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ALEXANDRIA (CHATBY) MILITARY AND WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

Chatby
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Egypt

Location Information

Chatby is a district on the eastern side of the city of Alexandria, between the main dual carriageway to Aboukir (known as Al Horaya) and the sea. 

The Cemetery is located centrally within the main Alexandria Cemetery complex, which is bordered by Al Horaya on the south and the electric tramway which is parallel with Sharia Champollion on the north. Visitors can reach the entrance to the cemetery along the road Sharia Anubis, which lies centrally north/south through the cemetery area. 

This cemetery has a central front entrance building with a metal gate/grill secured archway leading into it from two small grassed areas which form part of the roadside in front of the cemetery, which is bounded by a rendered wall. 


Visiting Information

The Cemetery is open Saturday to Thursday 0730 to 1430. The cemetery is kept locked outside of these hours. 

For further information and enquiries please contact [email protected] 


Historical Information

Chatby Military and War Memorial Cemetery (originally the Garrison cemetery) was used for burials until April 1916, when a new cemetery was opened at Hadra. Thereafter, burials at Chatby were infrequent, although some graves were brought into the cemetery after the war from other burial grounds in the area.

During the Second World War, Alexandria was again an important hospital centre, taking casualties from campaigns in the Western Desert, Greece, Crete, the Aegean Islands and the Mediterranean. Rest camps and hostels were also established there together with a powerful anti-aircraft base. Alexandria was also the communications centre for the middle and near east and became the headquarters of the Military Police.  

There are now 2,259 First World War burials in the cemetery and 503 from the Second World War. The cemetery also contains war graves of other nationalities and many non war and military graves, some of which date from 1882.

The CHATBY MEMORIAL stands at the eastern end of the cemetery and commemorates almost 1,000 Commonwealth servicemen who died during the First World War and have no other grave but the sea. Many of them were lost when hospital ships or transports were sunk in the Mediterranean, sailing to or from Alexandria. Others died of wounds or sickness while aboard such vessels and were buried at sea.

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2657 Private
 Arthur Allen
1/5th East Lancashire Regiment
Died of Dysentry 9th August 1915, aged 29.

Row J. 125.

Lived at 2 Hartley Street, Burnley, Lancashire.

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2582 Private 
James Anyon
1/5th East Lancashire Regiment
Died of Wounds 6th March 1916, 
aged 26.
Row E. 46.


Husband of Elizabeth Anyon, of 9, Hartington St., Brierfield.

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228 Private 
James Robert Blakey
1st Australian Army
Died of Wounds 2nd May 1915, 
aged 23.
Row C. 163.


Son of John Henry and Margaret Ann Blakey, of 17, Hollingreave Rd., Burnley, England.

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T2/12838 Driver 
Thomas William Boak
Army Service Corps 29th Res Park
Died 22nd August 1915, 
aged 36.
Row K. 70.


Husband of B. Boak, of 70, Calder Vale Rd., Burnley. Born at Penrith.

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17891 Private
James William Broadley
9th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
10th October 1915, aged 18.
Row D. 109.

Son of Charles Henry and Lucy Broadley, of Reins Cottage, Honley, Huddersfield. Born at Cleckheaton.

Picture and article courtesy of Gordon Hodgson


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236 Private
Walter Burgin
2nd Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
21st May 1915.
Row M. 145.

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6135 Private 
John Burke
6th East Lancashire Regiment
26th August 1915, aged 35.

Row J. 35.


Son of Patrick and Mary Burke. Born at Burnley. Formerly lived at 3 Shaw Street, later in South Africa

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837 Private 
Joseph Hilton Cumberland
 2nd Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
5th May 1915, aged 21.
Row C. 173.


Died of wounds received at Gallipoli, brother of Oliver  who is buried at Lone Pine Cemetery, Anzac

Son of the late George A. and Sarah Cumberland. Born at Scone, New South Wales. 

Picture courtesy of Harry Willey

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1470 Lance/Corporal
 Richard Eddlestone
1/5th Bn. East Lancashire Regiment
13th November 1915, aged 21.

Row A.11.

Lived at 37 Red Lion Street, Burnley, Lancashire.

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Second Lieutenant
Edward Roland Egan
2nd Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
14th August 1915.
Row Q. 487.


Son of Thomas and Sarah Ann Egan, of Kempsey, New South Wales. Born at Tenterfield, New South Wales.

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2099 Private
 Hartley Rushton
1/5th Bn. East Lancashire Regiment
Died 15th July 1915.

Row M.8.

Lived at Nickles Street, Colne, Lancashire, 
enlisted Burnley.

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9851 Private 
Archie Stacey
1st Bn. Border Regiment
13th May 1915, aged 24.

Row H. 86.

Lived on Hargher Street, Burnley, Lancashire.

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5612 Private
Andrew Christopher Thompson
Australian Army Service Corps, 4th A. S. Coy
Died of wounds 13th December 1915, aged 19.
Plot G. 1.

Son of W. D. and Rosetta Thompson, of Kent St., Hawthorn, South Australia. Born at Nangkita.

Remembered by Cass Angus (nee Thompson)

Shot at Dawn

494 Private N. Matthews, 3rd Regiment, South African Infantry, executed for murder on 3rd April 1916. Plot C. 3.

He was en route for France, & was tried & hanged in Egypt. (Putkowski, p. 59).

Even though he was serving in the South African Army, he was to be the only Australian to be executed. He was also the only soldier in WW1 who was hanged for his crime, and not executed by firing squad. More information on "Shot at Dawn" burials by clicking here.
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The above image, courtesy of Tony Emptage at "Shot at Dawn" photos. More information can be found on "Shot at Dawn burials" by clicking here


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