Ismail Khan
Service number
1258
Military unit
Address
Unknown
Date of birth
Date of death
25 Sep 1915 (Age unknown)
Place of birth
Unknown
Employment, education or hobbies
Unknown
- Family History
- Military history
- Extra information
- Photographs
Family history
He was the son of Mubarak of Dulmial Pind Dadan Khan Jhelum Punjab.
Military history
33rd Punjabis
He was killed on the first day of the Battle of Loos.
Extra information
Neuve-Chapelle Memorial: Panel 28 & 29
Photographs
Courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
'The Indian Memorial at Neuve Chapelle commemorates over 4,700 Indian soldiers and labourers who lost their lives on the Western Front during the First World War and have no known graves. The location of the memorial was specially chosen as it was at Neuve Chapelle in March 1915 that the Indian Corps fought its first major action as a single unit. The memorial takes the form of a sanctuary enclosed within a circular wall after the manner of the enclosing railings of early Indian shrines. The column in the foreground of the enclosure stands almost 15 feet high and was inspired by the famous inscribed columns erected by the Emperor Ashkora throughout India in the 3rd century BC. The column is surmounted with a Lotus capital, the Imperial British Crown and the Star of India. Two tigers are carved on either side of the column guarding the temple of the dead. On the lower part of the column the words ‘God is One, He is the Victory’ are inscribed in English, with similar texts in Arabic, Hindi, and Gurmukhi.
The memorial was designed by the celebrated British architect, Sir Herbert Baker, and unveiled by the Earl of Birkenhead on 7 October 1927. Lord Birkenhead, then Secretary of State for India, had served as a staff officer with the Indian Corps during the war. The ceremony was also attended by the Maharaja of Karputhala, Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Rudyard Kipling, and a large contingent of Indian veterans.'
(CWGC Debt of Honour Register)