Prez Kalam honours Indian World War II martyr’s in Athens
Indian President Dr. Abdul Kalam, who is also the Supreme Commander of Indian Armed Forces,paid rich tributes to the 74 Indian soldiers, who died in the second World War, at the Faleiron War Cemetery, in Athens.
The Indian armymen were accorded the last rite of cremation as required by the Hindu religion. Dr Kalam went round the Faleiron Cremation Memorial which lies within the cemetery.
The soldiers cremated here were part of the Fourth Indian Infantry Division which was in 1944 moved to Italy , where it took part in the Italian Campaign and notably the battles for Monte Cassino, Central Italy and the Gothic Line before being sent to Greece to help stabilise the country after the Axis forces withdrew as part of Operation Manna to prevent the Communist from seizing power in Greece after the German withdrawal.