Travel to Burma / Myanmar: Moulmein 6: British Tombstones

British cemeteries across the Asian Rim are lonely places, but few are as decayed--almost impassible--as the main one in Moulmein, west of the ridge and south of the prison. Without a machete, you can only approach a few of the tombstones.

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The main gate. No signs. Happy hunting if you want to find it.

With a bit of bushwhacking, this stone emerged.

Cholera? A daughter dies at 18, and her mother follows ten days later.

If South Asia wasn't the "white man's grave," it came pretty close for a while.

An American missionary daughter buried next to her parents' church at the corner of Boho Street and Dawei Jetty road--formerly Dalhousie Road and Mission