Amara Indian War Cemetery

Plan of the British cemetery with the Indian cemetery shown below.

The Amara Indian War Cemetery is a military cemetery in Amarah, southern Iraq, which contains the graves of more than 5,000 Indian soldiers who died during the First World War.

History

The cemetery is located immediately to the south of one of the branches of the River Tigris where it splits at Amarah in an area that was seized by the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force during the First World War.^[1] Amarah became a major hospital centre with medical detachments on both sides of the river and seven general hospitals. ^[2] The Indian cemetery is immediately to the south of the British Amara War Cemetery.

Condition

In April 2016, Martin Fletcher of The Times in Amara, reported that the cemetery was in poor condition.^[3]

References

1. Reassessing consequences of occupation in Iraq. Wassim Bassem, Al-Monitor, 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
2. AMARA WAR CEMETERY. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
3. "British war graves left to crumble in the dust", Martin Fletcher, The Times, 25 April 2016, pp. 14-15.

External links

• http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/britain-at-war/10438147/Iraq-cemetery-containing-graves-of-British-servicemen-is-destroyed.html