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Location

Directions

This peaceful cemetery is situated close to the traffic lights at the corner of Archbishop Kyprianou Street
with Kerkiras Street, at the side of a busy road, a short walk north of the archaeological museum and

the old trireme shipyard. Its back wall borders the extensive remains of the Phoenician temple of Astarte
which itself was built over some of the remains of the ancient city-state of Kition. The cemetery would

originally have been outside the old city of Larnaca but development has crept around it.

Military Graves1

There are four graves in this cemetery with an obvious military connection. They include the earliest
burial in the cemetery, Midshipman Ernest Robert Travers of HMS Monarch, who died at Larnaca at

the young age of 15 years on 2 October 1879. The cause of his death is unknown. He was the eldest son
of Augusta and Ines Travers,2 he had been promoted Midshipman on 21 December 1878 and had only

recently been appointed to HMS Monarch, serving with the Mediterranean Fleet, on 11 January 1879.3

1 Wiltshire Family History Society, October 1995, pp. 11 – 12.

2 The Times, 6 October 1879
3 Navy List, June 1879

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