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From: "Charles Lyon" <>
Subject: Re: [Mar] Fw: ss Clan Mactavish
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 1980 18:41:45 -0000


Hi All

In Memory of
MADARIS ALI
Trimmer
S.S. Maidan (Liverpool), Indian Merchant Navy
who died on
Tuesday, 5th November 1940. Age 25.


Commemorative Information
Memorial: BOMBAY / CHITTAGONG 1939-1945 WAR MEMORIALS, India
Location: The Bombay 1939-1945 War Memorial and the Chittagong Memorial
commemorate over 400 sailors of the former Indian Navy and nearly 6,000
sailors of the former Indian Merchant Navy who were lost at sea during the
war years. Situated respectively in the Indian Seamen's Hostel Bombay and in
Chittagong War Cemetery, each memorial takes the form of a finely bound
volume containing the names of the dead. The Bombay Roll of Honour, bound in
navy blue leather and printed in Hindi, lies in a glass topped bronze
casket. A similar volume at Chittagong, handwritten by a scribe in Bengali
and bound in green, rests in a wooden case standing on a marble pedestal.
The dedication in the appropriate language reads: 1939 - THIS BOOK CONTAINS
THE NAMES OF 6,500 SAILORS AND MERCHANT SEAMEN WHO DIED IN THE SERVICE OF
THEIR MOTHERLAND AND HAVE NO GRAVE BUT THE SEA - 1945 The main road leading
to the Port Area is P.D. Mello Road which runs to the "Gateway of India".
The entrance to the Sailors Home is on Thana Street. Chittagong War Cemetery
is in Dampara locality, No 19 Basha Mia Road, 22 kilometres north of the
airport and 8 kilometres from the port on a site which was formerly paddy
fields, but which has now been developed. It is near the arts college and
close by Finlay's Guest Houses near Chatteshanry Road; a well known road
leading to the Hindu Kali Bari Temple. There is no CWGC road direction sign.
The Burial area is situated at the bottom of a slope directly behind
Finlay's Guest Houses and is surrounded by a large area planted with a
mixture of jungle trees, fruit trees and flowering trees. It is not easily
seen from the road. A narrow tarmacked lane leads from the entrance gate to
the burial area which is entered through a metal gate flanked by two small
brick chapels. The cemetery gates are open from 07.00 to 12.00 noon and from
14.00 to 17.00.



Charles Lyon
Maghull
Merseyside
UK
HTTP://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/Maghul

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