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″N35°13′20″E / 31.749308°N 35.222136°E / 31.749308; 35.222136 near  Jerusalem, Israel
Designed by	John James Burnet
Burials by war
World War I
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] [ failed verification ]}

References

1. Moti Ben-Ari, "Indian War Cemetery Rehov Korei Hadorot, Talpiot", The Jerusalem Post , 5 December 2008
2. Wikimapia
3. "Jerusalem Indian War Cemetery", Commonwealth War Graves Commission
4. Oren Kessler, "In Israel and Palestinian Territories, British still tend memory of 16,000 war dead", Tablet , 11 November 2013, retrieved 18 February 2023
5. 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