British cemetery in Kandahar, 1881

European cemetery ; graves of British soldiers (who died fighting the Afghans) in Kandahar, Afghanistan, 1880 (c). 

Photo taken by Benjamin Simpson during British occupation of Kandahar, which lasted from September 1880 to April 1881. 

Only commissioned and non-commissioned officers of British-army were buried in this cemetery. Ordinary British soldiers were buried in mass graves. Kandaharis did not desecrate the graves of British after the British occupation forces left Kandahar in April 1881. Captain A.C.Yate who visited Kandahar in 1887 reported that the British cemetery there had been treated with every respect by the locals.