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 Roorkee Old Christian Cemetery

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Date transcribed2016-02-25
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentWANT A PHOTOGRAPH OF ONE OF THESE HEADSTONES?

This is one of the graveyards for which FIBIS commissioned Mr Rajat Sharma to take photographs and details of all legible headstones. All inscriptions are included wherever they are legible.

If you would like to order copies of photographs of any headstone listed in this index please make a note of the Image Reference and order copies on our Cemeteries Project page where you will also find more details about this exciting project.

NOTE that the address of this cemetery is Right Bank Canal Road, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, and its co-ordinates are:
29 deg. 51.347 min. N
77 deg. 52.525 min. E

Image Ref.  167    
Surname  Young    
First Name  David Bernard Kennedy    
Rank  Lieutenant    
Regiment  Royal Engineers    
Date of Death  13 February 2028    
Age at Death  22y    
Inscription  To the beloved Memory of David Bernard Kennedy Young, Lieutenant Royal Engineers, of Paignton Devon, who died at Roorkee, February 13th 1928, aged 22 years, and of his father Lt. Col. David Coley Young, killed at Neuve Chappelle, on March 12th 1915 while commanding his Battalion the 1st/4th P.W.O. Gurkha Rifles. ""He scarce had need to doff his pride, or slough the dross of earth, even as he trod that day to God, so walked he from his birth in simpleness and gentleness and honoured and clean mirth. They rise to their feet as He passes by, gentlemen unafraid"".    
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Photos and details of Inscriptions of tombstones taken at Roorkee, Uttarakhand, formerly United Provinces.
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