Burial corner for Indian Soldiers

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A total of 74287 Indian soldiers died in WWI. Indian soldiers were primarily Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims. The funeral rites of Hindus & Sikhs is cremation while Muslims is burial. So most of the identified Hindu and Sikh soldiers were cremated according to their rites & customs. The identified Muslim soldiers have their dedicated graves. Soldiers who were only identified as Indians (with the help of their uniform etc), also have graves that mentions 'An Indian Soldier of the Great War'. Soldiers were always buried in the cemetery closest to the place where their body was found. I visited the Bedford House Cemetery and it has a corner dedicated for the Indian soldiers and here were 20 burials of which 1 was Hindu, 6 were Muslims and 13 were unidentified.

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