Cenotaph, Penang to commemorate Allied servicemen from Penang who lost their lives in The Great War. The Cenotaph was fashioned as a scaled-down semblance to the Whitehall Cenotaph in London, constructed out of granite blocks and adorned with bronze plaques. The unveiling of the Cenotaph took place during the 1929 Remembrance Day, with Edward, Prince of Wales, in attendance. During the Japanese occupation of Malaya in World War II, the Cenotaph was destroyed during Allied bombings of Penang in 1944 and 1945. Following the end of the war, a team of architects led by Charles Geoffrey Boutcher helped to reconstruct the Cenotaph
Cenotaph, Penang Cenotaph, Penang The Cenotaph, also known as Penang War Memorial, is a cenotaph located at the Esplanade in George Town, Penang, Malaysia. The site of the Cenopath is situated at the shoreline of the Esplanade, at "Jalan Tun Syed Sheh Barakbah" (at a section of street also known as The Esplanade) and "Jalan Padang Kota Lama" (Esplanade Road), by the "padang" (open field) and the City Hall that it fronts. The present Cenotaph is a 1948 reconstruction of the original built in 1929. Designed by Swan & Maclaren and constructed at the cost of $12,000, the original Cenotaph was intended