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Second World War burials

There is only one remaining burial of a serving soldier from the Second World War in this cemetery,

namely 23 year old Captain Jasper Peter Young of the 3rd The King’s Own Hussars, whose grave bears a
non-CWGC headstone:

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

Young, Captain
73624
17/09/1941
23
Royal Armoured Plot J. Grave 5.
Jasper Peter
Corps

The CWGC casualty record of the only Second World War serviceman still buried at Nicosia British Cemetery. Cap-

tain Young served with the prestigious 3rd The King’s Own Hussars,8 probably helping to defend Nicosia Aerodrome
and Wayne’s Keep, as part of the 21,000 British and Commonwealth troops garrisoning Cyprus in autumn 1941.
9

Captain Jasper Peter Young, 3rd The King’s Own Hussars.10

Four other soldiers who had originally been buried in Nicosia British Cemetery between 14

October 1940 and 1 March 1941 were re-interred at Nicosia War Cemetery in CWGC graves

once that cemetery was opened.11

8 History, 3rd The King’s Own Hussars, on website of The Queen’s Own Hussars Museum www.qohmuseum.org.uk/3rd.htm

9 Morgan, Tabitha (2010), Sweet and Bitter Island: A History of the British in Cyprus. (London: I B Tauris), pp. 181 – 182.
10 Portrait of Captain Jasper Peter Young downloaded from www.thepeerage.com/p52458.htm
11 The Register of Nicosia British Cemetery gives their names as [Lance Corporal] James Hall (died 14 October 1940),

Private Dennis Peel 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (22 January 1941), Private Harold George Boddington 1st Battalion
Sherwood Foresters (26 February 1941) and Corporal Robert Watson (1 March 1941).

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