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The Victoria Cross Grave
This cemetery’s major claim to fame is the presence of the grave of the only Victoria Cross
recipient to have died in Cyprus, with its connection to the very first day (22 July 1878) that
British soldiers landed in Cyprus (though the Royal Navy and Marines got there before them!).
The Victoria Cross engraved on the sarcophagus of Sergeant Samuel McGaw in The Old British Cemetery, Kyrenia
The sarcophagus containing the remains of Sergeant Samuel McGaw VC
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