Gurkha Cemetery
Sulva Lines
Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia
This is located approximately three miles south east of the town of Ipoh on the Tanjong Rambutan Road
The camp in which this cemetery lies was previously known as the Sulva lines and is now occupied by the Malaysian Forces.
The cemetery lies inside the camp some 500 yards from the entrance, at the foot of a stone cliff.
It is a small compact cemetery in a wired enclosure containing the graves of 100 Gurkha soldiers, wives and children.
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Graves Layout
Photographs taken by John Crossley Leicester Branch NMBVA
during the service held there on Saturday 18th June 2005
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Gurkha Pipers from Brunei in the back ground playing the lament
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For the past two years this service of remembrance to the Gurkha Soldiers and Families
has been arranged by R.Thambipillay (Hon MBE) Rtd. Superintendent Royal Malaysia Police Ipoh.
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