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Relevant Websites
The website of the Armed Forces Memorial has a Roll of Honour that can be searched for details of
individual service personnel buried in this cemetery.
The War Graves Photographic Project, which is a joint venture with the Commonwealth War Graves
Commission, aims to photograph every Ministry of Defence grave as part of its remit, and therefore can
be searched for details on service personnel buried here.
The Canadian Virtual War Memorial commemorates the individual Canadian soldiers buried in
Dhekelia.
TheGenealogist This subscription-only site contains information previously held on Last Resting Place.
That site had a useful, but occasionally incorrect, index compiled in September 2011 of 854 burials in
this cemetery, without ranks or service details, together with images of individual headstones. There are
actually over 1,080 individuals buried here.
Electronic Burials Register
An electronic spreadsheet with an official index of the 1,082 burials at Dhekelia Military Cemetery up to
the end of 2011 was created by Joshua Lovell in early 2013.33 It contains complete details as inserted in
the Burials Register, including rank and military unit. It is available on request via the Housing Support
& Community Officer (details below). There was one further burial in 2012, that of a 95 year old veteran,
Squadron Leader (retired) William Lott, on 12 November 2012.
Visitors’ Information
The cemetery is permanently open to visitors. There is a Burials Register in the small chapel just within
and to the left of the western entrance. The person in charge of the cemetery is the Housing Support &
Community Officer, Andrew Trinnick, who can be contacted on 00357 2474 4701. Alternatively, one can
contact the Deputy Housing Support & Community Officer, Dhekelia, (WO2 Pete McManus in 2013),
email: BFC-DHK-DHCSO@mod.uk, telephone: 00357 2474 4401.
33 Joshua Lovell was a National Vocation Qualification (NVQ) student attached to the Housing Support and Community
Office.
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