1940s
Paper
Gift of the Cordingly Family, on behalf of Reverend Eric Cordingly
2021-00021
Collection of the National Museum of Singapore

Reverend Cordingly’s burial returns book records the many deaths that he presided over as a chaplain in Changi and on the Thai-Burma Railway. Cordingly buried more than 600 men during his time as a POW; in May 1942, he officiated at five or six burials each week.