Aarhus West Cemetery, Denmark

Flight Sergeant John Herbert Hamilton             Row G Collective Grave 311

Aberdeen (Allenvale) Cemetery, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Flight Sergeant Robert Low                                        Section D Grave 2068

Alamein Memorial, Alamein, Egypt

The campaign in the Western Desert was fought between the Commonwealth forces based in Egypt (joined later by French, Greek and Polish forces) and the Axis forces based in Libya.  The battlefield comprised the 1,000 kilometres of desert between Alexandria in Egypt and Benghazi in Libya and the objectives included control of the Mediterranean, control of the link with the east through the Suez Canal, control of the Middle East oil supplies and control of the supply route to Russia through Persia (Iran).

The Alamein Memorial forms the entrance to the El Alamein War Cemetery and those commemorated include Commonwealth soldiers who died in various campaigns in Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Persia, Syria and Tunisia.  Also commemorated are Commonwealth airmen who died in various campaigns in Aden, the Aegean, Crete, East Africa, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Greece, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Madagascar, Somalia, Sudan and Syria.

Flight Lieutenant Ephraim Hugh Brown                                           Column 247

Lance Bombardier Edward James Flynn                                          Column 33

Trooper George Griffith Griffiths                                                           Column 24

Corporal William James Hunter                                                           Column 263

Sergeant Thomas Leonard Kirk                                                            Column 31

Gunner William McBlain                                                                         Column 36

Lance Corporal John McManus                                                           Column 55

Trooper Thomas Shillington                                                                Column 24

Corporal Albert Charles Tyler                                                              Column 30

Corporal James Whelan                                                                        Column 281

Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt

Like Hadra (see immediately below), Chatby is a district on the eastern side of the city of Alexandria.  The cemetery at Chatby was used during the First World War until 1916 when a new cemetery was opened at Hadra.  During the Second World War Alexandria was again an important hospital centre and casualties were brought from various campaigns in the Aegean Islands, Crete, Greece, the Mediterranean and  the Western Desert.  Also in Alexandria there were rest camps, an anti-aircraft base, a communications base and a Military Police headquarters.

Driver Patrick Hynds                                                                      Grave N 131

Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt

Like Chatby (see immediately above), Hadra is a district on the eastern side of the city of Alexandria.  The cemetery at Hadra was extended for Second World War burials and was used from 1941.

Sergeant William Duncan Irwin                                                      Grave 6 B 9

Ambon War Cemetery, Indonesia

Ambon Island lies close to the south west coast of Seram (Ceram) in the Maluka (Molucca or Spice) Islands.  During the Second World War, Ambon was the site of a Dutch military base which was captured from the Allied forces by the Japanese forces in the Battle of Ambon (February 1942).  The base was used by the Japanese as a Prisoner-of-War Camp where many prisoners died of overwork, malnutrition, disease and the brutality of the camp regime.

Flying Officer Francis Raymond Moore                                           Grave 6 A 10

Ancaster (Bethesda United Church) Cemetery, Ontario, Canada

Flight Lieutenant Harold Abraham McCaghey                       Shaver Family Plot

Ardglass (St. Nicholas) Church of Ireland Churchyard, Co. Down

Sergeant George William Thomas Walker                                      Grave 2

Ardrossan Cemetery, Ayrshire, Scotland

Captain Robert Ernest Kyle

Ardstraw Church of Ireland Churchyard, Newtownstewart, Co. Tyrone

Sergeant John Patterson MacIlwaine                          Section E Grave 445