Jerusalem Indian War Cemetery
| Jerusalem Indian War Cemetery | |
|---|---|
| Commonwealth War Graves Commission | |
Jerusalem Indian War Cemetery | |
| Used for those deceased July 1918-July 1920 | |
| Location | 31°44′58″N 35°13′20″E / 31.749308°N 35.222136°E near Jerusalem, Israel |
| Designed by | John James Burnet |
| Burials by war | |
| Statistics source: Cemetery details. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. | |
The Jerusalem Indian War Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in Jerusalem for fallen servicemen of India in the World War I.
The cemetery is located in the southern neighbourhood of Talpiot, on Korei HaDorot Street.[1][2] It contains the mass grave of 79 Indian soldiers from the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, as well as the graves of 290 Turkish prisoners of war.[3][4] Other war dead, many of them Arab workers employed by the expeditionary corps,[5] are buried in three more separate cemeteries: the Latin (Catholic) Cemetery and the Protestant Cemetery (likely those from Mount Zion), and the Bab Sitna Mariam Muslim cemetery next to the Lions' Gate.[3]
References
- ^ Moti Ben-Ari, "Indian War Cemetery Rehov Korei Hadorot, Talpiot", The Jerusalem Post, 5 December 2008
- ^ Wikimapia
- ^ a b "Jerusalem Indian War Cemetery", Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- ^ Oren Kessler, "In Israel and Palestinian Territories, British still tend memory of 16,000 war dead", Tablet, 11 November 2013, retrieved 18 February 2023
- ^ John Starling, Ivor Lee, No Labour, No Battle: Military Labour During the First World War, The History Press, 2014 ISBN 9780750958790
External links
- Media related to Jerusalem Indian War Cemetery at Wikimedia Commons