Karachi 1914-18 War Memorial
Pakistan
Photo : Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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Karachi, formerly the capital of the Republic of Pakistan, is the country's only sea port and the main gateway for its trade. It is also the maritime terminus of the Pakistan Railway and its airport, situated on one of the trunk air routes of the world, gives it considerable additional importance. The city lies at the extreme western end of the delta of the Indus, on a backwater protected by a high rocky headland. To the north is dry, hilly country, while to the south creeks and mangrove swamps stretch to the sea.
The War Cemetery was created by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to receive the graves from a number of civil and cantonment cemeteries scattered through the north of Pakistan and the tribal areas, where their permanent maintenance was not possible. The imposing entrance of honey-coloured stone, quarried at Jungshai, near Hyderabad, is one part of a dual memorial the other part being in Delhi, to 25,000 men of the army and air forces of undivided India who died during the 1939-1945 War while on service in nonoperational zones. The Memorial is located at the rear of the cemetery opposite the entrance feature.
Initially the memorial was designed to commemorate those who served in garrisons and died in Pakistan (formerly part of India) during the 1914-1918 War and who lie buried in civil and cantonment cemeteries there, excluding those graves lying west of the river Indus who it was decided would be commemorated on the Delhi Memorial (India Gate). However, due to difficulties in adding to the Delhi Memorial (India Gate) in recent years, some casualties who are known to have been buried in sites west of the river Indus have subsequently been added to this memorial instead.
575 names of soldiers who lost their lives during the First World War are commemorated on the memorial.
32 of those names are for soldiers who served in the Yorkshire Regiment.
Private Frank Atkins
2330. 1st Garrison Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 2832 KOYLI. Died 3 November 1918.
Born Sheffield, Enlisted Pontefract, Resided Ferrybridge (Nr. Yorks).
(Note : On the Ferrybridge War Memorial his name is spelled "Atkin", as it is on the Medal Roll Index Card. However, both the CWGC and SDGW spell the name as "Atkins". He is not shown in the Green Howards Gazette database.)
Company Serjeant Major Ernest Harry Bailey
124781. 222nd Coy Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), formerly 8723 Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 27 October 1918.
Born Walworth (Surrey), Enlisted Stratford (Essex).
Private Fred Barker
32539. 1st Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Died 20 July 1917.
Born Topcliffe (Yorks), Enlisted Topcliffe.
Private Walter Bootland
39828. 1st Garrison Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 31933 KOYLI. Died 4 November 1918.
Born Collingham (Yorks), Enlisted Bridlington.
Private Frank Bradley
9831. 1st Garrison Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 3627 Manchester Regt. Son of Joseph and Eliza Bradley; husband of Mary Ann Bradley, of Stockport, Gtr. Manchester. Died 18 August 1918. Aged 47.
Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Darlington.
(A biography of Private Bradley can be read on www.stockport1914-1918.co.uk/soldier.php?name_id=327.)
Serjeant John Henry Cairns
22238.1st Garrison Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 9232 Durham L I. Husband of J. S. Cairns, of Haswell, Durham. Died 28 October 1918.
Born Brandon (Durham), Enlisted Sunderland, Resided Brandon.
Private Horace Colman
39475. 1st Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly (8677) Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Colman, of King's Lynn, Norfolk. Died 8 August 1919. Aged 37.
(Medal Rolls Index card shows that he had been a Serjeant in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers)
Private Charles W Cooke
8944. 1st Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Died 1 September 1919.
Private Cornelius Cronan
4079. 1st Garrison Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Died 3 November 1918.
Born Greenwich (London), Enlisted London, Resided Boston (Mass. - USA).
Private Norman Garnett
orn Cheltenham (Glos), Enlisted Bradford, Resided Windhill (Shipley - Yorks).
Private Joseph Hopkinson
21665. 1st Garrison Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 16191 York & Lacs Regt. Died 4 July 1918.
Born Lincoln, Enlisted Leeds, Resided Lincoln.
Regimental Serjeant Major Stanislaus A P Hurley
22304. 1st Garrison Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Died 2 August 1918.
Born Arungabad (Madras), Enlisted Indies Fort St George (Madras), Resided Sialkot (India).
Private Albert Ernest Inger
43467. 1st Garrison Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 74888 88th T R Battn. Son of Mrs. E. Inger, of Sneinton, Nottingham. Died 17 September 1918.
Born Nottingham, Enlisted Nottingham, Resided Sneinton (Notts).
(Shown in SDGW as "Ernest Albert Inger")
Private William Henry Johnson
39985. 1st (Garrison) Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Johnson; husband of Edith Annie Johnson, of Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland. Died 18 October 1917. Aged 40.
Enlisted Middlesbrough.
Serjeant Frederick Conway Jones
21614. 1st Garrison Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 2582 Manchester Regt. Died 3 November 1918.
Born Malvern (Worcs), Enlisted Ashton-Under-Lyne, Resided Stockport.
(Shown in the CWGC register as "Serjeant E Jones"; not shown in GH Gazette d/b)
Private William George Lockyer
40055. 1st Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of George and Emma Lockyer, of Bickley, London; husband of Margaret Lockyer. Died 28 March 1919. Aged 38.
Private David Martin
20136. 1st Garrison Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Died 23 September 1918.
Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough.
Lance Serjeant Richard Milton
66042. 1st Garrison Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 20666 Loyal North Lancs Regt. Husband of Catherine Milton, of Preston, Lancashire. Died 26 October 1918.
Born Bamber Bridge (Preston), Enlisted Preston.
Serjeant Michael Mullaney
22085. 1st Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Died 31 October 1918.
Lance Corporal Alfred Samuel Richards
9232. 1st Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Omer Alfred and Ada Richards, of St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands. Killed 9 September 1917. Aged 26.
Born St. Heliers (Jersey - C.I.), Enlisted Jersey.
Private John William Scorah
22148. 1st Garrison Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 356 West Yorks Regt. Husband of Julia Scorah, of Batley, W. Yorks. Died 30 October 1918. Aged 36.
Born Batley (Yorks), Enlisted Leeds, Resided Batley.
Private Frederick Shortland
9767. 1st Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Died 15 August 1917.
Born Bricket Wood (Watford - Herts), Enlisted Canterbury, Resided Abbots Langley (Herts).
Serjeant Riley Shuttleworth
22206. 1st Garrison Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Died 16 June 1917.
Born Keighley (Yorks), Enlisted Keighley.
(Shown in CWGC register as "J Shuttleworth")
Private William Smith
21580. 1st Garrison Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 21946 West Yorks Regt. Died 3 November 1918.
Enlisted Lancaster, Resided Liverpool.
Private Henry Charles Stokes
39983. 1st Garrison Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 30072 West Riding Regt. Died 1 August 1918.
Born Bethnal Green, Enlisted Barking.
(Shown in SDGW as "H C Stoker")
Private Harold Stolweather
43511. 1st Garrison Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Died 20 May 1918.
Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough.
Serjeant William Sutherland
22331. 1st Garrison Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 12459 East Yorkshire Regt. Son of John and Margaret Sutherland. Died 3 November 1918. Aged 42.
Born Beverley (Yorks), Enlisted Heddon, Resided Todmorden.
Private George Taylor
44823. 1st Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 5/48677 82nd T R Battalion. Son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Taylor, of Scarborough, N. Yorks. Died 27 November 1918. Aged 29.
Born Scarborough, Enlisted Richmond, Resided Scarborough.
Private James Dyson Whitaker
9418. 1st Garrison Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Alice Maud Dyson Whitaker, of Scarborough, N. Yorks. Died 6 June 1918.
Born Scarborough, Enlisted Scarborough.
Photo : Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Photo : Commonwealth War Graves Commission