In memoriam

Delhi Memorial (India Gate)

 

 

The Delhi Memorial (India Gate) stands at the eastern end of the Rajpath, or Kingsway.

Of the 13,300 Commonwealth servicemen commemorated by name on the memorial, just over 1,000 lie in cemeteries to the west of the River Indus, where maintenance was not possible. The remainder died in fighting on or beyond the North West Frontier and during the Third Afghan War, and have no known grave.

The Delhi Memorial also acts as a national memorial to all the 70,000 soldiers of undivided India who died during the years 1914-1921, the majority of whom are commemorated by name outside the confines of India.

One man of the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons Service Squadron, Lieutenant Colonel Athelstan Chamberlayne, is commemorated here.

 

Image kindly provided by Steve Rogers, Project Co-ordinator of the The War Graves Photographic Project, www.twgpp.org. Information sourced from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission www.cwgc.org.