The Sewri Christian Cemetery (

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: शिवडी ख्रिस्ती स्मशान भूमि ''Sewrī Kristi smashan bhumi'') in

Sewri Sewri (IAST: ''Śivdī,'' �iʋɖiː is a locality along the eastern edge of South Mumbai, in Maharashtra, India. It is also the name of a railway station on the Central Railway Harbour Line. Sewri (pronounced as Shivdi / शिवडी) was ...

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, was established by Arthur Crawford, the first Municipal Commissioner of Bombay as a location for European burials. The land was acquired from the Agri-Horticulture Society's gardens in 1865. The bodies of Commonwealth military service personnel buried in the cemetery during the

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and

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s were all exhumed and reburied at Kirkee War Cemetery where permanent maintenance by the

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could be assured, with the exception of a Second World War soldier of the

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whose grave is still registered and maintained by the commission.

People buried

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* * Cemeteries in India Buildings and structures in Mumbai Christian cemeteries 1864 establishments in India {{India-geo-stub