The Jerusalem Indian War Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in Jerusalem for fallen servicemen of India in the World War I.
The cemetery is located in the southern neighbourhood of Talpiot, on Korei HaDorot Street.Moti Ben-Ari, "Indian War Cemetery Rehov Korei Hadorot, Talpiot", The Jerusalem Post, 5 December 2008Wikimapia It contains the mass grave of 79 Indian soldiers from the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, as well as the graves of 290 Turkish prisoners of war."Jerusalem Indian War Cemetery", Commonwealth War Graves CommissionOren Kessler, "In Israel and Palestinian Territories, British still tend memory of 16,000 war dead", Tablet, 11 November 2013, retrieved 18 February 2023 Other war dead, many of them Arab workers employed by the expeditionary corps,John Starling, Ivor Lee, No Labour, No Battle: Military Labour During the First World War, The History Press, 2014 are buried in three more separate cemeteries: the Latin (Catholic) Cemetery and the Protestant Cemetery (likely those from Mount Zion), and the Bab Sitna Mariam Muslim cemetery next to the Lions' Gate. References
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