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The Denston Cemetery at Srimangal, which is associated with centuries of memory
Location

The location of the centenary memorial cemetery is about 15 km from the town of Srimangal. Inside the James Finlay Tea Company's Denston Tea Garden.

Details

There is no noise anywhere in the cemetery area, which is reminiscent of a century, a quiet silence. James Finlay Tea Company has maintained this symmetry for over a hundred years. After the establishment of a tea garden at Malnichhara in Sylhet in 1854, the British started commercial tea cultivation in Srimangal in 1804. Tea planters arrived here from as far away as Britain. The British and their wives, sons and relatives who died at that time were laid to rest in Denston Cemetery. There are 48 British graves in this cemetery located in the middle of the evergreen tea garden surrounded by hills. According to James Finlay Tea Company, the first British citizen to be buried in this cemetery in the James Dinston Tea Garden was Robert Roybeli. At the age of 36, on August 30, 185, he breathed his last in the Denston Tea Garden. The children William John and David Sahabi died in June 1897 and are buried here. Mary Elizabeth Peter, wife of George William Peter, died on May 16, 1918, and was laid to rest here. George William Peter also passed away on October 2, 1919, one year after his wife's death. He was buried next to his wife's grave in the same grave in the same covering of stone tomb in the silence of Denston Cemetery. Ramsanter died on his way home in July 1897. FDB-U Allan drowned in April 1902. The bodies of the two were not found. To commemorate, their friends built two iconic graves at Denston Cemetery. Edward Wallace died on 20 January 1919 at the Dargaon Tea Garden in Srimangal. This was his 25th birthday. Hunt, a British citizen who contracted cholera in early 1936, is also lying in the cemetery. During the World War of 1939, an American plane crashed while taking off or landing from Shamsernagar Airport in Kamalganj Upazila of Moulvibazar District at Udnachara Tea Garden in Srimangal. The bodies of the two pilots killed in the crash were buried at Denston Cemetery. The U.S. military says a car bomb had exploded at an Iraqi police recruiting center at Kisak, west of Mosul.

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