Monument and memorial, Chattogram
Chittagong War Cemeteryচট্টগ্রাম ওয়ার সিমেট্রি
- Time needed
- Half an hour to an hour.
- Cost
- Free.
The Commonwealth war cemetery of the Second World War, a lawn of 700-odd graves under the trees at Badsha Mia Road: soldiers and airmen of Britain, India, Africa, Burma, Japan and the Netherlands who died on the Burma front.
Plan your visit
- Opening
- Daily in daylight hours; closed briefly at midday.
At a glance
- Burials
- About 730, Second World War
- Kept by
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- Where
- Badsha Mia Road, near the Finlay guest house
About
Chattogram was a base of the Burma campaign, and the British Army laid out this cemetery during the war for about four hundred men who died in its hospitals and air stations. After 1945 graves were brought in from the Lushai Hills, Cox's Bazar, Dohazari and other places along the front, and today the Commonwealth War Graves Commission looks after some 730 burials: British, Indian, East and West African, Burmese, Dutch and Canadian servicemen, Japanese prisoners of war, and a few civilians. A memorial names the Muslim soldiers whose graves could not be marked individually.
The cemetery sits in a dip between hills off Badsha Mia Road, a long green lawn with the rows of headstones, a cross of sacrifice and flowering trees; the city's noise falls away at the gate. The register is kept in the gatehouse and visitors may look up a name. It is one of the calmest places in Chattogram.
Getting there: A CNG to Badsha Mia Road from GEC or the station, about 15 minutes.
Things to do
- Walk the rows and read the headstones; look up a regiment in the register.
Good to know
- Keep off the graves and keep voices down; no picnics.
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