From the Boss: Some 6 or 8 weeks back, I looked out of the bedroom window one morning and noticed a strange, white blob in the grounds of the Chattri, the memorial on the Downs behind Brighton to the Indian soldiers who died in hospital in Brighton during the First World War. I was unable to make out what this newcomer was and it was only in the middle of last month, when it was dedicated, that I learned it is a memorial stone with the names of those soldiers engraved in it. Apparently, those names were lost after the war and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission has only recently discovered them. So now they are recorded for posterity - albeit almost 100 years late.
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