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The most senior serving Royal Engineer buried in Cyprus, and the most senior officer buried in Wayne’s
Keep cemetery, is Colonel Bob Hatch OBE, buried at Wayne’s Keep, in Plot 15, Row C, grave 3.
Non-War Graves
These are spread between four cemeteries
in all. There are five burials of serving Royal
Engineers at Troodos, all from 1879. There are
two burials at Nicosia British Cemetery. There
are 36 Royal Engineers buried at Wayne’s Keep
– the first being Sapper Brown from 1879,
and the remaining 35 from the ten year span
1949 to 1959 (starting with Lance Corporal
Leonard William Langford, died 7 June 1949,
and ending with Sergeant John Duffy, died 16
January 1959). There are 50 Royal Engineers
(serving and retired) buried at Dhekelia Military
Cemetery (up to the end of 2012).9
Memorial at St Barnabas Church, Dhekelia10
9 Information obtained from Dhekelia Military Cemetery Burials Register, April 2013.
10 St Barnabas, companion to St Paul on his first missionary journey, was born in Cyprus and is buried near Salamis. He is
the patron saint of Cyprus, as well as patron saint of the Corps of Royal Engineers, the Royal Artillery, and firefighters.
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