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EAST MUDROS MILITARY CEMETERY
Country: Greece
Locality: unspecified
Location Information: The Cemetery is on the Greek island of
Limnos in the north-east Aegean Sea. It is situated on rising
ground on the north east side of the village of Mudros and is
about 1 kilometre out of the village, next to the Greek Civil
Cemetery. Mudros is on the east side of Mudros Bay, on the way
to Kaminia village.
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.
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