LEAVING CHELTENHAM …………..and all that was dear |
Cheltonians Buried in War Graves or Commemorated On Memorials in Asia and the Far East |
14 Cheltonians are buried and/or commemorated in 11 Cemeteries or on 5 Memorials in the Far East
Delhi War Cemetery, India Copyright and source – Commonwealth War Graves Commission |
Cemetery/Memorial in Burma |
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Special Memorial 27.J.2 in Taukkyan War Cemetery |
Captain Edmund Marsden (Note 10) |
Cemeteries/Memorials in India |
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Calcutta (Bhowanipore) Cemetery, India |
Major Stafford Reichel Reeves |
Delhi Memorial, India Gate, India |
Dvr Arthur Henry Burrows (Note 2) |
Kirkee 1914 – 1918 War Memorial, India |
Sgt Percy Henry Brill (Note 5) Capt Eric Whitmore Fisher (Note 6) Pte Edgar Biggerstaff Gibbs (Note 7) Major Gerald Alister Jamieson (Note 8) 2Lt Cedric Donovan Upstone (Note 9) |
Bolarum Cavalry barracks Cemetery, Secunderabad |
Pte Lasford King (Note 10) |
Cemeteries/Memorials in Pakistan (Pre-Partition India) |
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Karachi War Memorial, Pakistan |
Major Edmund Arthur Swinhoe (Note 4) |
Kaur Cemetery, Dera Ismail Khan |
Captain Piercy John McQueen Mottram (Note 3) |
Rawalpindi War Cemetery, Pakistan |
LCpl Charles Henry Leach Pte Frederick Waghorne |
Cemetery in Singapore |
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Kranji War Cemetery |
Captain Francis Vallance Izard |
Notes: 1. Those who are buried in India and Pakistan where maintenance of their grave is not possible, are commemorated on Memorials nearest to the location of the grave. 2. Dvr Burrows is buried in the Peshawar (Right) British Cemetery, India. 3. Capt Mottram is buried in the Kaur Cemetery, Dera Ismail Khan, now Pakistan (pre-partition India) and commemorated on the Delhi Memorial, India Gate, India. 4. Maj Swinhoe is buried in Sialkot East Cemetery, now Pakistan. 5. Sgt Brill is buried in the Simla Old Cemetery, India. 6. Capt Fisher was buried in the Bombay (Sewri) Cemetery, India until 1962 when his body was re-interred in a mass grave at Kirkee War Cemetery. 7. Pte Gibbs is buried in the Jubbulpore Cantonment Cemetery, India. 8. Major Jamieson is buried in Bombay (Sewri) Cemetery, India until 1962 when his body was re-interred in a mass grave at Kirkee War Cemetery. 9. 2Lt Upstone is buried in Bombay (Sewri) Cemetery, India until 1962 when his body was re-interred in a mass grave at Kirkee War Cemetery. 10. Capt Marsden died and was buried at Myitkyina, Burma (now Myanmar). |
Page last updated: 22nd August 2016
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