A cenotaph a Bangkok

Idan ina da sha'awa guda ɗaya banda ƙaunataccen matata Noi, tarihin soja ne gabaɗaya da kuma yakin duniya na farko.

Ba don komai ba ne gudunmawata ta farko ga Thailandblog ta kasance game da - kusan mantawa - Siam Expeditionary Force (SEF), gudunmawar sojan Siamese ga yunƙurin yaƙin Allied. Daga nan sai na mai da hankali kan abin tunawa da WWI na kasar Thailand, wani Chedi kusa da Sanaam Luang inda aka toka tokar wadanda suka mutu na SEF. Bangkok, wato Birtaniya Cenotaph. Cenotaph shine AF abin tunawa da bacewar sojojin da aka binne a wani waje. Mafi shahara babu shakka shine cenotaph dama a gaba  Whitehall aka kafa a London, inda shekara-shekara Ranar tunawa bikin zai gudana ne a ranar 11 ga Nuwamba.

Wanda ke Bangkok ya tsaya a harabar ofishin jakadancin Burtaniya a mahadar Ploenchit da Witthayu Road har zuwa lokacin bazara na 2018. A cikin 2017, ofishin jakadancin tare da filaye masu rakiyar ya samu ta hanyar Ofishin Harkokin Waje  An siyar da shi kan adadi sama da biliyan 18 na wanka ga Babban Rukunin, mafi girman ciniki a Bangkok. Saboda gaskiyar cewa cenotaph ya daina shiga cikin tsare-tsaren sabon mai wannan rukunin yanar gizon, an sake komawa wurin tunawa da yakin watannin da suka gabata a shafin yanar gizon. British Club a babban birnin kasar Thailand.

An sadaukar da cenotaph a ranar 10 ga Oktoba, 1922 a kan yankin sabuwar Ofishin Jakadancin Burtaniya da aka gina. Wanda ya zana shi ne sculptor dan Scotland Sir James Taggart (1849-1929). Baya ga kasancewarsa marubucin tatsuniyoyi da tatsuniyoyi da dama, Taggart tsohon soja ne. Ubangiji Laftanar na Aberdeen da kuma lokacin Babban Yaƙin - duk da yawan shekarunsa - Admiral na Tekun Arewa. An zana bikin tunawa da shi daga wani shinge mai ƙarfi guda ɗaya na granite a cikin bitarsa ​​a Babban Titin Yamma a Aberdeen kuma an tura shi zuwa Bangkok a lokacin rani na 1922. Asalinsa yana tsakiya ne a cikin wani lawn bayan ƙofar shiga ofishin jakadancin, amma a shekara ta 2007 an ɗauke shi zuwa wani wuri a gaban gidan jakadan Burtaniya. Bikin na tunawa da mutanen Birtaniyya 25 da ke aiki a ofishin jakadanci ko ofishin jakadancin ko kuma wadanda ke zaune a Siam a matsayin ’yan gudun hijira kuma suka mutu a aikin bayar da umarni.

Yawancin waɗannan sun mutu a filayen Flanders. Ina so in yi tunani a kan makomar ukun su. Soja mai tauri a cikin hoton tare da Glengary hula (wanda na yi godiya ga ayyukan London Gidan Tarihi na Tarihi iya amfani) misali Hon. Robert Abercromby Forbes-Sempill, ɗan huɗu na 17th Scottish Baron Sempill. Kafin yakin daga 1897 zuwa 1912 a Siam, ya kasance manaja na kungiyar Bombay & Burma Bank aiki. A lokacin barkewar yaƙi, kamar dukan ’yan’uwansa, ya shiga aikin soja, kuma bayan ya isa Ingila bayan yawo a watan Nuwamba na shekara ta 1914, sai aka ba shi mukamin Laftana a Bataliya ta 5. Gordon Highlanders. A cikin wannan rukunin ne aka kashe shi a ranar 2 ga Yuni, 1915 a kusa da garin Festubert na Faransa da Flemish mai tashe-tashen hankula. A halin yanzu yana hutawa a makabartar CWGC a Le Touret a ƙarƙashin epitaph'Ni mutumin Graigievar ne',  ambaton makullin dangin kakanni.

Mutumin da ke cikin hoto na biyu shine Alfred Charles Elborough. Jim kadan kafin barkewar Babban Yakin ya yi aiki da shi Hongkong & Shanghai Bank a Hong Kong da kuma Bangkok. Ranar 31 ga Agusta, 1914, ya shiga cikin Bindigan Mawaƙi kuma a farkon watan Disamba 1914 - yayin da yake cikin horo - an nada shi laftanar na biyu a bataliya ta 6  Ƙarƙashin Ƙarƙashin Ƙarƙashin Ƙarƙashin Ƙarƙashin Ƙarƙashin Ƙarƙashin Ƙarƙashin Ƙarƙashin Ƙasar Yorkshire. A wannan watan, Fred Elborough ya sami matsayi na kyaftin, babban ci gaba mai sauri ga wanda ba shi da kwarewar soja. Amma idan kun san cewa a cikin bazara na 1915 wani ƙaramin jami'in gaban Burtaniya yana da matsakaicin makonni uku kafin a kawar da shi, to bai kamata irin wannan haɓaka ya zama abin mamaki ba.

Fred Elborough ya ji rauni sosai a cikin kirji da kafafu a ranar 30 ga Yuli, 1915, yayin wani aikin tallafi a daya daga cikin wurare masu zafi mafi hatsari a gaban Yamma, a Hooge a cikin Ypres Salient. Nan take ya zama Tasha Mai Lalata Jama'a Na 10 ya kawo kusa da Poperinge inda ya rasu jim kadan bayan isowarsa. Ana tunawa da Elborough akan cenotaph a Bangkok, amma an ba shi wurin hutawa na ƙarshe a Flanders Fields, akan rukunin CWGC Lijsenthoek a Poperinge, wanda har yanzu ana ziyarta sosai a yau, a cikin kabari IA 6.

a Bienvillers kusa da Faransa-Flemish Arras shine wurin hutawa na ƙarshe na Laftanar William Reginald Dibbs, MC. Wani jami'in X-37th Trench Turmi Baturi, Royal Field Artillery (RFA) wanda ya mutu a wannan yanki a lokacin babban harin bazara na Jamus na 1918, ranar 27 ga Mayu don zama daidai. An yi aiki da Dibbs a arewacin Thailand daga 1899 ta hanyar Bombay & Burmah Trading Company aiki a matsayin mai kula da gandun daji, musamman a cikin sana'ar teak mai fa'ida sosai. A cikin Disamba 1915, bayan yawo da yawa, ya sami damar isa London inda ya sadaukar da kansa a matsayin mai aikin sa kai na yaki yana da shekaru 39. A lokacin zamansa a Western Front an ba shi lambar yabo ta Giciyen soja. Labarin rayuwa mai ban sha'awa na Laftanar Dibbs an buga shi a ƴan shekaru da suka wuce ta jikansa, Farfesa. Em. K. Wattananikorn akan gidan yanar gizon sa mai karantawa 'Tafiyar kakannina a fadin nahiyoyi uku 1792-2012'.