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Commonwealth Memorial of the Missing El Alamein

(Egypt - El Alamein)

The El Alamein Memorial forms the entrance to the El Alamein War Cemetery. There are 11,868 names on it. The Land Forces panels commemorate more than 8,500 soldiers of the Commonwealth who died in the campaigns in Egypt and Libya, and in the operations of the Eighth Army in Tunisia up to 19 February 1943, who have no known grave. It also commemorates those who served and died in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Persia. The Air Forces panels commemorate more than 3,000 airmen of the Commonwealth who died in the campaigns in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Greece, Crete and the Aegean, Ethiopia, Eritrea and the Somalilands, the Sudan, East Africa, Aden and Madagascar, who have no known grave.

Source

• Text: Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• Photos: Commonwealth War Graves Commission