The BBC has a report on the British Garrison Cemetery in Sri Lanka, established in 1817, and today taken care of by Charles Carmichael for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
The full story is at www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14984188
(With thanks to the FFHSEzine on Paper.li)
* An article written by yours truly on the Scots cemetery in Kolkata, India, is available in Discover my Past Scotland issue 5 (April 2009), available as a back issue online atwww.discovermypast.co.uk.
Chris
The Scottish GENES Blog (GEnealogy News and EventS): Top news stories and features concerning ancestral research in Scotland, Ireland, the rest of the UK, and their diasporas, from genealogist and family historian Chris Paton. Feel free to quote from this blog, but please credit Scottish GENES if you do. I'm on Mastodon @scottishgenes and Threads @scottishgenesblog - to contact me please email chrismpaton @ outlook.com. Cuimhnich air na daoine o'n d'thà inig thu!
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