Bill Jenkins came to Bangalore
to blow a ‘lament’ at the St. John’s Cemetery at Kalpally, having accompanied
him along with Admiral O.S. Dawson and Jean his wife, I took the opportunity
to go around the Cemetery and captured only a few photographs
of some the graves that caught my eye. Here are some
photographs of graves from my collection of 1999, these can be found on my 'Forgotten Soldiers' webpage. Some
of the graves have been destroyed after the visit. Quite a few photographs of some graves can also be found on Bill Jenkins visit to St. John's Cemetery, Kalpully page.
There are hundreds of graves that need to be recorded and photographed.
I added this page as a separate section because the uploading of the page
and downloading of images would be eased on my website.If any
of you visitors have any photographs of old graves
related to any of the Cemeteries in Bangalore, Protestant or Catholic,
and if you are willing to share these images, please send the same to my
email address and I will put them up on similar pages as this, or let me
know how I can link them from your own pages.
In the year 1996, Admiral O.S. Dawson along with his team did a total
inventory of this Cemetery and also made a blueprint of the locations of
graves and names of those buried there. Researchers have to really thank
the Admiral for his gallant attempts at documenting and restoring some of
the lost archives of the Protestant Cemeteries. He has done great work in
encouraging the Church authorities to maintain the Cemeteries under their
care. St. John's Cemetery, Kalpully is an example of his great and
successful effort. Every time the Admiral comes to the Cemetery,
he has a word with the security of the MEG gate
as to how the leaves from their compound are dumped over the Cemetery
wall. How much can one person keep doing?
His last passion in Cemeteries is the Agram Cemetery that one
can find within the premises of the ASC Officers Mess, on Trinity Church
Road, Bangalore. This Cemetery being on Defence property, foreigners need
to get permission to enter to look at the Cemetery. The other Cemeteries
available to researchers are Protestant Cemeteries No.1 & No.2 ,
Hosur Road , Bangalore.
