Commission unveils new Indian memorial
04 October 2010
On Sunday 26th September 2010, a new memorial, paying tribute to
53 Sikh and Hindu soldiers who died during the First World War, was
unveiled.
The memorial, built by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission,
lists the names of those soldiers who were cremated at a funeral
pyre site, known as a ghatt, on the hills overlooking Brighton. The
new memorial sits alongside the existing Brighton Chattri, which
was built after the Great War and which pays tribute to all those
Indian soldiers who died fighting for the British Empire.