Roorkee Cemetery

Roorkee pics
 from Brian Fernandez

SACRED
to
the Memory of
HENRI PAULMYER
PAU FRANCE
WHO DIED AT HURDWAR OF WOUNDS
RECEIVED FROM A TIGER
APRIL 1874
HIS GOODNESS AND GENTLENESS 
ATTRACTED THE REGARD OF ALL
HE RECEIVED THE SACRAMENTS
OF THE CHURCH
REQUIESCAT IN PACE
**
THIS STONE IS ERECTED BY HIS
REGRETFUL MASTER
COL F.R. MAUNSELL

(EARLE:
SC MEERUT)(Sculptors)

IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
ELIZABETH CHARTERS
WIDOW OF THE LATE
LIEUT. C. CHARTERS
WHO DIED AT ROORKEE ON
THE 5TH AUGUST 1911 AGED 74 YEARS
*
HONOURED AND LOVED, AND FULL OF DAYS,
WE LAID THEE IN THE SILENT EARTH
AND HERE THIS HUMBLE STONE WE RAISE
A TRIBUTE TO A PARENT'S WORTH

Whie the Roorkee Cemetery is under the protection
 of the Archaeological Survey of India it is still being
used for burials today

This old carriage for the coffin from the
 gate to the  graveside is something
one would not expect to find in any
 cemetery in India.

Sacred to the Memory
of
COMPANY SERGEANT MAJOR
EDWARD APPLEYARD
THE DEARLY BELOVED HUSBAND OF
SARAH APPLEYARD
WHO DIED AT ROORKEE ON THE 4TH JULY 1892
AGED 37 YEARS
**
ALSO HIS SON
EDWARD APPLEYARD
WHO DIED AT ROORKEE ON THE 19TH MARCH 1892
AGED  4 YEARS AND 10 MONTHS
**
Would consolation, did it only know
Bring near those Friends, whose soft affections glow
To look upon him as in pain he lies
Beseeching their caresses 'ere he dies
**
Gone but not forgotten

J.V. CLAIR Sc
MEERUT
(Sculptors)