Additional Information: | Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Theaker, of Staveley, Derbyshire. |
Memorial: | ALAMEIN MEMORIAL, Egypt |
Grave Reference/ Panel Number: |
Column 12. |
Location: | The Alamein Memorial forms the entrance to the
El Alamein War Cemetery. Alamein is a village, bypassed by the main coast
road, approximately 130 kilometres west of Alexandria on the road to Mersa
Matruh. The first Commission road direction sign is located just beyond
the Alamein police checkpoint and all cemetery visitors should turn off
from the main road onto the parallel old coast road. The cemetery lies off
the road beyond the ridge, and road direction signs are in place
approximately 25 metres before the low metal gates and stone wing walls
which are situated centrally at the road edge at the head of the access
path into the cemetery. The Cross of Sacrifice feature may be seen from
the road. Within the south-eastern part of the cemetery will be found the
Alamein Cremation Memorial. |
Historical Information: | The Alamein Memorial Land Forces panels commemorate the soldiers of the British Commonwealth and Empire who fell in the campaigns in Egypt and Libya, and in the operations of the Eighth Army in Tunisia up to 19th february 1943 - the date when it came under the command of General Eisenhower - and who have no known grave. It also commemorates those who served and fell in Syria and Lebanon, Iraq and Persia. The Alamein Memorial Air Forces panels commemorate the airmen of the Commonwealth who fell in the campaigns in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Greece, Crete and the Aegean, Ethiopia, Eritrea and the Somalilands, the Sudan, East Africa, Aden and Madagascar and who have no known grave. Those who served with the Rhodesian and South African Air Training Scheme and have no known grave are also honoured here. The Alamein Memorial commemorates nearly 12,000 Second World War casualties. |