During the Great War, many Indian soldiers were treated for their injuries in Brighton.

Those Sikh and Hindu soldiers who did not survive were cremated on the Downs above the town.

In 1921 a memorial to these soldiers, built on the spot where the funeral pyre had been, was unveiled by the Prince of Wales.

The memorial, now known as the Chattri, can be seen from parts of the town. It stands as a reminder to the part that was played and the sacrifice that was made by soldiers of the Empire in World War I.