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According to ‘The Levantine Heritage’ website, the Braggiotti family was originally a noble Venetian 
family that moved to Milan and then on to Chios by 1500.23 The family left Chios about 1800, with 

branches moving to Smyrna (where the family had the largest cotton mills by 1893) and Constantinople. 
One branch probably came from Smyrna to Cyprus in 1878, when many enterprising merchantmen 

came over from there in the hope of finding profitable business among the newly arrived British troops.































The Braggiotti family coat of arms




First World War burials






Grave / 
Name
Rank
Service Date of Death
Age
Regiment / Memorial 
Number
Service
Reference

Cope, H
Foreman
30/08/1916
Civilian
63


Divers, Hugh
Private
28172
07/06/1916
Royal Scots
62

Docherty, James
Private
28710
22/08/1918
Royal Scots
64


The Troodos Cemetery First World War casualty records listed on the 
CWGC website

Further examination of these three individual casualty records reveals that Privates Hugh Divers and 

James Docherty had been members of the 1st Garrison Battalion Royal Scots, whose main task in 

Cyprus was guarding some 1300 Turkish prisoners of war in Famagusta.


Ten of their colleagues are buried in Famagusta Military Cemetery, and one in Nicosia British Cemetery. 
Further details of the battalion are given in the Famagusta section of this book. It is likely that Private 

Docherty, who died in August 1918, died of influenza, as did many of his colleagues now buried in 
Famagusta.




23 Levantine Heritage – the story of a community. www.levantineheritage.com/testi53.htm



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