British Cemetery at Baithkol, Karwar, India, the Forgotten Soldiers

There are two Cemeteries located within the compound of the Detachment Project Seabird at Baithkol. The Catholic cemetery is under the Parish Priest of the High Church, Karwar and is presently under use. There is a possibility that any old graves would have been removed. The other cemetery, the British Cemetery is maintained by the Parish Priest of the Down Church, Karwar. This cemetery is in fairly good condition and the under growth is being periodically cleared. There are 24 graves, and some of the headstones are broken and un-numbered. Many a 'forgotten and unknown soldier' lies here. (Comparing these graves with the graves of the Agram Cemetery, Bangalore, the shapes of the monuments are different, and one can find crosses on the stones at Baithkol which are missing in Agram. The Agram Cemetery is another project that Admiral O.S. Dawson is championing to restore, this cemetery started around 1809.) Since the cemeteries are within the limits of the Project Seabird, visits are restricted with special permission from the Defense Authorities. However, with the courtesy of Admiral O.S. Dawson I.N.(Retd), PVSM, AVSM, Former Chief of the Naval Staff, and Former High Commissioner for India in New Zealand, through his official sources, the following information is being made available.

Search is on for the grave or location of the same of a Dennis Kincaid, student of Maratha history and champion of Shivaji, who drowned at Karwar on 10 June 1937, anyone knowing the details please inform ronniejohnson@hotmail.com or John A. Payne, Honorary Treasurer of British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia.

Photographs of the Cemetery, courtesy Rear Admiral SR Sampathgopal, AVSM, NM, Director General, Project Seabird, New Delhi, through Admiral OS Dawson (Retd).

Sl	Name	Date of Death	Place of Death	Details
1	GEORGE STLIBBS	29 Jan 1865
2	Not written
3	EDWARD JONES	29 Oct 1895.
4	Not Written
5	HELLEN JANE	06 Jun 1872
6	WILLIAM EARNEST FALLSILNNY	Not Readable
7	THOMAS JONES	20 Apr 1863
8	HENRY JOHN RAWLE	25 Mar 1872
9	EMMA JULIA LOUIS	12 Sep 1872
10	HENRY INGLE	12 Jul 1898		F/o --, Karwar
11	Not Written
12	Not Written
13	Not Written
14	ELIZABETH DE'CRUZ	22 Oct 1875
15	ERNEST HASENVANDEL	23 Nov 77 (1877)
16	Not Written
17	Not Written
18	CAPT. ECG MADOOCK IMS	01 May 1908	Karwar
19	ROBERT NIBLOCK	07 Nov 1890		Royal Artillery
20	EVANGELINE MARY BELL	17 July 1941
21	THOMAS REID DAVYES BELLCIE	24 Jun 1948
22	GEORGE TRAIL	06 Dec 1869 Aged 32 Yrs & 8 Months		(Late Engineer) In-Charge of Nicol & Co’s Works. Karwar
23	LOISA	02 Aug 1867		W/0 HORATIO RHODES NELSON (Eng Bombay)
24	Not Written

British Cemetery at Baithkol, Karwar near Mangalore, India