Cemetery: |
EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY, Egypt |
Grave Reference/ Panel Number:
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V. B. 1.
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Location: |
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 visitors should turn off from
the main road onto the parallel old coast road. The cemetery lies off the
road, slightly beyond a ridge, and is indicated by road direction signs
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 cemetery will be found the Alamein Memorial, through
which the access path to the cemetery passes, and the Alamein Cremation
Memorial which will be found in the south-eastern part of the cemetery.
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Historical Information: |
The El Alamein War cemetery contains the graves
of men who died at all stages of the western desert campaigns, brought in
from a wide area round about, but especially those who died in the Battle
of El Alamein at the end of October, 1942 and in the period immediately
before that. There are over 7,000 war casualties commemorated in this
cemetery. |