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Burma Star Island
In 1968 the island in the middle of the lake was re-levelled and landscaped with new paths and seats, and dedicated as a permanent Memorial to the Allied Forces who fought in the Burma Campaign during World War II. The Memorial Stone, which was transported from the excavations of the ICI Works at Runcorn, has the famous Kohima epitaph:-

 "When you go home tell them of us and say
 for their tomorrow we gave our today"
 
One of the Park's largest crowds attended the dedication with military attaché from many Countries, together with an American Air Force Band, flown in from Germany.

During the last war, both the flowerbeds and greenhouses contributed towards community welfare, producing seedlings of various vegetables. In 1941, approximately 35,000 onions and crops consisting of 1,049lbs of tomatoes and 512 cucumbers were grown, all of which were sold to 3,470 local people.
Burma Star Memorial