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The Graveyards of Gallipoli; A Digger History Associate Site |
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A Tribute to the Men of all the Nations that took part in the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915 |
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East Mudros Military Cemetery Lemnos Greece |
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below is the Portianos Military Cemetery Lemnos |
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Mudros Cemetery, Lemnos Island, Greece. 1915. East Mudros Military Cemetery containing the graves of Allied soldiers killed in the Gallipoli Campaign. The building in the left background covers a memorial to their memory. Mudros village is in the background. The grave marked with a cross in the front row, fifth from left is 495 Trooper Robert Martin, 5th Australian Light Horse, who died of peritonitis 27 August 1915. |
| Cemetery: | EAST MUDROS MILITARY CEMETERY |
| Country: | Greece |
| Locality: | Lemnos |
| Location Information: | Mudros is on the island of Lemnos in the north-east Aegean. East Mudros Military Cemetery is situated on rising ground, about kilometre north east of the village of Mudros, next to the Greek Civil Cemetery. |
| Historical Information: | Because
of its position, the island of Lemnos played an important part in the
campaigns against Turkey during the First World War. It was occupied by
a force of marines on 23 February 1915 in preparation for the military
attack on Gallipoli, and Mudros became a considerable Allied camp. The
1st and 3rd Canadian Stationary Hospitals, the 3rd Australian General
Hospital and other medical units were stationed on both sides of Mudros
Bay and a considerable Egyptian Labour Corps detachment was
employed.
After the evacuation of Gallipoli, a garrison remained on the island and the 1st Royal Naval Brigade was on Lemnos, Imbros and Tenedos for the first few months of 1916. On 30 October 1918, the Armistice between the Entente Powers and Turkey was signed at Mudros. East Mudros Military Cemetery was begun in April 1915 and used until September 1919. It contains 885 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 86 of them unidentified, and one Second World War burial. There are also seven non war naval graves and 32 burials of other nationalities in the cemetery, 29 of them Russians who died in the evacuation of Novorossisk in 1921, who are remembered on a memorial plaque set into the boundary wall. |
| No. of Identified Casualties: | 810 |
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Portianos Military Cemetery Lemnos Greece |
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| Cemetery: | PORTIANOS MILITARY CEMETERY |
| Country: | Greece |
| Locality: | Lemnos |
| Location Information: | The cemetery is situated in the hamlet of Portianos which is on the west side of Mudros Bay. |
| Historical Information: | Because
of its position, the island of Lemnos played an important part in the
campaigns against Turkey during the First World War. It was occupied by
a force of marines on 23 February 1915 in preparation for the military
attack on Gallipoli, and Mudros became a considerable Allied camp. The
1st and 3rd Canadian Stationary Hospitals, the 3rd Australian General
Hospital and other medical units were stationed on both sides of Mudros
bay and a considerable Egyptian Labour Corps detachment was
employed.
After the evacuation of Gallipoli, a garrison remained on the island and the 1st Royal Naval Brigade was on Lemnos, Imbros and Tenedos for the first few months of 1916. On 30 October 1918, the Armistice between the Entente Powers and Turkey was signed at Mudros. Portianos Military Cemetery was begun in August 1915 and used until August 1920. The cemetery now contains 347 Commonwealth burial of the First World War and five war graves of other nationalities. |
| No. of Identified Casualties: | 350 |
