Name:

Dadan Khan

Rank:

Driver

Service number:

783738

Regiment:

Royal Indian Army Service Corps – Force K6

Date of death:

20 August 1942 Aged 22

Place of death:

Indian General Hospital, Kinrara, Alvie

Buried

Commemorated

Kingussie Cemetery

Force K6 Memorial Kingussie

Son of Mir Zaman and Bivi Ji, of Merabala, Hazara, Pakistan and husband of Noor Jahan, of Merabala. His death registration shows him as a soldier/driver aged 26 and son of Bahadur Khan. He died from tuberculosis 4 months, peritonitis 5 days and his death was registered by Captain Hedge, Commanding Officer, 3 Mule Coy., Royal Indian Army Service Corps.

The inscriptions on the gravestone, in Arabic, reads “Ho Val Ghaffoor – He, the Forgiving One” and below from the Quran “Inna Lillahi Wa Inna Ilayhi Raji’oon – Indeed we belong to Him (God) and Indeed we return to Him.”

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