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Additional
Information: |
Son of
William Grady, and of Katherine Ann Grady, of Wheatley Hill, Co. Durham. |
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Cemetery:
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MAYNAMATI
WAR CEMETERY, Bangladesh |
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Grave
Reference/ |
2. E.
13. |
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Location:
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Maynamati is some 7 kilometres from the centre of
Comilla, which is on the railway line linking Dhaka to Chittagong. It can be
reached by train to Comilla railway station, 9 kilometres from the cemetery,
or by the Dhaka - Chittagong highway. The cemetery is 1 kilometre down the
road leading from Comilla to Sylinet and a short distance past the Cantonment
Military Hospital. There is a C.W.G.C. road direction sign on a roundabout at
the crossroad. |
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Historical
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Before
the war Maynamati was a hamlet of a few dozen huts, but during the war a
large military camp was established there. Several ordnance depots and a
number of military hospitals, both British and Indian, were in the area,
including Nos. 14 and 150 British General Hospitals; and the majority of the
burials in Maynamati War Cemetery were from the various hospitals. Graves
from isolated places in the surrounding country, and some from as far afield
as Burma, were moved into the cemetery by the Army Graves Service and later
on by the Commission; and it was found necessary to transfer also graves from
small cemeteries at Dacca, Faridpur, Paksay, Saidpur, Santahan and Sirajgany,
where they could not be maintained. The cemetery was started by the Army and
laid out by the garrison engineer. It is dominated by a small flat-topped
hill crowned with indigenous flowering and evergreen trees. Between the
entrance and this hill lie the Christian graves, and on the far side of it
are the Muslim graves. On a terrace about half-way up the hill, facing the
entrance, stands the Cross of Sacrifice, and on the other side a shelter
looks over the Muslim graves to a tree-framed view of the countryside beyond.
There are now over 700, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this cemetery. |