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STRASBOURG SOUTHERN COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Bas Rhin

France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 48.54383, Longitude: 7.756496

Location Information

The Southern Communal Cemetery is on the southern outskirts of the town, about 1 kilometre east of the main road to Colmar. It contains the graves of 2 soldiers of undivided India who died while prisoners of war.
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History Information

Strasbourg, the capital of the province of Alsace-Lorraine, which was the subject of contention between the French and the Germans in the Franco-Prussian War, is a large fortified town in north-eastern France, near the German border. It fell to the Germans in 1870 and was re-won in 1918, during the First World War. Strasbourg is the seat of the Prefecture of the Department of the Bas Rhin, and has a fine cathedral and university. It has good road and rail communications with Paris and the towns in north-eastern France.


Burial Details


14600 Sapper Muhammad Ali, 35 Field Squadron, King George V's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners, died 23rd September 1943, aged 36. Son of Fateh Din and Sahib Ji, of Sultanpur, Jhelum, Pakistan; husband of Amina Bi, of Sultanpur.

27154 Driver Samundar Khan, 22 Mule Company, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, died 11th August 1943, aged 33. Son of Fateh Din, of Nar, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, husband of Ajaib Jan, of Nar.


Pictures © Conrad Freeling


Strasbourg Southern Communal Cemetery
Strasbourg Southern Communal Cemetery
Strasbourg Southern Communal Cemetery
Strasbourg Southern Communal Cemetery

NEARBY CWGC CEMETERIES & MEMORIALS
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STRASBOURG WESTERN COMMUNAL CEMETERY
CRONENBOURG FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY
ERSTEIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY

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Disclaimer


The casualty numbers for each cemetery are taken from the C. W. G. C. site. We are aware that there can be discrepancies in the numbers quoted.
(The G. P. S. Coordinates are also taken from the C. W. G. C. site)


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