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Cemetery or Memorial
Number of Casualties

Cyprus (Nicosia) Memorial
58

Famagusta Military Cemetery
20

Limassol Roman Catholic Cemetery
1

Nicosia British Cemetery
3

Nicosia Cremation Memorial
73

Nicosia War Cemetery
213

Polemidia Military Cemetery
7

Troodos Military Cemetery
4

The 379 Cyprus casualty records from both World Wars on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)
website
www.cwgc.org

Thereafter, 2015 will see the 60th anniversary of the start of the Cyprus Emergency of 1955–1959, with

its 371 burials in Wayne’s Keep.

In addition, I feel one should certainly honour those service personnel such as Sapper Brown who died

here on garrison duty, or after evacuation from overseas campaigns, from 1878 onwards:

‘these poor men’s lives had been just as much sacrificed for their country as if they had been killed in
battle’3

A total of 123 British soldiers (and 3 sailors) died in Cyprus between 1878 and 1914, 36 of them in the

latter half of 1878 alone. Among them are 46 soldiers whose graves are now lost. This book serves as their
memorial.

All proceeds from the distribution of this book will be given to the voluntary cemetery committees that
now care for the British cemeteries in Cyprus, especially those containing burials that are outside the

remit of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission or Ministry of Defence, and are therefore more
in need of financial support. I hope this will help sustain and encourage them in their caring for those

who served.

3 Scott-Stevenson, Esme (1880), Our Home in Cyprus (London: Chapman and Hall), p. 45

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