India Gate Memorial, New

Dehli, India
This monument was
built by the British
between 1921 and
1931 to
commemorate 82,000
dead soldiers of the
British Indian Army
who died in war
between 1914 and
1921 (including the
First World War)
13,218 names are
listed on the India
Gate.
 Inscription on the monument
INDIA MCMXIV (1914) (to) MCMXIX (1919)
TO THE DEAD OF THE INDIAN ARMIES WHO FELL
HONOURED IN FRANCE AND FLANDERS
MESOPOTAMIA AND PERSIA EAST AFRICA
GALLIPOLI AND ELSEWHERE IN THE NEAR AND
THE FAR-EAST AND IN SACRED MEMORY ALSO
OF THOSE WHOSE NAMES ARE RECORDED AND
WHO FELL IN INDIA OR THE NORTH-WEST
FRONTIER AND DURING THE THIRD AFGHAN
WAR
 How might people respond to the India
Gate?

• pride • gratitude,
• indifference • guilt
• happiness,
• awe
• anger
• sadness
The Chattri Memorial,
Brighton
During the First World
War soldiers of the British
Indian Army were treated
for their wounds in
British hospitals including
Brighton Pavilion. Hindus
and Sikhs who died had
their bodies cremated
(burned) according to
their religion on a
platform on a hillside
above Brighton. After the
war it became a
memorial.
 Inscription on the monument
To the memory of all Indian soldiers who gave
their lives for the King-Emperor in the Great
War, this monument, erected on the site of the
funeral pyre (fire) where Hindus and Sikhs who
died in hospital at Brighton passed through the
fire, is in grateful admiration and brotherly love
dedicated
Indian Memorial, Neuve-
Chappelle, France
This 1927 British memorial to
soldiers of the British Indian
Army who died on the
Western Front is on the site of
the great battle of Neuve-
Chappelle in France (March
1915) . It commemorates
4742 Indian soldiers whose
bodies were never found. The
column is designed to look
like one of the ancient pillars
set up in India by it`s first
emperor Ashoka. Indian lions
guard the base. Indian
symbols and designs are part
of the monument.
 Inscription on the momument
To the honour of the Army of India which fought
in France and Belgium, 1914-1918, and in
perpetual remembrance of those of their dead
whose names are here recorded and who have
no known grave
WW1 Sikh Memorial,
National Memorial
Arboretum, Staffordshire
This memorial was built as
the result of a campaign
lead by British Sikhs who
raised the money for it by
appealing on the internet.
Around 200 people (and
not just Sikhs) contributed
between £100 and £1,000
each. The British
Government did not pay
for the monument. It was
unveiled on 1st Nov 2015.
 Inscription on the Monument
Dedicated to the memory of the 124,245 Sikh
soldiers of the British Indian Army who fought in
all theatres of the Great War.
They did their duty with honour while keeping
their faith in God, Guru (great Sikh religious
teachers of the past) and Khalsa principles (the
most important points of Sikh religious teaching).
Unveiled on the 1st November 2015.
• How might British people have felt
seeing the monument in 1922 (if it had
existed then?)
• How might British people feel seeing the
monument today?
 Woking Burial Ground 1915-1918

In 1915 the British Government built a special burial ground in Woking to take the bodies of Muslim soldiers of the British Indian Army who died of their wounds in Britain. The buildings were designed in an Indian style. The Iman of the Woking Mosque (the first mosque to be built in the UK) was paid to bury them and give them a proper Muslim funeral. Two slabs were placed in the ground which may have been used for Muslim prayer.
 Woking Burial Ground 1918-1969
The nearly twenty Muslim soldiers buried there mainly came
from the mountain areas of the North West Frontier Province of
India, in what is now Pakistan. The headstones were designed in
Islamic style and more Muslim soldiers were buried there during
the Second World War. In 1969 the 27 graves were vandalised
and moved to the nearby Brookwood Military Cemetery where
they remain.
Woking Burial Ground 1969-2015
After 1969 the buildings of the Woking Burial
Ground remained standing. However they
became damaged with bits of stonework falling
off.
 How Woking Borough Council wanted the
Muslim Burial Ground restored
• The 27 original graves could not be returned
• The buildings and stonework must be in good
condition
• The place should make visitors respect the memory
of the Muslim soldiers who were once buried there
• It should inform visitors about who the soldiers
were
• The grass area inside the Burial Ground could be
used in different ways.
 IMAGE CREDITS
• Slide 8 – WW1 Sikh Memorial, National
Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire. Courtesy
QANC.com
• Slides 14 to 23 Andrew Wrenn