Goldsworth Park Community Association
Goldsworth News : 126 Local Muslim War Memorial
Local Muslim War Memorial
We have taken some photos of it and the new information board and will add them here soon...
Our webpage on this memorial is here....
http://www.windowonwoking.org.uk/sites/goldsworthparkcommunityassociation/history/memorials/horsell
Other sites Photos are here.....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/snowcrash/tags/burialground/show/
The Muslim/Moslem Cemetery on Horsell Common.
The injured Asian soldiers during WW1 were treated in Brighton Pavilion (see photo below).
Those that died of Hindu and Sikh faiths were cremated near to Brighton.
As the Muslim dead needed burial it was decided to site the memorial near to the Woking Mosque.
Here is what is written on a board on the memorial. There is also a recent info board by the car park nearest the memorial.
MOSLEM CEMETERY
THIS ENCLOSURE WAS BUILT IN
1915 AS A BURIAL GROUND FOR
INDIAN SOLDIERS WHO LOST
THEIR LIVES IN SERVICE TO
THIS COUNTRY DURING THE
GREAT WAR. THE GRAVES HAVE
BEEN REMOVED BUT THE WALLS
REMAIN AS A REMINDER OF THAT
SACRIFICE AND ITS ASSOCIATION
WITH THE EASTERN WORLD.
THE HORSELL COMMON
PRESERVATION SOCIETY
HOPE TO RAISE FUNDS FOR
THE COMPLETE RESTORATION
OF THIS HISTORIC RELIC.
Please do not destroy it.
The Secretary
Horsell Common Preservation Society
STATUTORY LISTED HISTORIC BUILDING
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T.H. WINNY A.R.I.B.A Architect
ASHBY AND HORNER Ltd Builders
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The names of the dead buried here are as follows:
WORLD WAR ONE and after
(Died between 1915-1920)
Abdullah
Alla Ditta Khan
Ash Gar Ali
Babu
Bagh Ali Khan
Bostan
Fazal Khan
Hanza
Kala Khan
Khan Muhammad
Mahrup Shah
Mehr Khan
Mirza Iqbal Ali Beg
Sarmast
Shaikh Abdul Wahab
Shaikh Mohiuddin
Sher Gul
Sikandar Khan
Zarif Khan
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WORLD WAR TWO and after
(Died between 1944-1947)
Jan Muhammad
Karam Khan
Khwaja Din
Muhammad Masalachi
Ali L. A. C. Yousef