William Oliver Lamacroft died 1881

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

Since I was able to read the inscription on this stone
I separated it from a snap that appears in another post
NAINITAL CEM

Naini Tal Cemetery October 2014

From right WILLIAM OLIVER LAMACROFT, Soldier, died 1881,
JAMES P GLOVER, JOHN TUNSILL AND PRIVATE xx MOORE

**

I visited the Naini Tal cemetery on Friday Oct 24, 2014
where on my first visit ever to the hill station I chanced
upon the graves of my grand uncle, Edward Thomas
Shepherd and his two sons, Robert and William. That 
was in May 2012 when I posted pictures of their 
graves and a few more. I felt I had to take one more 
look to see what was left because I'd noticed that the 
cemetery, though located within the cantonment, was 
in a bad condition. It seemed worse this time! One 
slab from one grave had been overturned and it 
looked as if someone had examined the contents.
Not many people get to look inside an old grave and
fewer still inside a grave filled with shingle because
the area is completely bereft of earth.

It just wasn't possible to get the name
 because the slab was too heavy

While checking an old email of Peter's, Edward's grandson who lives in Australia and the son of Late Frank Shepherd, I noted that Peter recalled that this cemetery was not called the Naini Tal Cemetery but vaguely remembered it was called Kala Khan cemetery! Being an
old burial ground, not in use anymore, there was no name but I asked a old hill resident, actually a school friend of mine, Richard Wheeler, from Almora and he said the area was/is known as Kelakhan. He told me he'd
find out the name of the cemetery as well!

Looking at the gateway from inside on either side
 there are the remnants of headstones but no sign
of the graves

My grandson, Aden McFarland and his parents
 in the distance

IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
OUR LITTLE SHEILA
BORN 30TH JANUARY 1919
DIED 21ST JULY 1929
ONLY DAUGHTER OF
PETER AND NORAH WARREN
-----------------
NONE KNEW THEE BUT TO LOVE THEE
NONE NAMED THEE BUT TO PRAISE

IN LOVING MEMORY
OF 
DEE ANDERSON
DAUGHTER OF
ROBERT AND MARGARET ANDERSON
PORTADOWN, IRELAND
DIED 1ST JULY 1940

IN MEMORY 
OF MY DEEPLY LOVED HUSBAND
CAPT MARK DARRELL JAMES
83 FIELD BATTERY ROYAL ARTILLERY
BORN IN BERMUDA  8 NOV 1896
DIED AT NAINI TAL 2? SEPT 1936
THE RESULT OF A POLO ACCIDENT

CWGC
(C'WEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION)
HOPKINS L R
29 APRIL 1916

MANY GRAVES ARE NOW COVERED WITH MOSS AND MUCK

XXXARMY NUMBERXXX
PTE G. GOODALL
XX ROYAL WEST(?) KENT ARTILLERY
DIED NAINITAL NOV ?? 1920
R.I.P.

THE MEMORY OF
WILLIAM JAMES
THE BELOVED SON OF
J.T. AND C (G?) DEAN
ASST. APOTHECARY
WHO DEPARTED XXX?
XXXXXXX?
BORN X?X? MAY  1870
XXXX
XXX

THIS STONE DOES NOT MARK THE SPOT OF BURIAL. IT LAY
 IN THE GRASS BESIDE THE GRAVE OF 
EDWARD T. SHEPHERD, ABOUT 20 METRES FROM 
THE GATEWAY,  WHEN THIS BLOGGER VISITED TWO 
YEARS AGO.
IN TREASURED MEMORY
OF
MABEL (MABS)
DEARLY LOVED WIFE AND SWEETHEART OF
CAPT T.G. GRICE (SCOPS?)
AND DARLING MOTHER OF
CHARMAINE AND ARTHUR
WHO FELL ASLEEP IN CHRIST
ON 10TH APRIL 1944
AGED 49 YEARS
(I was told later that Arthur here
is the late Anglo Indian MLA Mr A.C Grice
from Kanpur)

IN SAD AND SACRED
REMEMBRANCE
OF
MY VERY DEAR HUSBAND
EDWIN EUSTACE MACLEOD
WHO DIED AT NAINI TAL
SEPTEMBER 15TH 1935
------------
XXXXXX
XXXXX

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
A MUCH REGRETTED  BROTHER
IVAN ERNEST
MIDDLETON
BORN 28TH JULY 1876
DIED 10TH MAY 1933
AGED 57 YEARS
RIP
THERE IS A LINK DEATH CANNOT SEVER
ERECTED BY HIS SORROWING SISTER
ESME M. MIDDLETON

"A LIGHT IS FROM
OUR HOUSEHOLD GONE
A VOICE WE LOVED IS STILL'D
A PLACE IS VACANT 
IN OUR HOME
WHICH NEVER WILL BE FILLED"
MAJOR CSP(?) SANWAL
BORN ON 3RD OCTOBER 1930
DIED ON 6/7 DECEMBER 1970

INTO THY HANDS I COMMEND MY SPIRIT
IN LOVING MEMORY 
OF
KATHERINE ROSALIND SANWAL
BORN 16TH OCTOBER 1902
DIED 22ND NOVEMBER 1962
-------------
(SOME OF THE GRAVES HAVE BEEN REPEATED
LIKE THE SANWALS. I HAD PUT THESE TWO GRAVES UP AFTER
MY FIRST VISIT HERE TWO YEARS AGO)

Herbert Thomas MacFarland 1881-1955

HERBERT THOMAS MACFARLAND
BORN 17th OCTOBER 1881
DIED 10th SEPTEMBER 1955
AGED 74 YEARS

"He is not dead but asleep"
Nishatganj Cem Lucknow

Joseph Michael 1921-1995

FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH
AND THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL
LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR
 LORD     Romans 6: 23
MEMORY OF PAPA
MR JOSEPH MICHAEL
BORN: 24-04-1921
DIED: 24-03-1995
ARMY EX SERVICEMAN
REGT BENGAL ENGER
No 74213
UNIT No 1 (EM)
WAR 1939-1945

I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE

WHOEVER BELIEVES I ME 

THOUGH HE DIES, YET SHALL HE LIVE

                                                   John 11:25

       IN MEMORY OF MAMA

       MRS MARY MICHAEL

       BORN ON 29TH NOV 1929

         DIED ON 25 NOV 2012

TREASURED MEMORIES FOREVER OF YOU

"TODAY TOMORROW AND ALL LIFE

THROUGH"

Minor sons of Col Lenny Fernandez died 1957 & 1963

In Loving Memory
of
BRUCE COLIN FERNANDEZ
DIED 7TH SEPTEMBER 1957
AGED 5
The second son of Col Leonard (Lenny) Fernandez
 & Marie Fernandez 
(Jullundur)
This photo was taken by Col Fernandez in 
December 1971. The grave, in the Royal Artillery
 recently Cemetery, Jalandhar on a recently 
was visit was found to have been demolished 
along with an unknown number of other memorials.
Also missing is the grave of Flight Lt Frederic Pereira
who was killed in the 1971 Indo-Pak war.

(York Road Cemetery, New Delhi)  

           

               In Loving Memory

                                of

     BARRY CORNELL FERNANDEZ

               BORN 25-10-1955

               DIED 13-4-1963

       7 YEARS 4 MONTHS 16 DAYS

      I SAW A SHIP A SAILING

     THAT WAS YOUR FAVOURITE POEM

     AND YOU, LIKE A SHIP, SAILED

     THROUGH AND OUT OF OUR LIVES

      LEAVING US RICHER

      BY YOUR TIME WITH US

       YOUR EVER LOVING PARENTS

      COL LENNY & MARIE FERNANDEZ

      BROTHERS BRIAN & KEITH

      SISTERS BRENDA & SANDRA

                                &

                      LOVED ONES

(From Brian Fernandez)

     

Army pilot,
Col Lenny Fernandez
 died 2009
 Devlali, Maharashtra

Allan Richard Baker 1947-2000

Photo: Brian Fernandez, a retired teacher, who was appointed
 by Allan and has been a part of Barnes School since 1987.  

Allan a member of the
1967 LMC Rugby team 

LMC Staff photo: Allan along 
with Gordon Keelor
Late Gordon, brother of  IAF pilots
 Denzil  and Trevor Keelor,  was 
husband to former Principal of
LMGC, Flo Keelor

         IN LOVING MEMORY OF
   ALLAN RICHARD BAKER
       BORN 11TH SEPT 1947
       DIED 22 DEC 2000
He is survived by his wife Arzoo and son, Brendon
and a younger brother, Neville, in Australia

Allan, who was Principal, Barns School, Devlali, Maharashtra 
when he passed away, was from an Allahabad family and had studied in La Martiniere College, Lucknow where he returned in 1969 to teach for the next 10 years. He was an all-round sportsman but his flair for hockey was believed, by those in the know, to be something he inherited from his father who tragically died in and industrial accident at an early age. His sense of fair play and honesty showed when, in an unusual (for LMC) reshuffle, he was transferred  from Hodson House to Cornwallis House on the day that the two teams faced off on the hockey field. Cornwallis beat Hodson!!

Lieut Col Wridenhall Roberts Pogson died 1843 at Benares

Atul Hundoo

The resting place of Lieut Col W.R. Pogson died 1843
Photos by my young friend and colleague Atul Hundoo
Twenty nine years ago I chanced upon this grave, encircled
  by small shops or gumtis, with just the dome visible from
the slightly raised level-crossing nearby. Since my arrival in
 Varanasi in October 1984, while working for The Pioneer,
 I had visited most places that attract tourists and
the devout, the temples, ghats, Sarnath and
the Benaras Hindu University. I also visited two Christian
cemeteries, one in the Cantonment and the other on
the Sarnath side of the Varuna river, to find the grave of
my great grandmother, Amelia Martha Shepherd,
nee Hand, died circa 1903 which was there and intact!
The cemetery was divided by the main road in unequal
 parts. The older, larger 18th century section,  had
a tall obelisk to the memory of  four Britishers who
 had been killed by Wazer Ali in 1799. This was quite a
surprise because it was something I had learnt
 in history in class VII  and forgotten!
Back to the present: Atul Hindoo who had been visiting
Varanasi frequently was off on another trip, this time to
take pictures for a coffee table book. After explaining
to him the location with the help of a Google map he
located the grave. While the Pogson memorial is in
relatively good condition, no thanks to the
Archaeological Survey of India, one can see it is
being used for other purposes.

The inscription, painted over by a self-appointed
 Keeper, reads:
Sacred
TO THE MEMORY OF
LIEUTENANT COLONEL
WRIDENHALL ROBERTS POGSON
OF THE XLII REGIMENT
NATIVE INFANTRY 
BORN XX JULY 1789
DIED AT BENARES 
ON THE 6TH(?) OF AUGUST 1843
AGED
56 YEARS ONE MONTH AND SIX(?) DAYS
THE MEMORIAL IS ERECTED 
BY THE OFFICERS OF THE FORTY SEVETH
AND HIS FRIENDS AND FAMILY
(LAST LINE ILLEGIBLE)
The spelling of his
given first name differs from other records
FIBIS records show that as a major commanding
the 47th NI in 1838, Pogson's
youngest daughter, Susan Lucretia, died aged
1 year 11 months and was buried at 
Church Cemetery, Agra Cantonment
Source: Typed by Brig H Bullock 17-12-1948

Superstitions are often created with an ulterior
 motive. 

This pic shows that Pogson who died 171 yrs ago 
likes tea and cigarettes. There are is also the
grave of Capt Wales at Musabagh, Lucknow
and a grave in Agra were cigarettes and
booze are offered.  

Above the rly tracks (running from L to R)
 is  the cantonment. Memorial in circle.