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By whom the

Name
Abode
When buried
Age
ceremony was
performed

John Dickenson
Quartermaster

(?), Sergeant Ronald McLeod,
6230 Limassol
8 May 1882
36 years & 209 Chaplain to HM
days
Supernumerary forces on Probate
Staff Royal

Engineers

The only Greek cemetery in use in Limassol at the time of Sergeant Dickenson’s death was the one
dedicated to Saint Nicholas. The author visited this cemetery in April 2013 but was unable to identify

Sergeant Dickenson’s grave. There are several other old British graves there dating back to 1879. None of
them are identifiably of servicemen, though one from 1880 is of the daughter of a soldier from the 35th

Royal Sussex Regiment. They are buried in the oldest section of the cemetery, near a stone storage room,
about 30 metres within and to the left of the entrance shown in the photo below.

The Muster Books record that two other Royal Engineers died in Limassol in 1879, and another in

Polemidia the same year. Their graves are now lost – could they too have been buried in this cemetery,
alongside the other British graves from the same period?

The old entrance (at left) to St Nicholas Cemetery, Limassol

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