Cairo War Memorial Cemetery

Cemetery Details

Location Al Seka Hadid, Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
Co‑ordinates N30.01438, E31.23075
Description

Location Information
This cemetery is within the Old Cairo cemetery area, which is situated approximately 5 kilometres south east of the centre of Cairo. The cemetery area is on the south side of the road Salah Salem, which runs west/east from the River Nile towards the green park area approximately 2 kilometres beyond and eventually towards the Citadel. The cemetery is surrounded by a high wall and the double entrance gates are along Sharia Abu Safein. This road is parallel with the railway line which runs south from Cairo main station and both railway and Sharia Abu Safein cross over the main road. Access up to Sharia Abu Safein is by using the northside ramp above the main road underpass, on the east side of the railway.

History Information
At the outbreak of the First World War, Cairo was headquarters to the United Kingdom garrison in Egypt. With Alexandria, it became the main hospital centre for Gallipoli in 1915 and later dealt with the sick and wounded from operations in Egypt and Palestine.

General Headquarters, Middle East Command, was set up in Cairo shortly before the Second World War, remaining there throughout the war years. In January 1941, a Royal Air Force Sector Headquarters for Fighter Defence Canal Zone was established.
Cairo was again a significant hospital centre during the Second World War.

Cairo War Memorial Cemetery was formerly part of the New British Protestant Cemetery, but plots B, D, F, H, K, M, O, P and Q were ceded to the Commission in 1920. Some graves were brought into these plots from elsewhere in the Protestant cemetery and in 1960, 85 First World War graves were concentrated from Minia War Cemetery, 200 km south of Cairo, where maintenance could not be assured. One burial of the Second World War was also moved later from Old Cairo Old Latin Cemetery for the same reason.

There are now 2,056 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War and 340 from the Second World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. A small number, known to have been buried in other civil cemeteries in Cairo but whose graves are now lost, are commemorated by special memorial.

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BENNETT, Roy

Service number 365
Trooper
10th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 1891

JOHNSTON, Arthur John

Service number 2189
Trooper
3rd Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 13 Jun 1880

PATTISON, Walter Byron James

Service number OFFICER
Lieutenant
9th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1 May 1888

MADDOCKS, Charles Frederick

Service number 957
Private
Born 1895

MACARTHUR, Guy Darcy Davney

Service number OFFICER
Lieutenant
13th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 25 Sep 1893

PETER, Campbell McDiarmid

Service number 855
Colour Sergeant
8th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1 Jul 1894

DEMPSEY, John

Service number CHAPLAIN
Captain (Chaplain 4th Class)
Australian Army Chaplains' Department
AIF WW1
Born 2 Jun 1881

NAPPER, Charles Leslie

Service number 765
Private
13th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1890

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