Kantara War Memorial Cemetery

Cemetery Details

Location Kantara, Al Qantara, Egypt
Co‑ordinates N30.8717466, E32.3320784
Description

This is an extract of the Kantara Cemetery page from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission web page for Kantara (www.cwgc.org).

 

Kantara War Memorial Cemetery is situated at Kantara East on the eastern side of the Suez Canal, 160 kilometres north-east of Cairo and 50 kilometres south of Port Said.

In the early part of the First World War, Kantara was an important point in the defence of Suez against Turkish attacks and marked the starting point of the new railway east towards Sinai and Palestine, begun in January 1916. Kantara developed into a major base and hospital centre and the cemetery was begun in February 1916 for burials from the various hospitals, continuing in use until late 1920. After the Armistice, the cemetery was more than doubled in size when graves were brought in from other cemeteries and desert battlefields, notably those at Rumani, Qatia, El Arish and Rafa.

KANTARA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY now contains 1,562 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 110 from the Second World War. There are also 341 war graves of other nationalities in the cemetery, many of them made from the Polish hospital and concentrated in a distinct Polish extension.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

 

Posted by Julianne T Ryan.  August 2014.  Lest we forget.

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Names

Showing 8 people of interest from cemetery

MACDONALD, Ronald Alexander Leslie

Service number 462
Lieutenant
1st Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 23 May 1889

INGLIS, Fred

Service number 4651
Sergeant
3rd Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 26 Jul 1887

ANDERSON, Raymond Keith

Service number WX3
Lieutenant Colonel
Born 22 Jun 1901

MOORE, Charles Francis Fitzgerald

Service number OFFICER
Captain
Unspecified Indian Army Units
Other Commonwealth Forces
Born 1886

SMITH, George Achilles

Service number OFFICER
Captain
3 Battalion Imperial Camel Corps
AIF WW1
Born 4 May 1882

NOBBS, George Rawdon Ffrench

Service number 659
Trooper
1st Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 5 Sep 1895

HELMS, William Bloomfield

Service number 1193
Trooper
8th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1

DAVIS, Perry Thomas

Service number 760
Private
11th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 30 Nov 1894

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