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The Solitary Second World War Grave
Corporal William Leonard Mackman was a Motor Transport fitter with 17 Workshop Unit, Royal Air
Force and sustained serious injuries in a motor accident on 26 September 1942 at Erimi, Cyprus while
on duty. He died two days later at 82 General Hospital, Platres,24 and was accorded a service funeral at
Troodos, this being the nearest burial ground to his place of death.25 He was the only serviceman to be
buried at Troodos during the Second World War, as well as the only member of the RAF in this cemetery.
Mackman, William Leonard
Corporal
534943
29/09/1942
Royal Air Force
Grave 69.
Casualty record from CWGC website
24 The Forest Park Hotel in Platres, constructed in 1936 and still in use in 2013, was commandeered by the British Forces in
the Second World War and used as a general hospital. Corporal Mackman would have been admitted to this hospital.
25 Information obtained from letter dated 17 June 1970 from Ministry of Defence to Officer Commanding Royal Signals
Troop, kept in Troodos Garrison files.
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