Located on the Northern end of the Kolkata Maidan the Glorious...



Located on the Northern end of the Kolkata Maidan the Glorious Dead Cenotaph is the most well known of the WWI Memorials of Kolkata. It is popularly but wrongly known as the “Memorial of Unknown Soldiers.” Built in 1924 the  Glorious Dead Cenotaph commemorates those Calcutta British and Anglo Indians who gave their lives for King and Country between 1914 and 1918. The Eastern side of the cenotaph bears the inscription “Glorious Dead” on the lower portion. Strangely the memorial contains no plaques with the names of those fallen and probably because of this the memorial is commonly known as the memorial of unknown soldiers. by Famous Places in India



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