Drass War Memorial, Dras, Jammu & Kashmir India

Drass War Memorial is one more destination to be added in your itinerary while visiting Kashmir. It gives you a grim reminder of what happened in the Drass region in the last year of the previous millennium.

This war memorial brings back the memories of the sacrifices of our officers and soldiers during the war. If someone travels by road, he is reminded that this is the place where young men sacrificed their lives in line of duty.

In May 1999, the army mobilised its infantry battalions, which were engaged in counter-insurgency operations in Kashmir Valley, and its heavy artillery, including Bofors guns and moved them 150 km from Srinagar through potholed dusty roads which snake through hundreds of Himalayan mountains.

It was the war for Kargil, to save Ladakh from being cut-off from the Kashmir division as Pakistani forces, which included officers and soldiers from its Northern Light Infantry, commandos from Special Services Group and militants from a spectrum of groups, had barricaded themselves in the fortified bunkers in the upper mountain reaches on this side of the Line of Control.

A lot of people come here every day, they pay their tributes to the officers and soldiers of Kargil war.