Gangman Kala Indian Railway Dept d.17/11/17

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As per CWGC

Name: KALA

Nationality: Indian

Rank: Gangman

Regiment: Indian Railway Department

Date of Death: 17/11/1917

Service No: 38423

Additional information: Son of Mahalli, of Salarpur, Hapur, Meerut, United Provinces.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 59

Cemetery: BASRA MEMORIAL

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& the memorial info

Cemetery: BASRA MEMORIAL

Country: Iraq

Location Information: The Basra Memorial was originally sited within Basra War Cemetery but in 1997 the Memorial was moved by presidential decree. The move, carried out by the authorities in Iraq, involved a considerable amount of manpower, transport costs and sheer engineering on their part, and the Memorial has been re-erected in its entirety. The Basra Memorial is now located 32 kilometres along the road to Nasiriyah, in the middle of what was a major battleground during the Gulf War. The Panel Numbers quoted at the end of each entry relate to the panels dedicated to the Regiment served with. In some instances where a casualty is recorded as attached to another Regiment, his name may alternatively appear within their Regimental Panels. Please refer to the on-site Memorial Register Introduction to determine the alternative panel numbers if you do not find the name within the quoted Panels.

Historical Information: The Basra Memorial bears the names of more than 40,500 members of the Commonwealth forces who died in the operations in Mesopotamia from the Autumn of 1914 to the end of August 1921 and whose graves are not known.

No. of Identified Casualties: 40661