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A crucial task in cemetery restoration is to secure the boundary walls of the site, and BACSA has made a number of grants for work of this kind. At the Agra Cantonment Cemetery where every existing grave has been painstakingly recorded, money was allocated in a phased programme to restore and heighten the cemetery walls - see conservation page on left for photographs.
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 Jhansi cemetery gatehouse
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At Jhansi where the cemetery was in a desolate condition, a BACSA grant was put towards restoring the Gothic gatehouse, clearing the undergrowth, delineating paths and cleaning tombs.
BACSA has a number of other current projects, concerned with the equally important task of recording the cemeteries and those that lie within them (See Transcriptions page on the left for examples of our Record Books). An ongoing concern is to ensure that visitors abroad can actually locate the cemeteries where their ancestors are buried. Most travellers have had the frustrating experience of not being able to find a particular cemetery, and even more frustratingly, not being able to convey to locals what they are looking for. BACSA has a growing collection of maps or written directions showing how to locate a cemetery. To find out whether we hold the map you need, contact Mrs Hywel-Jones, 37 Gowan Avenue, London, SW6 6RH.
Over the last thirty years, BACSA has published, or reprinted, over forty Cemetery Record Books. We have also published BACSA Books written by our members, offering fresh insight into the social, military, business and administrative life of Europeans in the East.
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Jhansi Cantonment Cemetery