Chittagong / Bombay 1939-1945 War Memorials
- Country Bangladesh
- Total identified casualties 0 Find these casualties
- GPS Coordinates Latitude: 22.35721, Longitude: 91.82825
Please note
Please be aware that there are several open storm drains in this Cemetery.
Location information
The Roll of Honour is located within Chittagong War Cemetery, which is in Dampara locality, No 19 Badsha Mia Chowdhury Road, 22 kilometres north of the airport and 8 kilometres from the port on a site which was formerly paddy fields, but which has now been developed. It is near the arts college and close by Finlay's Guest Houses near Chatteshanry Road; a well known road leading to the Hindu Kali Bari Temple. There is no C.W.G.C. road direction sign.
Visiting information
Please note, Chittagong is now known officially as Chattogram.
Chittagong War Cemetery is open every day between 08:00-12:00 and 14:00-17:00. Wheelchair access possible via main entrance. For further information regarding wheelchair access, please contact our Enquiries Section on telephone number 01628 507200. The cemetery gates are open from 07.00 to 12 noon and 14.00 to 17.00.
History information
India and Bangladesh have identical Memorials to the Missing in the Bombay and Chittagong 1939-1945 Memorials, each commemorating the same 6,470 casualties of the Royal Indian Navy and the Indian Merchant Navy.
The BOMBAY / CHITTAGONG MEMORIALS commemorate over 400 sailors of the former Indian Navy and over 6,000 sailors of the former Indian Merchant Navy who were lost at sea during the war years.
The memorials take the form of a finely bound Roll of Honour volume, one copy held at the Indian Seamen's Home Bombay and the other in Chittagong War Cemetery.
The statistics are quoted only within the commemoration figures for INDIA.
Casualty details can be found within the Bombay / Chittagong 1939-1945 War Memorials entries of the Debt of Honour Database.