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| From right WILLIAM OLIVER LAMACROFT, Soldier, died 1881, JAMES P GLOVER, JOHN TUNSILL AND PRIVATE xx MOORE ** |
where on my first visit ever to the hill station I chanced
upon the graves of my grand uncle, Edward Thomas
Shepherd and his two sons, Robert and William. That
was in May 2012 when I posted pictures of their
graves and a few more. I felt I had to take one more
look to see what was left because I'd noticed that the
cemetery, though located within the cantonment, was
in a bad condition. It seemed worse this time! One
slab from one grave had been overturned and it
looked as if someone had examined the contents.
Not many people get to look inside an old grave and
fewer still inside a grave filled with shingle because
the area is completely bereft of earth.
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| It just wasn't possible to get the name because the slab was too heavy |
old burial ground, not in use anymore, there was no name but I asked a old hill resident, actually a school friend of mine, Richard Wheeler, from Almora and he said the area was/is known as Kelakhan. He told me he'd
find out the name of the cemetery as well!
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| Looking at the gateway from inside on either side there are the remnants of headstones but no sign of the graves |
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| My grandson, Aden McFarland and his parents in the distance |
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| IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR LITTLE SHEILA BORN 30TH JANUARY 1919 DIED 21ST JULY 1929 ONLY DAUGHTER OF PETER AND NORAH WARREN ----------------- NONE KNEW THEE BUT TO LOVE THEE NONE NAMED THEE BUT TO PRAISE |
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| IN LOVING MEMORY OF DEE ANDERSON DAUGHTER OF ROBERT AND MARGARET ANDERSON PORTADOWN, IRELAND DIED 1ST JULY 1940 |
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| IN MEMORY OF MY DEEPLY LOVED HUSBAND CAPT MARK DARRELL JAMES 83 FIELD BATTERY ROYAL ARTILLERY BORN IN BERMUDA 8 NOV 1896 DIED AT NAINI TAL 2? SEPT 1936 THE RESULT OF A POLO ACCIDENT |
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| CWGC (C'WEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION) HOPKINS L R 29 APRIL 1916 |
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| MANY GRAVES ARE NOW COVERED WITH MOSS AND MUCK |
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| XXXARMY NUMBERXXX PTE G. GOODALL XX ROYAL WEST(?) KENT ARTILLERY DIED NAINITAL NOV ?? 1920 R.I.P. |
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| THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM JAMES THE BELOVED SON OF J.T. AND C (G?) DEAN ASST. APOTHECARY WHO DEPARTED XXX? XXXXXXX? BORN X?X? MAY 1870 XXXX XXX |
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| THIS STONE DOES NOT MARK THE SPOT OF BURIAL. IT LAY IN THE GRASS BESIDE THE GRAVE OF EDWARD T. SHEPHERD, ABOUT 20 METRES FROM THE GATEWAY, WHEN THIS BLOGGER VISITED TWO YEARS AGO. IN TREASURED MEMORY OF MABEL (MABS) DEARLY LOVED WIFE AND SWEETHEART OF CAPT T.G. GRICE (SCOPS?) AND DARLING MOTHER OF CHARMAINE AND ARTHUR WHO FELL ASLEEP IN CHRIST ON 10TH APRIL 1944 AGED 49 YEARS (I was told later that Arthur here is the late Anglo Indian MLA Mr A.C Grice from Kanpur) |
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| IN SAD AND SACRED REMEMBRANCE OF MY VERY DEAR HUSBAND EDWIN EUSTACE MACLEOD WHO DIED AT NAINI TAL SEPTEMBER 15TH 1935 ------------ XXXXXX XXXXX |
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| IN LOVING MEMORY OF A MUCH REGRETTED BROTHER IVAN ERNEST MIDDLETON BORN 28TH JULY 1876 DIED 10TH MAY 1933 AGED 57 YEARS RIP THERE IS A LINK DEATH CANNOT SEVER ERECTED BY HIS SORROWING SISTER ESME M. MIDDLETON |
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| "A LIGHT IS FROM OUR HOUSEHOLD GONE A VOICE WE LOVED IS STILL'D A PLACE IS VACANT IN OUR HOME WHICH NEVER WILL BE FILLED" MAJOR CSP(?) SANWAL BORN ON 3RD OCTOBER 1930 DIED ON 6/7 DECEMBER 1970 |
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| INTO THY HANDS I COMMEND MY SPIRIT IN LOVING MEMORY OF KATHERINE ROSALIND SANWAL BORN 16TH OCTOBER 1902 DIED 22ND NOVEMBER 1962 ------------- (SOME OF THE GRAVES HAVE BEEN REPEATED LIKE THE SANWALS. I HAD PUT THESE TWO GRAVES UP AFTER MY FIRST VISIT HERE TWO YEARS AGO) |
