Design for the Port Tewfik Memorial (also known as the Indian War Memorial), Suez Port (formerly Port Tewfik), for the Imperial War Graves Commission: details of the pylons and terminals to the wing wall Architect/Designer Burnet, Sir John James (1857-1938) Jagger, Charles Sargeant (1885-1934) Country Egypt City Suez Port Subject Date 1926 Image Date 1923 Medium Drawing Library Reference PA855/6(6) Orientation Portrait Colour Info Colour Credit RIBA Collections Subject War memorials ; Funerary architecture ; Cemeteries
NOTES: This memorial was designed to commemmorate the officers and men of the Indian Army who died in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I. It was destroyed by the retreating Egyptian army during the Six-Day War in 1967 and later relocated to the Heliopolis War cemetery in Cairo. The sculptures were by Charles Sargeant Jagger.
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