Ronald & Doris Lyons died 2005 and 1982

Doris and Ronald Lyons

Metal plate and cross marks the burial place of
Albert Barnabas 

Photos from the Bilaspur Cemetery

(Top photo)

IN LOVING MEMORY OF 
         OUR DARLING

MUM  & DAD

DORIS G LYONS 
BORN: 10-3-1930
DIED: 22-3-1982
(IN BILASPUR)
          &
RONALD H LYONS
BORN: 7-4-1920
DIED: 23-4-2005
in Australia, cremated and the  ashes buried in Bilaspur.



  

Ronald, who moved to Australia after his wife Doris' death to be with his sons, Mark and William, had retired form the railway. The two elder sons studied at La Martiniere College, Lucknow and two daughters in a school in Cuttack, Orissa. Bruce, the youngest of the three sons, and one daughter also moved to Australia while one daughter still lives in Bilaspur. William, whose wife was also from a Bilaspur railway family, and I, were class fellows at LMC.
I was surprised to hear that Bilaspur still has a sizable AI community, unlike most of the railway colonies in the central and northern states of the country.
(Pics of the Bilaspur, Chattisgarh cemetery taken in December 2013)

Nainital graveyard 2012 & 2014

2012 visit to Naini Tal

I caught a glimpse of this cemetery, that

Friday 24 Oct 2014: William Oliver Lamacroft

falls within the Nainital Cantonment, while returning from
Bhimtal. The next morning accompanied by a son-in-law, Warren Hopkins and my son (in pic) we
strolled down about three km from our hotel
to take a look. Cemeteries have always attracted
me but finding the graves of my grand uncle
Edward Shepherd and two of his sons came as
a surprise. Warren had visited this graveyard
a few years earlier because he happened to pass this way and remember there were more graves near the entrance that seem to have disappeared

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
WILLIAM OLIVER LAMACROFT
HM 65TH REGT
WHO DIED AT NAINITAL
ON THE 18TH APRIL 1881
AGED 26 YEARS

Warren Hopkins at the cemetery entrance      

Maj CSP Sanwal 1930-1970

MAJOR CSP SANWAL
BORN ON 3RD OCT 1930
DIED ON 6/7 DEC 1970


The other grave is that of
Maj Sanwal's mother,
 Katherine Rosland Sanwal
1902-1962

(Nainital Cemetery)

Walter Herbert Baxter 1914-18 veteran

           TO THE 
BELOVED MEMORY OF
WALTER HERBERT BAXTER
LT COLONEL THE DORSETSHIRE REGIMENT

VETERAN OF THE MESOPOTAMIAN CAMPAIGN
1914-18.

The upkeep of graves of war veterans is funded by the Commonwealth wargraves Commission. Below is a grave under renovation. The same is being carried out at the Bandariabagh Cem in Lucknow. The funds are obviously limited so one wonders how many graves get done and
how many just disappear!!

(Buried in the Nainital Cemetery: The inscription 
is illegible. The pic was taken in May 2012 when I
visited Nainital for the first time. Unfortunately I lost
the notebook in which I written details from the graves.
Blogger: George Shepherd)

IT WAS GOOD TO FIND THE WALTER BAXTER GRAVE INTACT IN OCT 2014

Kamal Koomari died 1890

TO THE MEMORY 
              OF
KAMAL KOOMARI
THE DEARLY LOVED
          WIFE OF
SAMUEL S. DAY
BORN DEC 18TH 1851
DIED NOV 22ND 1890


(Nishatganj Cem, Lucknow)

Violet Foster died 1928

IN LOVING MEMORY
OF OUR DEAR SISTER
VIOLET ROSALIA FOSTER
DIED 21ST APRIL 1928

(Nishatganj Cem, Lucknow)

John Sykes 1852-1895

JOHN GASKELL WALKER SYKES

BARRISTER-AT-LAW
BORN SEPT 21ST, 1852
DIED MAY 29TH 1895


(This pic taken 9-3-2015)