Chattri

The Chattri is a First World War memorial near Patcham (part of the city of Brighton and Hove) on the south coast of England. It was unveiled in 1921 in memory of 74 Indian soldiers who died in military hospitals in Brighton, and in particular of 53 Hindus and Sikhs who were cremated on the site. More than a million Indians fought in the British Indian Army during the First World War (1914–1918), of whom 140,000 served in Europe. Over 4,300 were treated in temporary hospitals in Brighton between December 1914 and February 1916 and the Hindus and Sikhs who died there were cremated at a remote hilltop location. A proposal for a memorial on the cremation site was advanced by the mayor of Brighton and funding was agreed between the local council and the British government. The monument was designed by Elias Cosmas Henriques under the supervision of Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob, and takes the form of a chattri or chhatri ('umbrella' in several Indian languages), an elevated dome-shaped pavilion. The dome is in white marble and stands on one end of a grey stone terrace, which covers the ghats (funeral pyres) used for the cremations. The unveiling ceremony took place on 1 February 1921, presided over by Edward, Prince of Wales. The monument was subsequently allowed to fall into disrepair and was damaged by rifle practice in the Second World War. The Royal British Legion organised a pilgri

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