Jerusalem British War Cemetery

Entrance to the Jerusalem British Military Cemetery
Cross in center of Cemetery
Chapel of Jerusalem British Military Cemetery
Dedication to Missing Soldiers
Entrance to chapel of Jerusalem British Military Cemetery
View of Old City of Jerusalem from cemetery
View of Western half of cemetery
Looking East in Jerusalem British Military Cemetery
Graves of Jewish Commonwealth Dead
Graves of four German soldiers
Grave of a Turkish soldier

Jerusalem British War Cemetery is a British cemetery in Jerusalem (Jerusalem War Cemetery) for fallen servicemen of the British Commonwealth in the World War I in Palestine.

The main Jerusalem War Cemetery is located on Mount Scopus next to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem campus and 4.5 km north of the Old City of Jerusalem.[1]

The Jerusalem War Cemetery now contains the graves of 2,515 Commonwealth service personnel (including 100 unidentified), a number of whom were removed from at least seven other cemeteries in the area where they could not be maintained. A small Jewish section is near Plot 'N'. Units from Australia, New Zealand, India, Egypt, South Africa and the British West Indies are also represented besides those of the United Kingdom.[1] A small number of German and Turkish dead also are buried at the cemetery.

Notable burials include Major Philip Glazebrook, British Conservative Member of Parliament.[2]

The cemetery also contains the Jerusalem Memorial to 3,300 Commonwealth service personnel who died on operations in the same war in Egypt and Palestine and have no known grave. Its architect was John James Burnet and the sculptor Gilbert Bayes. It was unveiled on 7 May 1927 by Lord Allenby, who had been British commander-in-chief in the Middle East. The Memorial incorporates a chapel with a mosaic floor that was designed by Robert Anning Bell.[1]

Notable commemoratees include New Zealand rugby international, Trooper Eric Harper.[3]

A local regulation passed by the British Mandate prohibits buildings downhill from the cemetery blocking its views of the Old City.

The Indian War Cemetery is another UK World War I cemetery in Jerusalem, located in the southern neighbourhood of Talpiot, on Korei HaDorot Street.[4][5] It contains the mass grave of 79 Indian soldiers from the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, as well as the graves of 290 Turkish prisoners of war.[6][7] Other war dead, many of them Arab workers employed by the expeditionary corps,[8] are buried in three more separate cemeteries: the Latin (Catholic) Cemetery and the Protestant Cemetery (likely those from Mount Zion), and the Bab Sitna Mariam Muslim cemetery next to the Lions' Gate.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 CWGC Cemetery Report.
  2. ↑ CWGC Casualty Record, Philip James Glazebrook.
  3. ↑ CWGC Casualty Record, Eric Tristram Harper.
  4. ↑ Moti Ben-Ari, Indian War Cemetery Rehov Korei Hadorot, Talpiot, in Jerusalem Post, 5 December 2008
  5. ↑ Wikimapia ]
  6. 1 2 Commonwealth War Graves Commission, WWI cemeteries in Jerusalem
  7. ↑ Oren Kessler, In Israel and Palestinian Territories, British still tend memory of 16,000 war dead, in The Tablet Magazine, 11 November 2013, retrieved 28 July 2016
  8. ↑ John Starling, Ivor Lee, No Labour, No Battle: Military Labour during the First World War ]

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Coordinates: 31°47′54″N 35°14′23″E / 31.79833°N 35.23972°E / 31.79833; 35.23972


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