Name:

Muhammad

Rank:

Driver

Service number:

172870

Regiment:

Royal Indian Army Service Corps – Force K6 – 7 Mule Coy

Date of death:

30 October 1942 Aged 29

Place of death:

Raigmore Hospital, Inverness

Buried

Commemorated

Kingussie Cemetery

Force K6 Memorial Kingussie

Son of Ahmed, of Burch Basoa, Gujrat, Pakistan and husband of Fazal Begum, of Burch Basoa. It is understood they had no children. He had the rank of driver which was a mule driver. His death registration gives his date of death as 31st October 1942. His usual residence is given as Kharian, Guliana, Gujrat, Punjab, India. He died from heart failure, while under anesthetic, following shock brought about by multiple injuries and hemorrhage. His cause of death was given by Dr Mitchell, Inverness who made post mortem dissection of the body, the result of a motor lorry accidentally falling on him. His death was registered by a representative of the Indian Medical Department.

It was reported that at the time of his death the company were on a four day march, in poor weather, from Kincraig to winter quarters at Knock, about eight miles from Keith. While marching from Cromdale to Craigellachie a lorry overturned and Driver Mohammad was badly injured.

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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