RAMLEH WAR CEMETERY (ISRAEL AND PALESTINE)
HISTORY INFORMATION
The cemetery dates from the First World War, when Ramleh (now Ramla) was occupied by the 1st Australian Light Horse Brigade on 1 November 1917. Field Ambulances, and later Casualty Clearing Stations, were posted at Ramleh and Lydda from December 1917 onwards. The cemetery was begun by the medical units, but some graves were brought in later from the battlefields and from Latron, Sarona and Wilhema Military and Indian Cemeteries.
During the Second World War, this cemetery was used by the Ramla Royal Air Force Station and by various Commonwealth hospitals posted in turn to the area for varying periods.
RAMLEH WAR CEMETERY contains 3,300 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 964 of them unidentified. Second World War burials number 1,168. There are also 892 war graves of other nationalities from both wars, and 525 non-war burials, many from the RAF and garrison stations that were at Ramleh in the inter war years and until the end of the British Mandate in Palestine in 1948.
Within Ramleh War Cemetery will be found:
The RAMLEH 1914-18 MEMORIAL, erected in 1961 to commemorate more than 300 Commonwealth, German and Turkish servicemen of the First World War who lie buried in cemeteries elsewhere in Israel where their graves could no longer be maintained. Only 74 of the casualties are named.
The RAMLEH 1939-45 MEMORIAL, commemorating 28 Jewish and non Arab servicemen of the Second World War, and six non-war casualties of the Palestine Police Force, who lie buried in cemeteries elsewhere in Israel where their graves could not be maintained in perpetuity.
The original war cemetery was designed by Sir John J. Burnet, but following the addition of the 1939-45 war graves, the site was extensively remodelled in the 1950s by Alan Stewart, ARIBA.
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SURNAME
Cook
FORENAME
Arthur Frederick
UNIT
21 Independent Parachute Company
RANK
Private
NUMBER
2574265
DATE OF DEATH
25th May 1946
AGE
24
GRAVESITE
Ramleh War Cemetery,Israel 7.G.14
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 20.2.1922
"Cooke" and rank "Driver" (Armed Forces Memorial)...
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SURNAME
Lemon
FORENAME
Leslie Arthur
UNIT
HQ 1 Para Brigade (Army Physical Training Corps,attached)
RANK
Warrant Officer Second Class (QMS Instructor)
NUMBER
3311468
DATE OF DEATH
1st October 1946
AGE
32
GRAVESITE
Ramleh War Cemetery,Israel 7.L.19
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...
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SURNAME
Park
FORENAME
John Henry
UNIT
5 Para
RANK
Private
NUMBER
5734160
DATE OF DEATH
25th April 1946
AGE
23
GRAVESITE
Ramleh War Cemetery,Israel 7.F.19
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 17.10.1922
son of Albert and Fernand Park
husband of Rose Park,Prestwich,Lancashire
rank...
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SURNAME
Morrison
FORENAME
Alexander
UNIT
5 Para
RANK
Private
NUMBER
2887006
DATE OF DEATH
25th April 1946
AGE
24
GRAVESITE
Ramleh War Cemetery,Israel 7.F.15
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 13.1.1922
son of Alexander and Williamina Morrison,Aberdeen
KIA Tel Aviv,Palestine
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SURNAME
McKay
FORENAME
Hugh Shirlaw
UNIT
5 Para
RANK
Private
NUMBER
14867443
DATE OF DEATH
25th April 1946
AGE
19
GRAVESITE
Ramleh War Cemetery,Israel 7.F.18
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 9.9.1926
son of Hugh Shirlaw and Sophia McKay,Bargeddie,Lanarkshire
KIA Tel...
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SURNAME
Lewis
FORENAME
Harry
UNIT
5 Para
RANK
Private
NUMBER
14533981
DATE OF DEATH
25th April 1946
AGE
22
GRAVESITE
Ramleh War Cemetery,Israel 7.F.16
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 16.3.1924
KIA Tel Aviv,Israel
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SURNAME
Knight
FORENAME
Norman Edgar
UNIT
5 Para
RANK
Private
NUMBER
14455077
DATE OF DEATH
25th April 1946
AGE
19
GRAVESITE
Ramleh War Cemetery,Israel 7.F.17
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 29.3.1927
son of Robert Henry and Ethel Knight,Marylebone,London
KIA Tel Aviv,Palestine
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SURNAME
Hope
FORENAME
John
UNIT
5 Para
RANK
Private
NUMBER
1802412
DATE OF DEATH
25th April 1946
AGE
25
GRAVESITE
Ramleh War Cemetery,Israel 7.G.1
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 11.11.1920
son of James and Mary Hope,Cliffe Castle,Yorkshire
KIA Tel Aviv,Palestine
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SURNAME
Gilliard
FORENAME
John Alexander
UNIT
5 Para
RANK
Private
NUMBER
7021365
DATE OF DEATH
25th April 1946
AGE
23
GRAVESITE
Ramleh War Cemetery,Israel 7.G.2
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 22.1.1923
son of Charles and Mary Gilliard,Rathfarnham,Co. Dublin,Irish Republic...
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SURNAME
Kerley
FORENAME
Gerald Charles
UNIT
SAS (possibly Special Boat Squadron)
RANK
Trooper
NUMBER
5727124
DATE OF DEATH
11th July 1944
AGE
24
GRAVESITE
Ramleh War Cemetery,Israel 5.E.6
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 13.09.1919, Hampreston, Dorset
son of Charles and...
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SURNAME
Robertson
FORENAME
Andrew
UNIT
11 Commando
RANK
Gunner
NUMBER
958993
DATE OF DEATH
2nd July 1941
AGE
22
GRAVESITE
Ramleh War Cemetery,Israel P.22
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Royal Artillery
born Fife
son of Andrew and Louisa Robertson,Cupar,Fife
DOW Litani...
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SURNAME
Oliphant
FORENAME
Archibald Johnston
UNIT
11 Commando
RANK
Lance Bombardier
NUMBER
894985
DATE OF DEATH
16th June 1941
AGE
21
GRAVESITE
Ramleh War Cemetery,Israel P.8
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Royal Artillery
born Middlesex
son of James and Martha Lucy...