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

HELMS, William Bloomfield

Service number 1193
Trooper
8th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1

SWEETING, Archibald Lee

Service number 1046
Trooper
10th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1

BARCLAY, David

Service number 801
Trooper
3rd Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 1887

POTTER, John Daniel

Service number 727
Lance Corporal
3rd Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 1884

MARSHALL, James David

Service number 2000
Trooper
8th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1

ROGERS, Ernest Arthur

Service number 932
Sergeant
3rd Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 6 Dec 1890

RANFORD, Joseph Marmion

Service number 183
Sergeant
3rd Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 17 Oct 1882

BINGHAM, Owen Ernest Hugh

Service number 373
Sergeant
3rd Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 1891

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