31/05/2026
Hidden Tomb of Raja Mohammad Baqir Khan (1901-1923), younger brother of PA-1 Major General Mohammad Akbar Khan, at the Ascension Parish Burial Ground in Cambridge, England.
A law student from Chakwal, Baqir was an undergraduate at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, when he was killed in a motorcycle accident. The funeral took place at St Giles’s Cemetery, conducted by the Imam of the Woking Mosque also known as The Shah Jahan Mosque on Oriental Road, Woking, England, the first purpose-built mosque in the United Kingdom, built in 1889.
"Practically all of the Indian students at the University, numbering over 150, were present. Wreaths included one from the Cambridge Muslim Association. His family’s ancestral lands had been expropriated by the British after the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
He was one of thirteen children, six of whom served in the British Indian army, three becoming major-generals and three brigadier-generals, one of them the first Muslim major-general in the British army. The large stone sarcophagus, unique in the Ascension, has a quotation from the Qur’an."
"IN MEMORY OF RAJA MOHD BAQIR KHAN
BORN 16TH DEC. 1901. DIED 1ST MARCH 1923.
FROM CHAKWAL, PUNJAB, INDIA
WHO CAME TO THIS COUNTRY TO PURSUE HIS STUDIES AT ST CATHARINES COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE"
