Name of Royal Eng buried Katihar, 1959

[John Carr]

Hello.

I was a Signals Sergeant seconded to the Ghurkas based in Dharan, Nepal from 1960 to '62.

I was tasked with placing a military headstone on the grave of a Sapper who died in the Himalayas in 1959. He was buried in a Christian cemetery in KATIHAR, Bihar State in India.

He was the only British soldier buried in this cemetery.

I took photos of the grave once the job was completed, the undeveloped spool which I sent to the War Graves Commission asking them to forward a copy to me. I never received a reply to this request, and have always wondered whose name was on the headstone.

Can anyone suggest the best way to try and find this information?

Thank you.

[Pam Downes]

Hi John,

Welcome to Brit-Gen.

I didn't know if the Commonwealth War Graves Commission covered only WW1 and WW2, so checked there first. www.cwgc.org
No luck. So then I googled War Graves Commission and ended up at The War Graves Photographic Project https://twgpp.org/ which covers from WW1 to the present day.
Searching the site for a name will obviously not work for you, but there are two email links and I would have thought that those guys would be able to access the database via the cemetery name.

Pam

[John Carr]

Many thanks, Pam, for the work you've done on this. The War Graves Photographic Project sounds like a good next step.

I shall report back with my findings.

John.

[John Carr]

Useful link to Indian cemeteries. I now need to edit my first post as the place is KATIHAR in Bihar state.

How do I 'edit'?!

Thanks.

[christanel]

Hello John

Members only have approx 10 minutes to edit a post. This is to prevent posts being changed willy nilly and possibly distorting the meaning/relevance of whatever is posted later. So doing what you have done is actually the best way of drawing attention to a needed correction.

However I have actually edited your first post for you so you have a double whammy correction. Got to keep my hand in.

Christina

[John Carr]

Thank you Christina, and sorry for the delay in getting back.

I now have a number of lines to pursue, and will come back when I have new information.

Thanks again, John.