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.
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
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.
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
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