Son of Mansur Khan, of Chandhiria, Amethi, Sultanpur, United Provinces.
(Buried in Limber Hill Military Cemetery).
Sepoy
153rd Rifles Indian Infantry 729
________________
The 153rd Punjabis – also designated 153rd Rifles– was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was formed in Mesopotamia and Palestine in May 1918, saw service in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in the First World War, and was disbanded in June 1922.
The 153rd Punjabis was formed of three battalions in May 1918. Other sources designate all three battalions as 153rd Infantry.
The 1st Battalion was formed at Diyala on 18 May 1918 by the transfer of complete companies from:
• 82nd Punjabis
• 87th Punjabis
• 89th Punjabis
• 90th Punjabis
The battalion moved to Amara on 23 May and left for Egypt on 20 June. It disembarked at Suez on 5 July and reached Lydda on 17 July. The battalion joined the 159th Brigade, 53rd (Welsh) Division on 2 August 1918 near Jerusalem. 1st Battalion, 153rd Punjabis was disbanded on 15 June 1921
The 1st Battalion was formed in Mesopotamia with companies posted from battalions serving in the 14th, 15th, and 18th Indian Divisions. It was transferred to Egypt during June and July 1918. In contrast, the 2nd and 3rd Battalions were formed in Palestine with companies posted from battalions already serving in the theatre, particularly from the 3rd (Lahore) and 7th (Meerut) Divisions.
All three battalions were assigned to the 53rd (Welsh) Division in June and August and remained with the division for the rest of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, taking part in the Battle of Nablus (18–21 September 1918). At the end of the battle, the division was employed on salvage work and working on the Nablus road.
On 27 October, the division started moving to Alexandria even before the Armistice of Mudros came into effect on 31 October, thereby ending the war against the Ottoman Empire. It completed its concentration at Alexandria on 15 November.
___________
Iresaq Khan Abdul is listed in the 'Mohammedan' Section.
The Ramleh 1914-18 Memorial was erected in 1961 to commemorate more than 300 Commonwealth, German and Turkish servicemen of the First World War who lie buried in cemeteries elsewhere in Israel where their graves could no longer be maintained.
______________
LIMBER HILL MILITARY CEMETERY - 48 Indian and 23 Turkish.
Originally the Memorial also commemorated casualties buried in Jerusalem (Bab Sitna Mariam) Muslim Cemetery and Tul Karm War Cemetery, but these two sites were re-instated in 1997.
However, in 2014, the memorial was completely rebuilt and it now commemorates, in addition to the 74 known Commonwealth casualties from the sites listed above, 453 Indian and 62 Egyptian casualties known to be buried in Ramleh War Cemetery, whose graves are unmarked.
LIMBER HILL MILITARY CEMETERY, Cemetery Index Number, P.23.
"LIMBER HILL" is at Waa del Joz, on the main Jersualem-Nablus (Schechem) road, between the villages of Bireh and Jufna. The cemetery, 500 yards East of the road, was made by No. 74 Combined Clearing Hospital in April-October, 1918. The British graves have been removed; the cemetery, of 550 square yards, now contains the graves or memorials of 48 Indian soldiers and followers andd 23 Turkish soldiers. It is enclosed by a curb wall, and marked by an obelisk.
RAMLEH WAR CEMETERY dates from the First World War, when Ramleh (now Ramla) was occupied by the 1st Australian Light Horse Brigade on 1 November 1917. Field ambulances, and later casualty clearing stations, were posted at Ramleh and Lydda from December 1917 onwards. The cemetery was begun by the medical units, but some graves were brought in later from the battlefields and from Latron, Sarona and Wilhema Military and Indian Cemeteries.
----------
Inside Beit El, the remains of a British cemetery from the First World War remain. In addition to the main cemeteries in Ramla, Be'er Sheva and Mount Scopus were other small cemeteries. This cemetery was located near a wounded collection station where British soldiers and others who had died were buried at a nearby field hospital. In the 1920s, some of them were commemorated and evacuated to the military cemeteries in Ramla and Jerusalem
The war graves of the British Empire: the register of the names of those who fell in the Great War and are buried in the minor cemeteries in Palestine
Death Registers Book
London- Imperial War Graves Commission, 1931.
Contents
Deir el Belah Egyptian Cemetery
Deir el Belah Indian Cemetery
Deir Sneid Egyptian Cemetery
Gaza Indian Cemetery
Gaza Turkish Cemetery
Haifa Indian Cemetery
Jaffa (Jabaliye) Muhammadan Cemetery
Jericho Military Cemetery, No. 2
Jerusalem (Bab Silna Mariam) Muhammadan Cemetery
Jerusalem Indian War Cemetery
Junction Station Muhammadan Cemetery
Latrun Egyptian Cemetery
Limber Hill Military Cemetery
Sarona Indian Cemetery
Tul Karm War Cemetery
Wilhelma Indian Cemetery
In the cemetery were buried in it: 70 Indians, 31 British, 1 South African and a German prisoner who died of his wounds. Apparently the bones of the Indian soldiers were not evacuated with the rest. Apparently next to the podium in the picture was an obelisk. Similar to the obelisks that can still be seen today in British cemeteries from that period
This cemetery was called Military Hill Limber by the British, after the military code given to the hill on which the cemetery was built. Although the area of the cemetery is still enclosed by a low stone wall on three of its four sides, and can be identified by a cursory glance, it has been forgotten and there is no hallmark indicating its designation or the tombs that were there, and probably still are. (Dr. Michal Ben Yaakov)
A lecture was given at the 21st Conference on Judea and Samaria Studies (14 Sivan 5771 / 16.6.2011), "The British in the Land of Benjamin: Memory
Or common? On a British military cemetery north of Jerusalem from the First World War "By: Dr. Michal Ben Yaakov
Cemeteries have many interiors and they serve as memorial sites for the individual and the whole. Their form expresses the values of society and its perceptions regarding its past and its commemoration. Military cemeteries are also seen as monuments that represent the nation and its ideals, and exalt the heroism of sacrificing its sons for its existence. In all these respects the case of the British cemeteries erected for the victims of the First World War, 'The Great War', is not conspicuous. This lecture diagnoses an interesting case of one military cemetery established during the war and nurtured afterwards, but nevertheless, forgotten and forgotten.
On the eve of Hanukkah (December 9, 1917), the British army led by General Edmund Allenby entered Jerusalem, and the Ottoman army withdrew to the north. A military base was established in the area, near the main road on the back of the mountain, now in the area of the settlement of Beit El, in the Binyamin region. From the end of May to the beginning of October 1918, martyrs from battles and diseases were buried there: soldiers from Britain, South Africa and India who served in the British Army and the British Commonwealth as well as Turkish soldiers, probably prisoners of war or dead whose bodies were found in the area.
About 40 years later the cemetery was officially abandoned and there is no hallmark indicating its designation or the tombs that were there, and that are probably still there. A study of the history of the cemetery raises many questions not only about the reasons for its establishment, but especially about its abandonment.
SOURCE: 21st Conference, Judea and Samaria Studies - Multidisciplinary scientific conference http://www.ladereh.com/BRPortal/br/P102.jsp?arc=168244
(Buried in Limber Hill Military Cemetery).
Sepoy
153rd Rifles Indian Infantry 729
________________
The 153rd Punjabis – also designated 153rd Rifles– was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was formed in Mesopotamia and Palestine in May 1918, saw service in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in the First World War, and was disbanded in June 1922.
The 153rd Punjabis was formed of three battalions in May 1918. Other sources designate all three battalions as 153rd Infantry.
The 1st Battalion was formed at Diyala on 18 May 1918 by the transfer of complete companies from:
• 82nd Punjabis
• 87th Punjabis
• 89th Punjabis
• 90th Punjabis
The battalion moved to Amara on 23 May and left for Egypt on 20 June. It disembarked at Suez on 5 July and reached Lydda on 17 July. The battalion joined the 159th Brigade, 53rd (Welsh) Division on 2 August 1918 near Jerusalem. 1st Battalion, 153rd Punjabis was disbanded on 15 June 1921
The 1st Battalion was formed in Mesopotamia with companies posted from battalions serving in the 14th, 15th, and 18th Indian Divisions. It was transferred to Egypt during June and July 1918. In contrast, the 2nd and 3rd Battalions were formed in Palestine with companies posted from battalions already serving in the theatre, particularly from the 3rd (Lahore) and 7th (Meerut) Divisions.
All three battalions were assigned to the 53rd (Welsh) Division in June and August and remained with the division for the rest of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, taking part in the Battle of Nablus (18–21 September 1918). At the end of the battle, the division was employed on salvage work and working on the Nablus road.
On 27 October, the division started moving to Alexandria even before the Armistice of Mudros came into effect on 31 October, thereby ending the war against the Ottoman Empire. It completed its concentration at Alexandria on 15 November.
___________
Iresaq Khan Abdul is listed in the 'Mohammedan' Section.
The Ramleh 1914-18 Memorial was erected in 1961 to commemorate more than 300 Commonwealth, German and Turkish servicemen of the First World War who lie buried in cemeteries elsewhere in Israel where their graves could no longer be maintained.
______________
LIMBER HILL MILITARY CEMETERY - 48 Indian and 23 Turkish.
Originally the Memorial also commemorated casualties buried in Jerusalem (Bab Sitna Mariam) Muslim Cemetery and Tul Karm War Cemetery, but these two sites were re-instated in 1997.
However, in 2014, the memorial was completely rebuilt and it now commemorates, in addition to the 74 known Commonwealth casualties from the sites listed above, 453 Indian and 62 Egyptian casualties known to be buried in Ramleh War Cemetery, whose graves are unmarked.
LIMBER HILL MILITARY CEMETERY, Cemetery Index Number, P.23.
"LIMBER HILL" is at Waa del Joz, on the main Jersualem-Nablus (Schechem) road, between the villages of Bireh and Jufna. The cemetery, 500 yards East of the road, was made by No. 74 Combined Clearing Hospital in April-October, 1918. The British graves have been removed; the cemetery, of 550 square yards, now contains the graves or memorials of 48 Indian soldiers and followers andd 23 Turkish soldiers. It is enclosed by a curb wall, and marked by an obelisk.
RAMLEH WAR CEMETERY dates from the First World War, when Ramleh (now Ramla) was occupied by the 1st Australian Light Horse Brigade on 1 November 1917. Field ambulances, and later casualty clearing stations, were posted at Ramleh and Lydda from December 1917 onwards. The cemetery was begun by the medical units, but some graves were brought in later from the battlefields and from Latron, Sarona and Wilhema Military and Indian Cemeteries.
----------
Inside Beit El, the remains of a British cemetery from the First World War remain. In addition to the main cemeteries in Ramla, Be'er Sheva and Mount Scopus were other small cemeteries. This cemetery was located near a wounded collection station where British soldiers and others who had died were buried at a nearby field hospital. In the 1920s, some of them were commemorated and evacuated to the military cemeteries in Ramla and Jerusalem
The war graves of the British Empire: the register of the names of those who fell in the Great War and are buried in the minor cemeteries in Palestine
Death Registers Book
London- Imperial War Graves Commission, 1931.
Contents
Deir el Belah Egyptian Cemetery
Deir el Belah Indian Cemetery
Deir Sneid Egyptian Cemetery
Gaza Indian Cemetery
Gaza Turkish Cemetery
Haifa Indian Cemetery
Jaffa (Jabaliye) Muhammadan Cemetery
Jericho Military Cemetery, No. 2
Jerusalem (Bab Silna Mariam) Muhammadan Cemetery
Jerusalem Indian War Cemetery
Junction Station Muhammadan Cemetery
Latrun Egyptian Cemetery
Limber Hill Military Cemetery
Sarona Indian Cemetery
Tul Karm War Cemetery
Wilhelma Indian Cemetery
In the cemetery were buried in it: 70 Indians, 31 British, 1 South African and a German prisoner who died of his wounds. Apparently the bones of the Indian soldiers were not evacuated with the rest. Apparently next to the podium in the picture was an obelisk. Similar to the obelisks that can still be seen today in British cemeteries from that period
This cemetery was called Military Hill Limber by the British, after the military code given to the hill on which the cemetery was built. Although the area of the cemetery is still enclosed by a low stone wall on three of its four sides, and can be identified by a cursory glance, it has been forgotten and there is no hallmark indicating its designation or the tombs that were there, and probably still are. (Dr. Michal Ben Yaakov)
A lecture was given at the 21st Conference on Judea and Samaria Studies (14 Sivan 5771 / 16.6.2011), "The British in the Land of Benjamin: Memory
Or common? On a British military cemetery north of Jerusalem from the First World War "By: Dr. Michal Ben Yaakov
Cemeteries have many interiors and they serve as memorial sites for the individual and the whole. Their form expresses the values of society and its perceptions regarding its past and its commemoration. Military cemeteries are also seen as monuments that represent the nation and its ideals, and exalt the heroism of sacrificing its sons for its existence. In all these respects the case of the British cemeteries erected for the victims of the First World War, 'The Great War', is not conspicuous. This lecture diagnoses an interesting case of one military cemetery established during the war and nurtured afterwards, but nevertheless, forgotten and forgotten.
On the eve of Hanukkah (December 9, 1917), the British army led by General Edmund Allenby entered Jerusalem, and the Ottoman army withdrew to the north. A military base was established in the area, near the main road on the back of the mountain, now in the area of the settlement of Beit El, in the Binyamin region. From the end of May to the beginning of October 1918, martyrs from battles and diseases were buried there: soldiers from Britain, South Africa and India who served in the British Army and the British Commonwealth as well as Turkish soldiers, probably prisoners of war or dead whose bodies were found in the area.
About 40 years later the cemetery was officially abandoned and there is no hallmark indicating its designation or the tombs that were there, and that are probably still there. A study of the history of the cemetery raises many questions not only about the reasons for its establishment, but especially about its abandonment.
SOURCE: 21st Conference, Judea and Samaria Studies - Multidisciplinary scientific conference http://www.ladereh.com/BRPortal/br/P102.jsp?arc=168244
Son of Mansur Khan, of Chandhiria, Amethi, Sultanpur, United Provinces.
(Buried in Limber Hill Military Cemetery).
Sepoy
153rd Rifles Indian Infantry 729
________________
The 153rd Punjabis – also designated 153rd Rifles– was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was formed in Mesopotamia and Palestine in May 1918, saw service in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in the First World War, and was disbanded in June 1922.
The 153rd Punjabis was formed of three battalions in May 1918. Other sources designate all three battalions as 153rd Infantry.
The 1st Battalion was formed at Diyala on 18 May 1918 by the transfer of complete companies from:
• 82nd Punjabis
• 87th Punjabis
• 89th Punjabis
• 90th Punjabis
The battalion moved to Amara on 23 May and left for Egypt on 20 June. It disembarked at Suez on 5 July and reached Lydda on 17 July. The battalion joined the 159th Brigade, 53rd (Welsh) Division on 2 August 1918 near Jerusalem. 1st Battalion, 153rd Punjabis was disbanded on 15 June 1921
The 1st Battalion was formed in Mesopotamia with companies posted from battalions serving in the 14th, 15th, and 18th Indian Divisions. It was transferred to Egypt during June and July 1918. In contrast, the 2nd and 3rd Battalions were formed in Palestine with companies posted from battalions already serving in the theatre, particularly from the 3rd (Lahore) and 7th (Meerut) Divisions.
All three battalions were assigned to the 53rd (Welsh) Division in June and August and remained with the division for the rest of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, taking part in the Battle of Nablus (18–21 September 1918). At the end of the battle, the division was employed on salvage work and working on the Nablus road.
On 27 October, the division started moving to Alexandria even before the Armistice of Mudros came into effect on 31 October, thereby ending the war against the Ottoman Empire. It completed its concentration at Alexandria on 15 November.
___________
Iresaq Khan Abdul is listed in the 'Mohammedan' Section.
The Ramleh 1914-18 Memorial was erected in 1961 to commemorate more than 300 Commonwealth, German and Turkish servicemen of the First World War who lie buried in cemeteries elsewhere in Israel where their graves could no longer be maintained.
______________
LIMBER HILL MILITARY CEMETERY - 48 Indian and 23 Turkish.
Originally the Memorial also commemorated casualties buried in Jerusalem (Bab Sitna Mariam) Muslim Cemetery and Tul Karm War Cemetery, but these two sites were re-instated in 1997.
However, in 2014, the memorial was completely rebuilt and it now commemorates, in addition to the 74 known Commonwealth casualties from the sites listed above, 453 Indian and 62 Egyptian casualties known to be buried in Ramleh War Cemetery, whose graves are unmarked.
LIMBER HILL MILITARY CEMETERY, Cemetery Index Number, P.23.
"LIMBER HILL" is at Waa del Joz, on the main Jersualem-Nablus (Schechem) road, between the villages of Bireh and Jufna. The cemetery, 500 yards East of the road, was made by No. 74 Combined Clearing Hospital in April-October, 1918. The British graves have been removed; the cemetery, of 550 square yards, now contains the graves or memorials of 48 Indian soldiers and followers andd 23 Turkish soldiers. It is enclosed by a curb wall, and marked by an obelisk.
RAMLEH WAR CEMETERY dates from the First World War, when Ramleh (now Ramla) was occupied by the 1st Australian Light Horse Brigade on 1 November 1917. Field ambulances, and later casualty clearing stations, were posted at Ramleh and Lydda from December 1917 onwards. The cemetery was begun by the medical units, but some graves were brought in later from the battlefields and from Latron, Sarona and Wilhema Military and Indian Cemeteries.
----------
Inside Beit El, the remains of a British cemetery from the First World War remain. In addition to the main cemeteries in Ramla, Be'er Sheva and Mount Scopus were other small cemeteries. This cemetery was located near a wounded collection station where British soldiers and others who had died were buried at a nearby field hospital. In the 1920s, some of them were commemorated and evacuated to the military cemeteries in Ramla and Jerusalem
The war graves of the British Empire: the register of the names of those who fell in the Great War and are buried in the minor cemeteries in Palestine
Death Registers Book
London- Imperial War Graves Commission, 1931.
Contents
Deir el Belah Egyptian Cemetery
Deir el Belah Indian Cemetery
Deir Sneid Egyptian Cemetery
Gaza Indian Cemetery
Gaza Turkish Cemetery
Haifa Indian Cemetery
Jaffa (Jabaliye) Muhammadan Cemetery
Jericho Military Cemetery, No. 2
Jerusalem (Bab Silna Mariam) Muhammadan Cemetery
Jerusalem Indian War Cemetery
Junction Station Muhammadan Cemetery
Latrun Egyptian Cemetery
Limber Hill Military Cemetery
Sarona Indian Cemetery
Tul Karm War Cemetery
Wilhelma Indian Cemetery
In the cemetery were buried in it: 70 Indians, 31 British, 1 South African and a German prisoner who died of his wounds. Apparently the bones of the Indian soldiers were not evacuated with the rest. Apparently next to the podium in the picture was an obelisk. Similar to the obelisks that can still be seen today in British cemeteries from that period
This cemetery was called Military Hill Limber by the British, after the military code given to the hill on which the cemetery was built. Although the area of the cemetery is still enclosed by a low stone wall on three of its four sides, and can be identified by a cursory glance, it has been forgotten and there is no hallmark indicating its designation or the tombs that were there, and probably still are. (Dr. Michal Ben Yaakov)
A lecture was given at the 21st Conference on Judea and Samaria Studies (14 Sivan 5771 / 16.6.2011), "The British in the Land of Benjamin: Memory
Or common? On a British military cemetery north of Jerusalem from the First World War "By: Dr. Michal Ben Yaakov
Cemeteries have many interiors and they serve as memorial sites for the individual and the whole. Their form expresses the values of society and its perceptions regarding its past and its commemoration. Military cemeteries are also seen as monuments that represent the nation and its ideals, and exalt the heroism of sacrificing its sons for its existence. In all these respects the case of the British cemeteries erected for the victims of the First World War, 'The Great War', is not conspicuous. This lecture diagnoses an interesting case of one military cemetery established during the war and nurtured afterwards, but nevertheless, forgotten and forgotten.
On the eve of Hanukkah (December 9, 1917), the British army led by General Edmund Allenby entered Jerusalem, and the Ottoman army withdrew to the north. A military base was established in the area, near the main road on the back of the mountain, now in the area of the settlement of Beit El, in the Binyamin region. From the end of May to the beginning of October 1918, martyrs from battles and diseases were buried there: soldiers from Britain, South Africa and India who served in the British Army and the British Commonwealth as well as Turkish soldiers, probably prisoners of war or dead whose bodies were found in the area.
About 40 years later the cemetery was officially abandoned and there is no hallmark indicating its designation or the tombs that were there, and that are probably still there. A study of the history of the cemetery raises many questions not only about the reasons for its establishment, but especially about its abandonment.
SOURCE: 21st Conference, Judea and Samaria Studies - Multidisciplinary scientific conference http://www.ladereh.com/BRPortal/br/P102.jsp?arc=168244
(Buried in Limber Hill Military Cemetery).
Sepoy
153rd Rifles Indian Infantry 729
________________
The 153rd Punjabis – also designated 153rd Rifles– was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was formed in Mesopotamia and Palestine in May 1918, saw service in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in the First World War, and was disbanded in June 1922.
The 153rd Punjabis was formed of three battalions in May 1918. Other sources designate all three battalions as 153rd Infantry.
The 1st Battalion was formed at Diyala on 18 May 1918 by the transfer of complete companies from:
• 82nd Punjabis
• 87th Punjabis
• 89th Punjabis
• 90th Punjabis
The battalion moved to Amara on 23 May and left for Egypt on 20 June. It disembarked at Suez on 5 July and reached Lydda on 17 July. The battalion joined the 159th Brigade, 53rd (Welsh) Division on 2 August 1918 near Jerusalem. 1st Battalion, 153rd Punjabis was disbanded on 15 June 1921
The 1st Battalion was formed in Mesopotamia with companies posted from battalions serving in the 14th, 15th, and 18th Indian Divisions. It was transferred to Egypt during June and July 1918. In contrast, the 2nd and 3rd Battalions were formed in Palestine with companies posted from battalions already serving in the theatre, particularly from the 3rd (Lahore) and 7th (Meerut) Divisions.
All three battalions were assigned to the 53rd (Welsh) Division in June and August and remained with the division for the rest of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, taking part in the Battle of Nablus (18–21 September 1918). At the end of the battle, the division was employed on salvage work and working on the Nablus road.
On 27 October, the division started moving to Alexandria even before the Armistice of Mudros came into effect on 31 October, thereby ending the war against the Ottoman Empire. It completed its concentration at Alexandria on 15 November.
___________
Iresaq Khan Abdul is listed in the 'Mohammedan' Section.
The Ramleh 1914-18 Memorial was erected in 1961 to commemorate more than 300 Commonwealth, German and Turkish servicemen of the First World War who lie buried in cemeteries elsewhere in Israel where their graves could no longer be maintained.
______________
LIMBER HILL MILITARY CEMETERY - 48 Indian and 23 Turkish.
Originally the Memorial also commemorated casualties buried in Jerusalem (Bab Sitna Mariam) Muslim Cemetery and Tul Karm War Cemetery, but these two sites were re-instated in 1997.
However, in 2014, the memorial was completely rebuilt and it now commemorates, in addition to the 74 known Commonwealth casualties from the sites listed above, 453 Indian and 62 Egyptian casualties known to be buried in Ramleh War Cemetery, whose graves are unmarked.
LIMBER HILL MILITARY CEMETERY, Cemetery Index Number, P.23.
"LIMBER HILL" is at Waa del Joz, on the main Jersualem-Nablus (Schechem) road, between the villages of Bireh and Jufna. The cemetery, 500 yards East of the road, was made by No. 74 Combined Clearing Hospital in April-October, 1918. The British graves have been removed; the cemetery, of 550 square yards, now contains the graves or memorials of 48 Indian soldiers and followers andd 23 Turkish soldiers. It is enclosed by a curb wall, and marked by an obelisk.
RAMLEH WAR CEMETERY dates from the First World War, when Ramleh (now Ramla) was occupied by the 1st Australian Light Horse Brigade on 1 November 1917. Field ambulances, and later casualty clearing stations, were posted at Ramleh and Lydda from December 1917 onwards. The cemetery was begun by the medical units, but some graves were brought in later from the battlefields and from Latron, Sarona and Wilhema Military and Indian Cemeteries.
----------
Inside Beit El, the remains of a British cemetery from the First World War remain. In addition to the main cemeteries in Ramla, Be'er Sheva and Mount Scopus were other small cemeteries. This cemetery was located near a wounded collection station where British soldiers and others who had died were buried at a nearby field hospital. In the 1920s, some of them were commemorated and evacuated to the military cemeteries in Ramla and Jerusalem
The war graves of the British Empire: the register of the names of those who fell in the Great War and are buried in the minor cemeteries in Palestine
Death Registers Book
London- Imperial War Graves Commission, 1931.
Contents
Deir el Belah Egyptian Cemetery
Deir el Belah Indian Cemetery
Deir Sneid Egyptian Cemetery
Gaza Indian Cemetery
Gaza Turkish Cemetery
Haifa Indian Cemetery
Jaffa (Jabaliye) Muhammadan Cemetery
Jericho Military Cemetery, No. 2
Jerusalem (Bab Silna Mariam) Muhammadan Cemetery
Jerusalem Indian War Cemetery
Junction Station Muhammadan Cemetery
Latrun Egyptian Cemetery
Limber Hill Military Cemetery
Sarona Indian Cemetery
Tul Karm War Cemetery
Wilhelma Indian Cemetery
In the cemetery were buried in it: 70 Indians, 31 British, 1 South African and a German prisoner who died of his wounds. Apparently the bones of the Indian soldiers were not evacuated with the rest. Apparently next to the podium in the picture was an obelisk. Similar to the obelisks that can still be seen today in British cemeteries from that period
This cemetery was called Military Hill Limber by the British, after the military code given to the hill on which the cemetery was built. Although the area of the cemetery is still enclosed by a low stone wall on three of its four sides, and can be identified by a cursory glance, it has been forgotten and there is no hallmark indicating its designation or the tombs that were there, and probably still are. (Dr. Michal Ben Yaakov)
A lecture was given at the 21st Conference on Judea and Samaria Studies (14 Sivan 5771 / 16.6.2011), "The British in the Land of Benjamin: Memory
Or common? On a British military cemetery north of Jerusalem from the First World War "By: Dr. Michal Ben Yaakov
Cemeteries have many interiors and they serve as memorial sites for the individual and the whole. Their form expresses the values of society and its perceptions regarding its past and its commemoration. Military cemeteries are also seen as monuments that represent the nation and its ideals, and exalt the heroism of sacrificing its sons for its existence. In all these respects the case of the British cemeteries erected for the victims of the First World War, 'The Great War', is not conspicuous. This lecture diagnoses an interesting case of one military cemetery established during the war and nurtured afterwards, but nevertheless, forgotten and forgotten.
On the eve of Hanukkah (December 9, 1917), the British army led by General Edmund Allenby entered Jerusalem, and the Ottoman army withdrew to the north. A military base was established in the area, near the main road on the back of the mountain, now in the area of the settlement of Beit El, in the Binyamin region. From the end of May to the beginning of October 1918, martyrs from battles and diseases were buried there: soldiers from Britain, South Africa and India who served in the British Army and the British Commonwealth as well as Turkish soldiers, probably prisoners of war or dead whose bodies were found in the area.
About 40 years later the cemetery was officially abandoned and there is no hallmark indicating its designation or the tombs that were there, and that are probably still there. A study of the history of the cemetery raises many questions not only about the reasons for its establishment, but especially about its abandonment.
SOURCE: 21st Conference, Judea and Samaria Studies - Multidisciplinary scientific conference http://www.ladereh.com/BRPortal/br/P102.jsp?arc=168244
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