TA-BRAXIA CEMETERY
Pietà
Malta
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 35.8902, Longitude: 14.49899
Location Information
This is a civil burial ground on the south-eastern side of Pieta Military Cemetery. Pieta is the name of a village and a creek at the head of Marsamuscetto Harbour, near the base of the peninsular on which Valletta stands. The cemetery is 2 kilometres from Valletta and is approached by the main road running north-west to Sliema. Where this turns towards the head of Pieta creek it leaves, on the left hand side, the cemeteries of Ta-Braxia and Pieta. At the bottom of Ta-Braxia Cemetery there is a sign post indicating Pieta Cemetery at the beginning of the street "Triq id Duluri" (Our Lady of Sorrows Street). Cemetery address: Ta Braxia Cemetery, Pieta.
Visiting Information
The cemetery is open Monday to Friday from 8:00am to 12.00pm and 1.00pm to 4.00pm.
Historical Information
From the spring of 1915, the hospitals and convalescent depots established on the islands of Malta and Gozo dealt with over 135,000 sick and wounded, chiefly from the campaigns in Gallipoli and Salonika, although increased submarine activity in the Mediterranean meant that fewer hospital ships were sent to the island from May 1917.
During the Second World War, Malta's position in the Mediterranean was of enormous Allied strategic importance. Heavily fortified, the island was never invaded, but was subjected to continual bombardment and blockade between Italy's entry into the war in June 1940 and the Axis defeat at El Alamein in November 1942. At the height of Axis attempts to break Malta's resistance in April 1942, the island and her people were awarded the George Cross by King George VI.
Malta's defence relied upon a combined operation in which the contributions made by the three branches of the armed forces and Merchant Navy were equally crucial. Although heavily pressed in defence, offensive raids launched from the island by air and sea had a crippling effect on the Axis lines of communication with North Africa, and played a vital part in the eventual Allied success there.
Ta-Braxia Cemetery contains five Commonwealth burials of the First World War and three from the Second World War.
World War One Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 5.
World War Two Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 3.
This is a civil burial ground on the south-eastern side of Pieta Military Cemetery. Pieta is the name of a village and a creek at the head of Marsamuscetto Harbour, near the base of the peninsular on which Valletta stands. The cemetery is 2 kilometres from Valletta and is approached by the main road running north-west to Sliema. Where this turns towards the head of Pieta creek it leaves, on the left hand side, the cemeteries of Ta-Braxia and Pieta. At the bottom of Ta-Braxia Cemetery there is a sign post indicating Pieta Cemetery at the beginning of the street "Triq id Duluri" (Our Lady of Sorrows Street). Cemetery address: Ta Braxia Cemetery, Pieta.
Visiting Information
The cemetery is open Monday to Friday from 8:00am to 12.00pm and 1.00pm to 4.00pm.
Historical Information
From the spring of 1915, the hospitals and convalescent depots established on the islands of Malta and Gozo dealt with over 135,000 sick and wounded, chiefly from the campaigns in Gallipoli and Salonika, although increased submarine activity in the Mediterranean meant that fewer hospital ships were sent to the island from May 1917.
During the Second World War, Malta's position in the Mediterranean was of enormous Allied strategic importance. Heavily fortified, the island was never invaded, but was subjected to continual bombardment and blockade between Italy's entry into the war in June 1940 and the Axis defeat at El Alamein in November 1942. At the height of Axis attempts to break Malta's resistance in April 1942, the island and her people were awarded the George Cross by King George VI.
Malta's defence relied upon a combined operation in which the contributions made by the three branches of the armed forces and Merchant Navy were equally crucial. Although heavily pressed in defence, offensive raids launched from the island by air and sea had a crippling effect on the Axis lines of communication with North Africa, and played a vital part in the eventual Allied success there.
Ta-Braxia Cemetery contains five Commonwealth burials of the First World War and three from the Second World War.
World War One Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 5.
World War Two Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 3.
Midshipman
Edward Macdonald Hay Chapman
Royal Naval Reserve
29th November 1919, aged 18.
Div. 23. Grave 11.
Son of the Rev. J. Chapman, of St. Paul's Vicarage, Sale, Cheshire.
His headstone bears the inscription "A Choice Young Man And A Goodly" 1. Sam IX. 2."
Edward Macdonald Hay Chapman
Royal Naval Reserve
29th November 1919, aged 18.
Div. 23. Grave 11.
Son of the Rev. J. Chapman, of St. Paul's Vicarage, Sale, Cheshire.
His headstone bears the inscription "A Choice Young Man And A Goodly" 1. Sam IX. 2."
Admiral Herbert Lyon, Companion of the Bath, Royal Navy, 15th March 1919.
3rd Class Order of Merit (Spain); 2nd and 3rd Class Orders of the Nichau-Imtiaz (Turkey); Collar Order of Commander of the Order of Redeemer (Greece). Son of A. W. Lyon, J.P., of Abbotsclownholme, Rocester, Stafford; husband of Frances Violet Lyon (nee Inglis), of Stoke Cottage, Stoke, Devonport. Educated at Windle sham House, Brighton and the Rev. H. Burney's, Royal Academy, Gosport. Served in Charybdis in the Lingi and Lukut River Expeditions, Straits of Malacca and Perak; in Zulu War; as Captain of Retribution, at the blockade of Venezuela, and as Commodore at Hong Kong. Returned to active service afloat during the Great War as Captain, R.N.R., H.M. Yacht Safa el Bahr, on Patrol duty in the Mediterranean and later as Commodore, R.N.R., of Patrols at Malta. His son, Lieut. Comdr. H. I. N. Lyon, R.N., also fell in the Great War.
Images below © Geerhard Joos
3rd Class Order of Merit (Spain); 2nd and 3rd Class Orders of the Nichau-Imtiaz (Turkey); Collar Order of Commander of the Order of Redeemer (Greece). Son of A. W. Lyon, J.P., of Abbotsclownholme, Rocester, Stafford; husband of Frances Violet Lyon (nee Inglis), of Stoke Cottage, Stoke, Devonport. Educated at Windle sham House, Brighton and the Rev. H. Burney's, Royal Academy, Gosport. Served in Charybdis in the Lingi and Lukut River Expeditions, Straits of Malacca and Perak; in Zulu War; as Captain of Retribution, at the blockade of Venezuela, and as Commodore at Hong Kong. Returned to active service afloat during the Great War as Captain, R.N.R., H.M. Yacht Safa el Bahr, on Patrol duty in the Mediterranean and later as Commodore, R.N.R., of Patrols at Malta. His son, Lieut. Comdr. H. I. N. Lyon, R.N., also fell in the Great War.
Images below © Geerhard Joos
Lieutenant
William Wynter Peache, D. S. O.
Royal Engineers
3rd December 1914, aged 24.
Plot IV. 27.
Son of James Courthope Peache and Marion Agnes Peache (nee Gibbon), of Thorpe, Haywards Heath, Sussex. Born at Thames Ditton, Surrey.
William Wynter Peache, D. S. O.
Royal Engineers
3rd December 1914, aged 24.
Plot IV. 27.
Son of James Courthope Peache and Marion Agnes Peache (nee Gibbon), of Thorpe, Haywards Heath, Sussex. Born at Thames Ditton, Surrey.
Captain
Eric Seymour Stephenson, D. S. O. & Mentioned in Despatches
Gloucestershire Regiment, attached as Landing Staff Officer To Sit Ian Hamilton's Staff"
6th May 1915, aged 36.
Son of Charlotte Seymour Sclater (formerly Stephenson) and the late Percy Stephenson. Served in the South African War. Attached for many years to the Egyptian Army.
Eric Seymour Stephenson, D. S. O. & Mentioned in Despatches
Gloucestershire Regiment, attached as Landing Staff Officer To Sit Ian Hamilton's Staff"
6th May 1915, aged 36.
Son of Charlotte Seymour Sclater (formerly Stephenson) and the late Percy Stephenson. Served in the South African War. Attached for many years to the Egyptian Army.
Other World War One Burial
L/3289 Officer's Steward 2nd Class P. A. Nazani, H. M. S. Imogene, Royal Navy, died 27th March 1917.
World War Two Burials:
Chief Steward William John Smith, S. S. Princess Kathleen Merchant Navy, died 15th April 1943, aged 53. Div 2. Grave 25. Husband of Dorothy Ann Smith, of Knotty Ash, Liverpool. His headstone bears the inscription " Until We Meet Again, Dearest, Always In Our Thoughts. Doll, Ken, Bunt And Sunshine"
Able Seaman J. Warrack, S. S. Essex (London), Merchant Navy, died 3rd February 1941, aged 27. Div 9. Grave 32. Son of William and Helen Warrack, of Kenilworth, Warwickshire.
Able Seaman Clarence Richard Williams, S. S. Don, Merchant Navy, died 17th May 1945, aged 51. Div. 6. Joint Grave 8. Son of Richard and Selina Williams, of Goole, Yorkshire. His headstone bears the inscription In Ever Loving Memory Of A Dear Son And Brother "They Shall Not Grow Old"
L/3289 Officer's Steward 2nd Class P. A. Nazani, H. M. S. Imogene, Royal Navy, died 27th March 1917.
World War Two Burials:
Chief Steward William John Smith, S. S. Princess Kathleen Merchant Navy, died 15th April 1943, aged 53. Div 2. Grave 25. Husband of Dorothy Ann Smith, of Knotty Ash, Liverpool. His headstone bears the inscription " Until We Meet Again, Dearest, Always In Our Thoughts. Doll, Ken, Bunt And Sunshine"
Able Seaman J. Warrack, S. S. Essex (London), Merchant Navy, died 3rd February 1941, aged 27. Div 9. Grave 32. Son of William and Helen Warrack, of Kenilworth, Warwickshire.
Able Seaman Clarence Richard Williams, S. S. Don, Merchant Navy, died 17th May 1945, aged 51. Div. 6. Joint Grave 8. Son of Richard and Selina Williams, of Goole, Yorkshire. His headstone bears the inscription In Ever Loving Memory Of A Dear Son And Brother "They Shall Not Grow Old"
