Chattri Memorial.
One of 70 digital photographs (in two size formats) of the Chattri Memorial near Brighton, photographed by Giles Penfound for the ‘Black Asian British Army’ project, Aug 2008.
Associated with World War One (1914-1918).

The memorial to the Indian Army was built on the Sussex Downs near Brighton in 1921. The Chattri marks the place where 53 Sikh and Hindu Indian Army soldiers, who had died in hospitals in Brighton and Hove, were cremated. Muslim soldiers were buried in the Muslim Burial Ground not far from the Shah Jehan Mosque in Woking.