Name: |
Ghulam Nabi |
Rank: |
Driver |
Service number: |
179422 |
Regiment: |
Royal Indian Army Service Corps – Force K6 |
Date of death: |
28 September 1943 Aged 24 |
Place of death: |
Indian General Hospital, Dornoch Hotel, Dornoch |
Buried Commemorated |
Dornoch (Proncynain) Cemetery Force K6 Memorial Kingussie |
His rank of Driver was that of a mule driver. He was single, the son of Khair Din and Said Jan, of Dhir Kot, Hazara, Pakistan. On his death registration his father Kahair Din is described as a cultivator. His cause of death is given as (a) Tuberculosis 5 months (b) abscess 15 days (c) Peritonitis 15 days. His death was registered by a Major in the Indian Army Medical Corps.
Gulam Nabi is buried beside his colleague Abdul Rakhman. Between their gravestones a stone was erected, in 1960, to Ram Bhopal. He was a commercial traveller, who had lived at the ‘Mound.’ It is believed that he is not actually buried there and having died in Inverness this memorial was placed next to his fellow countrymen even though they were of different faiths.
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.”