christine liava'a Posted 15 March , 2004 Share Posted 15 March , 2004 Remembering Today: Dvr HUSAIN BAKHSH, 1360 3rd Mule Corps, who died on 15.03.16. Monastir Road Indian Memorial, Greece Cemetery: MONASTIR ROAD INDIAN MEMORIAL Country: Greece Locality: unspecified Visiting Information: Visitors should contact the Local Supervisor for additional help and to collect keys because the cemetery is now kept locked. Location Information: The Memorial is within the Monastir Road Indian Cemetery and is 3 kilometres from the centre of Thessaloniki on the main road to Edessa. It is situated near a level crossing and is well sign-posted. Historical Information: The cemetery was made between 1916 and 1920, and is made up of two plots - the southern plot, containing burials, and the northern plot, in which the remains of over 200 Indian servicemen were cremated in accordance with their faith. The men served mainly with the Royal Artillery, the Transport Corps of Bharatpur and Indore, the Mule Corps and, after 1918, certain Indian regiments. There are now 357 Indian servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. The northern plot contains a memorial with panels bearing the names of those who were cremated. The cemetery also contains the Monastir Road Indian Memorial, bearing the names of over 160 Indian servicemen who died in Macedonia during the First World War, whose graves could not be marked or moved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christine liava'a Posted 15 March , 2004 Author Share Posted 15 March , 2004 Indian Mule Train (at Gallipoli); AWN photo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christine liava'a Posted 15 March , 2004 Author Share Posted 15 March , 2004 Map of Salonica Monastir in top left hand corner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christine liava'a Posted 15 March , 2004 Author Share Posted 15 March , 2004 Salonica in Greece Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christine liava'a Posted 15 March , 2004 Author Share Posted 15 March , 2004 The Polyglot Army in the Balkans top from left Annamite, Frenchman, Senegalese, Englishman, Russian, Italian, Serbian front right;Cretan, British Indian http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/memoir/Salonica/salon6.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pete Wood Posted 15 March , 2004 Share Posted 15 March , 2004 What an interesting photo, Christine. Because if you look at http://www.1914-1918.org/forum/index.php?s...5261&hl=senegal you'll notice that these men are the same chaps used for the Chistmas in Salonika postcard - it was the Russian chap who I recognised. I wonder why the soldier from Crete was not selected for the postcard..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christine liava'a Posted 15 March , 2004 Author Share Posted 15 March , 2004 Yes I recognized it too. I actually prefer this one-less posed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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