On Wednesday (February 12, 2025), Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the historic Mazargue Cemetery in Marseille, France, along with French President Emmanuel Macron, to the Indian soldiers who lost their lives in World War I. I paid my respects.
At the simmon ceremony held on the site, Prime Minister Modi laid out a wreath made up of flowers with a trichol theme.
Maintained by the Federal War Graves Commission (CWGC), numerous Indian soldiers are commemorated.
World War I, also known as World War I, took place between 1914 and 18, and World War II took place between 1939 and 1945.
According to the CWGC website, “From 1939 to 45, which is currently being commemorated on this site, there are 1,487 and 267 casualties in the 1939-45 war. The CWGC website states that there are 1,487 and 267 victims of the 1939-45 war. 205 are memorialized at the memorial behind the cemetery. “The Mazargian Indian Memorial was announced in July 1925 by Mrs. Marshall of William Birdwood.
“In addition, eight members of the Egyptian Labour Corps, who were buried at the time in a new communal cemetery in Le Canet, but whose graves were later lost, are commemorated by stone tablets on the wall to the left of the war cemetery. “I said.
The cemetery covers an area of 9,021 square meters, according to the CWGC website.
-PTI
