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Indian High Commission Indian High Commission pays tribute to Chittagong Commonwealth War Cemetery
Dhaka, October 18, 2021: The Indian High Commission has paid tribute to the soldiers who died fighting for the Commonwealth in World War II on Sunday.
Representatives of the Indian High Commission in Dhaka and the Indian Assistant High Commissioner in Chittagong paid their respects at the Chittagong Commonwealth War Cemetery on Sunday (October 18th). This information has been given in a press release sent from the Indian High Commission.
The deep seaport of Chittagong, Arakan, had an excellent base for operations and a significant hospital center. Originally a hospital cemetery for the dead, it was expanded from several isolated locations for burial. It contains 651 war mausoleums, including 14 sailors, 545 soldiers and 194 members of the air force.
There are also four tombs that are not World War I tombs. Here are the tombs of soldiers from the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, East Africa, West Africa, Myanmar, the Netherlands, Japan and the then undivided India. Of the 214 graves in undivided India, more than 10 are in present-day Bangladesh.
All of them sacrificed their lives in the war against the Axis Powers from 1939 to 1945. There is a Chittagong Memorial at the entrance of the cemetery which was built in the memory of 6,469 sailors of the Royal Indian Navy and Merchant Navy. These sailors went missing at sea during World War II.
"As India celebrates 75 years of independence, we respectfully commemorate those brave men and women who have sacrificed their present for our future," the Indian High Commission said in a statement. The sacrifices of the Indians in the Second World War played an important role in the victory of the Allies. Indian soldiers kept their signatures of competence in all areas of war.
