Basra Concept
Basra circa 1952 - a beautiful memorial park
Today - a waste ground with wild dogs and a magnet for nighttime criminal behaviour
Tomorrow - a Peace Park fittingly commemorating the men and women buried here and an asset for the entire community
Basra War Cemetery Gatehouses
Today - a deteriorating building used as a urinal by passing motorists
Tomorrow - a start on what could become a fitting memorial to those buried here and an asset to the community
Community Engagement Concept - Basra War Cemetery
From antagonism with the local neighbourhoods to embracing them as partners in the community.
Basra Indian Forces Peace Park and Memorial Wall Concept
Today - an unsightly mess dishonoring the men who died in service
Tomorrow - a Peace Park honouring the fallen and an asset to the community with memorial panels for those Indian soldiers not mentioned on the Basra Memorial
WW2 Cremation Memorial
1950s - a well-maintained memorial site
November 8th - years of accumulated rubbish and overgrowth
November 9th - long needed clearance
After clearance - the monuments revealed
Tomorrow - a fitting memorial to the 1,032 Indian Army Casualties memorialised here
Basra Memorial Concept
Today - a crumbling desolate monument, barely known and rarely visited
Tomorrow - a monument on a par with Menin Gate
Alwiya Indian War Cemetery Concept
Today - an unsightly mess in a rapidly developing area
Tomorrow - a Peace Park honouring the fallen and an asset to the community
