Driver Sher Dil Indian Mountain Artillery

[Will O'Brien]

As per CWGC

Name: SHER DIL

Nationality: Indian

Rank: Driver

Regiment: Indian Mountain Artillery

Unit Text: 2nd Mountain Bty.

Date of Death: 19/02/1918

Service No: 678

Additional information: Son of Zaman Ali Khan, of Balawara, Murree, Rawalpindi, Punjab.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Memorial: MONASTIR ROAD INDIAN MEMORIAL

[Will O'Brien]

& the memorial info

Cemetery: MONASTIR ROAD INDIAN MEMORIAL

Country: Greece

Visiting Information: Visitors should contact the Local Supervisor for additional help and to collect keys because the cemetery is now kept locked.

Location Information: The Memorial is within the Monastir Road Indian Cemetery and is 3 kilometres from the centre of Thessaloniki on the main road to Edessa. It is situated near a level crossing and is well sign-posted.

Historical Information: The cemetery was made between 1916 and 1920, and is made up of two plots - the southern plot, containing burials, and the northern plot, in which the remains of over 200 Indian servicemen were cremated in accordance with their faith. The men served mainly with the Royal Artillery, the Transport Corps of Bharatpur and Indore, the Mule Corps and, after 1918, certain Indian regiments. There are now 357 Indian servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. The northern plot contains a memorial with panels bearing the names of those who were cremated. The cemetery also contains the Monastir Road Indian Memorial, bearing the names of over 160 Indian servicemen who died in Macedonia during the First World War, whose graves could not be marked or moved.

No. of Identified Casualties: 161