Amara (Left Bank) 
Indian War Cemetery		  
           
Cemetery Location
Amara is a town on the left bank of the Tigris, some 520 kilometres from the sea. Amara (Left Bank) Indian War Cemetery will be found a little east of the town between the left bank of the river and the Chahaila Canal.
Cemetery Information
Amara was occupied by the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force on the 3rd June 1915, and it became at once a hospital centre. The accommodation for medical units on both banks of the river was greatly increased during 1916, and in April 1917, seven British and Indian General Hospitals, as well as other smaller formations, were stationed at Amara. 

The cemetery was made after the British occupation, and it may be taken to contain about 5,000 graves; but the records were very imperfectly kept, and the only names that are known are those of two soldiers and one follower of the Indian Army, two sailors of the Inland Water Transport, three men of the 'Iraq Railways, and one man of the Indian Labour Corps, all of whom died after November, 1918.
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