Port Tewfik Memorial

Infobox Military Memorial
name=Port Tewfik Memorial
country=Egypt


caption=
commemorates=officers and men of the Indian Army killed who gave their lives on the Sinai Peninsula in World War I
unveiled= May 1926 "Destroyed 1956"
coordinates=coord|29.96203|N|32.55819|E|display=inline,title
nearest_town=Suez, Egypt; later relocated to Cairo Heliopolis
designer=John James Burnet, Thomas S. Tait, Charles Sargeant Jagger
inscription=
body=Commonwealth War Graves Commission
established=1926
unveiled=1926, destroyed 1967 & relocated
total=over 4000
unknowns=
commemorated=4000
by_country=India
by_war=*First World War
source= [http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=143800&mode=1 CWGC]

The Port Tewfik Memorial (also known as the Indian War Memorial) was originally situated at Port Tewfik (or Port Taufiq) on the Suez Canal. It was unveiled in May 1926 by for the Imperial War Graves Commission and commemorated 4,000 officers and men of the Indian Army killed during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign during the First World Warcite web
url=http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=143800&mode=1
title=Heliopolis (Port Tewfik) Memorial
accessdate=2007-10-31
author=Commonwealth War Graves Commission] . The original memorial was designed by Scottish architects John James Burnet and Thomas S. Taitcite web
url=http://www.codexgeo.co.uk/dsa/building_full.php?id=M026460
title=Port Tewfik War Memorial
author=
work=Dictionary of Scottish Architects
accessdate=2007-10-31] , and included sculptures by British sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger.

The memorial was destroyed by retreating Egyptian troops during Israeli-Egyptian fighting in 1967, and the memorial was relocated to the Heliopolis War Cemetery on Nabil el Wakkard Street in the Heliopolis district of Cairo. Panels bearing the names of the fallen have been mounted in the entrance pavilions to the War Cemetery.

The modern Heliopolis War Cemetery also contains
*the Aden Memorial, commemorating over 600 men of the Commonwealth forces who died in the defence of Aden during the First World War. The Aden memorial was also destroyed during fighting in 1967.
*over 1,700 graves of British Commonwealth soldiers of the Second World War and a number of war graves of other nationalities.

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External links

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* [http://www.ww1cemeteries.com/othercemeteries/heliopolis_war_cemetery.htm Heliopolis War Cemetery, Cairo, Egypt] - WW1cemeteries.com