Portianos military cemetary Moudros Lemnos Greece
Whilst visiting the island I stopped over to see the military cemetary just outside Moudros. My mother was reading the history of the cemetary towards the end of the video clip..
The hamlet of Portianos is on the west side of Moudros Bay, on the Greek island of Limnos in the north-east Aegean Sea. The cemetery is on the outskirts on the village, on Anzac Street, adjacent to the communal cemetery.
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 Moudros 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 Moudros. 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.
East Mudros military cemetery/ Στρατ. κοιμητήρια Μούδρου
This is the East Mudros military cemetery where soldiers of the commonwealth killed during the Dardanelles campaign were burried/ Τα στρατιωτικα κοιμητηρια του Μούδρου όπου είναι θαμμένοι στρατιώτες της κοινοπολιτείας
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Moudros is the second largest city located on the southeast coast of Lemnos. A picturesque port town in a magnificent bay, Moudros is an excellent place to stay. Restaurants, cafes and shops line the port, and there are many different accommodations available as well. The remains of a castle destroyed by the Venetians, the Allied Cemetery, the Church of Taxiarches and the Church of the Evangelistria (Annunciation of the Virgin) are all sights worth seeing in Moudros. There are many spectacular beaches near the town. Surrounding the village, are the wetlands of Moudros. They are home to large populations of fish and shell fauna. Nearby Moudros are more wetlands: Palaio Pedino and Nea Koutali. The petrified forest is also nearby.
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Anzac centenary, Lemnos
The Greek island of Lemnos was a strategic centre in the Allied campaign against Turkey during World War One. Three days of ceremonies were held to mark the centenary of the Allied landing at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 and the role of the island in the campaign. After Royal Marines occupied Lemnos on 23 February 1915 it became a hub for supplies. More importantly it was where wounded from Gallipoli were treated because Lemnos is only 65km from the Turkish coast. Many died of their wounds. More than 900 soldiers and nurses from India, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Canada, Egypt and Ireland are buried at the three Commonwealth War Graves cemeteries on the island.
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Images taken at Mikra Cemetary,Thessaloniki,Greece and Bolsena Cemetary,Tuscany,Italy.Archibald Donald Bingham was my great grandfather.Henry Taft Bruce was my wife's grandfather.
Music by Wolfstone - Song For Yesterday taken from the album Unleashed.
Ottoman military graveyard found on Greek island off Gallipoli
Days before the 100th anniversary commemoration of the Gallipoli Campaign, Ankara has discovered a military graveyard for Ottoman soldiers on a Greek island where Turkish and Egyptian soldiers were buried by British forces.
Britain, the leader of the multinational invasion attempt on the Ottoman peninsula of Gallipoli in 1915, had chosen the nearby Aegean island of Lemnos as a military logistics base.
A hundred years after the campaign ended with a Turkish victory, Ambassador Kerim Uras recently discovered during a visit that the island had also a military graveyard for the Ottoman soldiers who died in the war.
Winston Churchill, who planned the Allied invasion as Britain’s First Lord of the Admiralty at the time, had set up his headquarters and lived for two months at the village of Portianou in Lemnos.
The island now has three cemeteries for those who fell during the Gallipoli campaign. Until recently, Ankara knew about only two of them: The first one for the 352 Allied soldiers in Portianou and the second one for the 148 Australian and 76 New Zealander soldiers in the town of Moudros, where the Allied forces signed an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, which ultimately lost World War I.
First Turkish diplomat to visit in 97 years
Uras recently became the first Turkish diplomat to visit Lemnos after Ottoman Minister of Marine Affairs Rauf Bey, who signed the Armistice of Moudros in 1918. Uras discovered the existence of the Muslim cemetery on behalf of Ankara, thanks to local Greek officials who pointed to it during the visit.
A granite monument marks the Muslim cemetery of Lemnos, which was built by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Two of the three placards on the monument inform visitors in English that 170 Egyptian and 56 Turkish soldiers were buried here. The third placard presents the information in Arabic.
The name of the soldiers who were buried here are currently unknown, but it is thought that they were among the 715 Ottoman prisoners who were kept in Lemnos and died between 1917 and 1919.
Turkish army launches study on archives
Turkey’s General Staff commenced a study of its archives following the discovery. Ankara also asked Greek authorities to restore the graveyard, turn it into a “martyr’s memorial” and help identify the late soldiers.
There are Turkish military graveyards in at least three more Greek islands. As the successor of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey’s Defense Ministry keeps a large number of overseas military graveyards from Estonia to Myanmar.
The status of Lemnos is still controversial as Turkey and Greece disagree with each other’s interpretation of international law. Turkey cites the Lausanne Treaty of 1923 to demand the demilitarization of Lemnos, but Greece argues that the Montreux Treaty of 1936 gives itself the right to position troops and arms on the island.
Greece has also been insisting for years on including its troops on Lemnos in NATO military exercises. As Ankara has persistently vetoed this proposal, Athens has continued to withdraw from NATO exercises in the Aegean Sea.
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A video in remembrance of C H. Miller, from his enlistment at Kingston Barracks to the Somme, via Egypt, Moudros and the Dardanelles.
Killed in Action 28th September 1916 whilst attacking the Schwaben Redoubt.
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