Thursday, January 16, 2014

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      

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