Located on the outskirts of the small village of Neuve-Chapelle in France, stands the Neuve-Chapelle Memorial. It commemorates more than 4,700 Indian soldiers and labourers who lost their lives on the Western Front during the First World War and have no known grave. The location of the memorial was specially chosen as it was at Neuve-Chapelle in March 1915 that the Indian Corps fought its first major action as a single unit. The memorial commemorates more than 4,700 Indian soldiers and labourers who lost their lives on the Western Front during the First World War and have no known graves. The memorial was unveiled on 7 October 1927, by the Earl of Birkenhead. Lord Birkenhead (Frederick Edwin Smith), then Secretary of State for India, had served as a staff officer with the Indian Corps during the war. The ceremony was also attended by Sir Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, the Maharaja of Karputhala, Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Rudyard Kipling, and a large contingent of Indian veterans. This site also contains the Neuve-Chapelle 1939-1945 Cremation Memorial. In 1964, the remains of eight Indian soldiers, including two unidentified, were exhumed from Sarrebourg French Military Cemetery Extension and cremated. The names of the six identified soldiers are engraved on panels at the Neuve-Chapelle Memorial along with the following inscription: 1939 - 1945 IN HONOUR OF THESE SOLDIERS WHO DIED IN CAPTIVITY IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE AND WHOSE MORTAL REMAINS WERE COMMITTED TO FIRE Thirty-nine members of the 1914-1918 Indian Forces commemorated here were cremated at Patcham Down, Sussex. In 2010, their point of commemoration was transferred back to Patcham Down when a new memorial was unveiled there.