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Roorkee Old Christian Cemetery
Date transcribed | 2016-02-25 | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | Comment | WANT A PHOTOGRAPH OF ONE OF THESE HEADSTONES?
This is one of the graveyards for which FIBIS commissioned Mr Rajat Sharma to take photographs and details of all legible headstones. All inscriptions are included wherever they are legible.
If you would like to order copies of photographs of any headstone listed in this index please make a note of the Image Reference and order copies on our Cemeteries Project page where you will also find more details about this exciting project.
NOTE that the address of this cemetery is Right Bank Canal Road, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, and its co-ordinates are:
29 deg. 51.347 min. N
77 deg. 52.525 min. E |
| Image Ref. | 265 | | Surname | Croucher | | First Name | Christopher Clement | | Rank | Bombardier | | Regiment | Royal Artillery | | Date of Death | 15 June 1921 | | Inscription | To the Glory of God and Sacred to the Memory of our dear comrades who have given their lives for their country during the stay of the battery in India, November 1919 to September 1921. 39170 Gunner Frederick William Pepper, died at Multan, 8-4-1920. 5659 Gunner James Smith, died at Multan, 14-6-1920. 29749 L/Sergeant John McCrow, died at Pashawar, 23-7-1920. 230742 Driver Alexander Dalziel Wightman, died Multan, 20-9-1920. 293103 Driver John Falconer, died at Multan, 13-12-20. 14025413 Gunner Richard Fair, died at Roorkee, 5-6-1921. 14032391 Bombardier William Newland, died in Action at Ladha, N.W.F., 23-6-1921. 1411389 Bombardier Christopher Clement Croucher, died at Ladha N.W.F. , 15-6-1921. |
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Photos and details of Inscriptions of tombstones taken at Roorkee, Uttarakhand, formerly United Provinces.
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