casualties
are commemorated on memorials at Buttes New British Cemetery and
Messines Ridge British Cemetery. The YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
now bears the names of more than 54,000 officers and men whose graves
are not known.

The memorial, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield with sculpture by
Sir William Reid-Dick, was unveiled by Lord Plumer in July 1927.


In Memory of

Private CHARLES JOSEPH HENRY LOLLBACK

NX72751, A.I.F. 2/20 Bn., Australian Infantry
who died in WW2.
on Monday 9 February 1942. age 27 years.

 Son of Joseph George and Mary Harriet Lollback,
of Grafton, New South Wales, Australia.

Remembered with honour
KRANJI WAR CEMETERY

Grave or reference panel number Sp.  Mem.  4. E.  18.


Kranji War Cemetery is 22 kilometres north of the city of Singapore, on the north side of Singapore Island overlooking the Straits of Johore. It is just off the Singapore-Johore road (Woodlands Road) at the milestone 13 1/2, and there is a short approach road from the main road.

The Cemetery is known locally as Kranji Memorial and one must be sure of the
address before boarding a taxi as most taxi drivers do not know the Cemetery.
There are also bus stops on the main road facing the Cemetery. An MRT terminal will be found a short distance from the Cemetery.

The cemetery is constructed on a hill with the means of access being via three
flights of steps, rising over four metres from the road level.

Before 1939 the Kranji area was a military camp and at the time of the Japanese invasion of Malaya, it was the site of a large ammunition magazine.

On 8 February 1942, the Japanese crossed the Johore Straits in strength, landing at the mouth of the Kranji River within two miles of the place where the
war cemetery now stands. On the evening of 9 February, they launched an attack between the river and the causeway.

During the next few days fierce fighting ensued, in many cases hand to hand, until their greatly superior numbers and air strength necessitated a withdrawal. After the fall of the island, the Japanese established a prisoner of war camp at Kranji and eventually a hospital was organised nearby at Woodlands.

After the reoccupation of Singapore, the small cemetery started by the prisoners at Kranji was developed into a permanent war cemetery by the Army Graves Service when it became evident that a larger cemetery at Changi could not remain undisturbed.

Changi had been the site of the main prisoner of war camp in Singapore
and a large hospital had been set up there by the Australian Infantry Force.
In 1946, the graves were moved from Changi to Kranji, as were those from the
Buona Vista prisoner of war camp. Many other graves from all parts of the island were transferred to Kranji together with all Second World War graves from Saigon Military Cemetery in French Indo-China (now Vietnam), another site where permanent maintenance could not be assured.

The Commission later brought in graves of both World Wars from Bidadari Christian Cemetery, Singapore, where again permanent maintenance was not possible. There are now 4,458 Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War buried or commemorated at KRANJI WAR CEMETERY. More than 850 of the burials are unidentified.

The Chinese Memorial in Plot 44 marks a collective grave for 69 Chinese servicemen, all members of the Commonwealth forces, who were killed by the Japanese during the occupation in February 1942.

First World War burials and commemorations number 64, including special
memorials to three casualties known to have been buried in civil cemeteries in
Saigon and Singapore, but whose graves could not be located.

Within Kranji War Cemetery stands the SINGAPORE MEMORIAL, bearing the names of over 24,000 casualties of the Commonwealth land and air forces who have no known grave. The land forces commemorated by the memorial died during the campaigns in Malaya and Indonesia or in subsequent captivity, many of them during the construction of the Burma-Thailand railway, or at sea while being transported into imprisonment elsewhere. The memorial also commemorates airmen who died during operations over the whole of southern and eastern Asia and the surrounding seas and oceans.

The SINGAPORE (UNMAINTAINABLE GRAVES) MEMORIAL, which stands at the western end of the Singapore Memorial, commemorates more than 250 casualties who died in campaigns in Singapore and Malaya, whose known graves in civil cemeteries could not be assured maintenance and on religious grounds could not be moved to a war cemetery.

The SINGAPORE CREMATION MEMORIAL, which stands immediately behind the Singapore Memorial, commemorates almost 800 casualties, mostly of the Indian forces, whose remains were cremated in accordance with their religious beliefs.

The SINGAPORE CIVIL HOSPITAL GRAVE MEMORIAL stands at the eastern end of the Singapore Memorial. During the last hours of the Battle of Singapore,
wounded civilians and servicemen taken prisoner by the Japanese were brought to the hospital in their hundreds. The number of fatalities was such that burial in the normal manner was impossible.

Before the war, an emergency water tank had been dug in the grounds of the
hospital and this was used as a grave for more than 400 civilians and
Commonwealth servicemen.

After the war, it was decided that as individual identification of the dead would be impossible, the grave should be left undisturbed. The grave was suitably enclosed, consecrated by the Bishop of Singapore, and a cross in memory of all of those buried there was erected over it by the military authorities. The 107 Commonwealth casualties buried in the grave are commemorated on the
Singapore Civil Hospital Grave Memorial.

Kranji War Cemetery and the Singapore Memorial were designed by
Colin St Clair Oakes. Adjoining Kranji War Cemetery is KRANJI MILITARY CEMETERY, a substantial non-world war site of 1,378 burials, created in 1975 when it was found necessary to remove the graves of servicemen and their families from Pasir Panjang and Ulu Pandan cemeteries.

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