Patcham Chattri
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 10:20 am
On a recent visit to Brighton, I took the opportunity to visit the Royal Pavilion. My main interest was the exhibition detailing the period when the Pavillion was used as an Army Hospital for the treatment of Indian soldiers wounded in WW1
http://www.black-history.org.uk/pavilionindian.asp
Those that succumbed to their wounds were cremated on the downs just outside Brighton. The Muslims were buried at the Shah Jahan Mosque in Woking.
The weather was perfect so we decided to visit the site of the Burning Ghats on the downs. It is now a war memorial and has a Chattri (Hindu for Umbrella) built where the bodies were cremated.





http://www.black-history.org.uk/pavilionindian.asp
Those that succumbed to their wounds were cremated on the downs just outside Brighton. The Muslims were buried at the Shah Jahan Mosque in Woking.
The weather was perfect so we decided to visit the site of the Burning Ghats on the downs. It is now a war memorial and has a Chattri (Hindu for Umbrella) built where the bodies were cremated.




