ISMAILIA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Ismailia
Egypt
Location Information
The cemetery is situated less than a kilometre north-west of Ismailia town centre on the Port Said Road. The cemetery is contained within the main Ismailia Civilian Cemetery complex, access to which is via the large iron gates opposite the Bus Station.
Visiting Information
Opening times:
Saturday to Thursday: 7.00am to 2.30pm.
Friday: closed.
The cemetery is kept locked outside of these hours.
Wheelchair access to the site is possible via the main entrance.
Historical Information
Ismailia is a small town on the west side of the Suez Canal. The cemetery was begun in February 1915 following an unsuccessful attack on the town by Turkish forces (this action was later commemorated by the French with a memorial at Gebel Mariam), and continued to be used for burials from camps and hospitals in and around Ismailia and nearby Moascar. After the Armistice, the cemetery was enlarged when graves were brought in from other cemeteries in the area and from isolated sites. In 1956, the adjoining Indian cemetery was absorbed into the War Memorial Cemetery.
There are now 372 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. Second World War burials number 291. The cemetery also contains 297 non war graves, chiefly of servicemen of the garrison and their dependents, mostly dating from the inter war years.
Cemetery pictures used with the permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The cemetery is situated less than a kilometre north-west of Ismailia town centre on the Port Said Road. The cemetery is contained within the main Ismailia Civilian Cemetery complex, access to which is via the large iron gates opposite the Bus Station.
Visiting Information
Opening times:
Saturday to Thursday: 7.00am to 2.30pm.
Friday: closed.
The cemetery is kept locked outside of these hours.
Wheelchair access to the site is possible via the main entrance.
Historical Information
Ismailia is a small town on the west side of the Suez Canal. The cemetery was begun in February 1915 following an unsuccessful attack on the town by Turkish forces (this action was later commemorated by the French with a memorial at Gebel Mariam), and continued to be used for burials from camps and hospitals in and around Ismailia and nearby Moascar. After the Armistice, the cemetery was enlarged when graves were brought in from other cemeteries in the area and from isolated sites. In 1956, the adjoining Indian cemetery was absorbed into the War Memorial Cemetery.
There are now 372 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. Second World War burials number 291. The cemetery also contains 297 non war graves, chiefly of servicemen of the garrison and their dependents, mostly dating from the inter war years.
Cemetery pictures used with the permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
199 Sergeant
Evelyn Frankland
Royal Army Medical Corps 2/2nd E.L.F.A.
Died 1st February 1915, aged 32.
Plot A. 114.
Enlisted in Burnley
Husband of Alice Frankland, of 2, Bayswater Avenue, Roundhay Rd., Leeds.
Evelyn Frankland
Royal Army Medical Corps 2/2nd E.L.F.A.
Died 1st February 1915, aged 32.
Plot A. 114.
Enlisted in Burnley
Husband of Alice Frankland, of 2, Bayswater Avenue, Roundhay Rd., Leeds.
240 Private
Alfred Lorrimer
Royal Army Medical Corps
Died in an accident 1st February 1915, aged 23.
Plot A. 113A.
Son of Thomas and Maria Lorimer, of 12, Berry Lane, Longridge, Preston, Lancs.
(Please note CWGC has surname as Lorimer)
Alfred Lorrimer
Royal Army Medical Corps
Died in an accident 1st February 1915, aged 23.
Plot A. 113A.
Son of Thomas and Maria Lorimer, of 12, Berry Lane, Longridge, Preston, Lancs.
(Please note CWGC has surname as Lorimer)
