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 Chatby Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Alexandria, Egypt


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Latitude: 31.20607, Longitude: 29.91599 | Click to get directions to Chatby Military and War Memorial Cemetery

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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.




All Burials

 #   Last Name, Given Name(s)   Buried   Person ID   Tree 
1. Cox, Edward John M.S.M.   bur. Aft 10 Aug 1915 Chatby Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Alexandria, Egypt Find all individuals with events at this location I21874 Mitchell Families