GAUHATI WAR CEMETERY
HISTORY INFORMATION
Gauhati War Cemetery was started during the Second World War for burials from the several military hospitals posted in the area. Later, other graves were brought in by the Army Graves Service from Amari Bari Military Cemetery, Sylhet Military Cemetery, Mohachara Cemetery, Nowgong Civil Cemetery and Gauhati Civil Cemetery, where permanent maintenance could not be assured. For the same reason, further graves were brought to the cemetery from isolated sites in the Lushai Hills and from civil cemeteries in Badarpur, Cooch Bahar, Darjeeling, Dhubri, Dibrugarh, Dinjan, Katapahar, Lebong, Lumding, Shillong and Silchar, in 1952.
There are now 486 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 25 of the burials are unidentified. The cemetery also contains 24 Chinese war graves, and two non-war graves.
SURNAME
Polkinghorne
FORENAME
Eric
UNIT
44 Commando
RANK
Marine
NUMBER
PLY/X 103548
DATE OF DEATH
27th May 1944
AGE
22
GRAVESITE
Gauhati War Cemetery,India 4.E.12
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
son of Thomas Dawe and Dorcas Eddy Polkinghorne,Liskeard,Cornwall
died India
SURNAME
Nelson
FORENAME
Desmond
UNIT
44 Commando
RANK
Marine
NUMBER
PO/X 102790
DATE OF DEATH
21st July 1944
AGE
GRAVESITE
Gauhati War Cemetery,India 4.E.17
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
died India
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