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Additional
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Son of
William Henry and Cathrine Lee, of Wheatley Hill, Co. Durham. |
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Memorial:
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ALAMEIN
MEMORIAL, Egypt |
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Grave
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Column
54. |
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Location:
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The Alamein Memorial forms the entrance to the El
Alamein War Cemetery. Alamein is a village, bypassed by the main coast road,
approximately 130 kilometres west of Alexandria on the road to Mersa Matruh.
The first Commission road direction sign is located just beyond the Alamein
police checkpoint and all cemetery visitors should turn off from the main
road onto the parallel old coast road. The cemetery lies off the road beyond
the ridge, and road direction signs are in place approximately 25 metres
before the low metal gates and stone wing walls which are situated centrally
at the road edge at the head of the access path into the cemetery. The Cross
of Sacrifice feature may be seen from the road. The Alamein Memorial Land
Forces panels commemorate the soldiers of the British Commonwealth and Empire
who fell in the campaigns in Egypt and Libya, and in the operations of the
Eighth Army in Tunisia up to 19th February 1943, who have no known grave. It
also commemorates those who served and fell in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and
Persia. The Alamein Memorial Air Forces panels commemorate the airmen of the
Commonwealth who fell 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. Those who
served with the Rhodesian and South African Air Training Scheme and have no
known grave are also honoured here. Also within El Alamein War Cemetery, in
the south-eastern part, will be found the Alamein Cremation Memorial. |
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Historical
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The
Alamein Memorial commemorates 11868, 1939-1945 war casualties. |