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Sikh Cremation Grounds Cairns Queensland Memorials Project

Sikh Cremation Grounds Cairns Queensland Memorials Project

  • October 14, 2018
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Edmonton Temple QldEdmonton Temple 2016Edmonton 2018.jpgKaram Singh Edmonton Canecutters Cairns 19341890sAloomba Canecutters Gordonvale 2011 After many years of researching Sikh History with the Sikhs in North Queensland it was decided at a meeting with the Sangat at the Edmonton Gurudwara…

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Glamalli Khan A.I.F. – WWI

Glamalli Khan A.I.F. – WWI

  • April 20, 2018
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  • A.I.F., ANZAC, Hawkers, Light Horse Regiment, Medals, Memorial, Muslim, Pioneers, Soldier, WW1

Glamallie Khan (Ghulam Ali Khan[1]) ©Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan 2017   Glamallie Khan (Ghulam Ali Khan) was the son of Azimullah (Mulla) and Roshenay Khan. His father, Mulla, was the son of Shere Khan in Mohri, Gujurat, India (now Pakistan) where…

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James Nabi-Bux  A.I.F. – WWI

James Nabi-Bux A.I.F. – WWI

  • April 20, 2018
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Sarn Singh And Nain Singh Sailani On Their 100 Anniversary Of Death Serving With A.I.F. In WWI

Sarn Singh and Nain Singh Sailani on their 100 Anniversary of Death serving with A.I.F. in WWI

  • July 11, 2017
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  • A.I.F., ANZAC, Hindu, Indian, Memorial, Sikh, Soldier, WW1

  Saturday 10th June 2017. Private Sarn Singh Johal and Private Nain Singh Sailani were honoured at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, with a Wreath Laying at the Last Post Ceremony, by the The High Commissioner of India in Australia…

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STREETS NAMED IN LAVINGTON NSW IN HONOUR OF INDIAN HAWKERS WHO HAD SERVED THE AREA.

STREETS NAMED IN LAVINGTON NSW IN HONOUR OF INDIAN HAWKERS WHO HAD SERVED THE AREA.

  • November 17, 2015
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  • Cremation, Hawkers, Hindu, Indian, Memorial, Sikh

Pre 1950 the Common at Lavington, New South Wales, was declared a cemetery and was used to cremate Indians who lived in the area, many of whom had served in the Indian Army under General Roberts. This was not unusual as…

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Bud Singh A Pioneer

Bud Singh A Pioneer

  • October 1, 2015
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  • Hawkers, Indian, Memorial, Plaque, Sikh, Soldier, Storekeeper

© Len Kenna and Crystal Jordan First Published February 2014 Bud Singh was born in 1873 in the Punjab, India. He arrived in Australia in 1899.   He stated that he was in the Cavalry in India and that he had…

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Said Ahmad – Ahmed – Hamid Shah

Said Ahmad – Ahmed – Hamid Shah

  • May 9, 2015
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  • Farmers, Hawkers, Memorial, Muslim, Plaque

© Crystal Jordan and Len Kenna Said Ahmad Shah also known as Ahmed and Hamid was a tall well built man, and a Moslem High Priest who was born in India about 1867.  He was also a Hawker in Australia…

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PUTARB SINGH – Henty New South Wales

PUTARB SINGH – Henty New South Wales

  • January 9, 2015
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  • Burial, Cremation, Hawkers, Indian, Indian Cemetery, Memorial, Plaque, Sikh

 Extract from: SIKH AND HINDU CREMATIONS IN AUSTRALIA...by Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan 2015. Putarb Singh aka Purtarb, was an itinerant hawker in Victoria and New South Wales. When he retired from hawking Putarb settled in Henty, New South Wales…

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AliBuc Indian Hawker Grave Dunkeld

AliBuc Indian Hawker Grave Dunkeld

  • June 29, 2014
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  • Burial, Hawkers, Indian, Memorial, Muslim, Pioneers

Ali Bux Khan was born ca.1861 in India. He and his wife, Boor Bebe had two children, Mahomet Fazal Khan and Reicham Bebe and lived in the village of Pahund Giran, Gujrat, Punjab, India. Ali arrived in Australia ca.1891 and…

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GUNGA SINGH MEMORIAL AT HAMILTON CEMETERY VICTORIA

GUNGA SINGH MEMORIAL AT HAMILTON CEMETERY VICTORIA

  • July 11, 2013
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  • Burial, Cremation, Hawkers, Indian, Memorial, Pioneers, Sikh

Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan © 2013 Len Kenna was born in Hamilton, Victoria, and as a young boy and he remembers an Indian Hawker, Gunter Singh, a Sikh, who visited his family home in his horse and wagon.  Len's mother…

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