Paris, February 12 (PTI), Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the historical cemetery of Los Mazares in the city of Marseille on Wednesday with French president Emmanuel Macron and paid tribute to the Indian who made fighting sacrifices in the great Wararray
During a solemn rite on the site, Modi raised a crown composed of flowers on the subject of Habs.
A giant number of Indian infantry soldiers are found in this war cemetery that is maintained through the Commonwealth War Tombs Commission (CWGC).
Modi, who is visiting 3 days in France, headed on Tuesday AI’s action summit with President Emmanuel Macron and addressed the leaders.
He arrived in Paris on February 10.
World War I, also called Great War, took position in 1914-188, while World War II occurred in 1939-1945.
According to the CWGC website, “there are now 1,487, 1914-18 and 267, 1939-45 of the patients of the commemorated war on this site. 205 Indian patients, cremated, commemorate in a monument in the back of the cemetery. The Indian monument of Mazargues was presented through Marshal Sir William Birdwood in July 1925.
“In addition, 8 members of the Egyptian hard work body, who were buried in the cemetery of the new community of the new communal at that time, however, whose graves were lost later, they are in a stone pill on the wall of the wall of the Left of the war cemetery, “he said.
The cemetery covers a 9,021 m², according to the CWGC website. PTI KNS Ams
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