In Memory of
EDWARD LIONEL CULLIMORE
Flight Lieutenant
39860
216 Sqdn., Royal Air Force
who died on
Friday, 18th October 1940. Age 21.
| Additional Information: |
Son of Walter Victor and Mary Maria Cullimore,
of Cromhall, Gloucestershire. |
Commemorative Information
| Memorial: |
ALAMEIN MEMORIAL, Egypt |
Grave Reference/
Panel Number: |
Column 239.
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| Location: |
The Alamein Memorial forms the entrance to
the El Alamein War Cemetery. Alamein is a village, bypassed by the main
coast road, approximately 130 kilometres west of Alexandria on the road
to Mersa Matruh. The first Commission road direction sign is located
just beyond the Alamein police checkpoint and all cemetery visitors
should turn off from the main road onto the parallel old coast road. The
cemetery lies off the road beyond the ridge, and road direction signs
are in place approximately 25 metres before the low metal gates and
stone wing walls which are situated centrally at the road edge at the
head of the access path into the cemetery. The Cross of Sacrifice
feature may be seen from the road. The Alamein Memorial Land Forces
panels commemorate the soldiers of the British Commonwealth and Empire
who fell in the campaigns in Egypt and Libya, and in the operations of
the Eighth Army in Tunisia up to 19th February 1943, who have no known
grave. It also commemorates those who served and fell in Syria, Lebanon,
Iraq and Persia. The Alamein Memorial Air Forces panels commemorate the
airmen of the Commonwealth who fell in the campaigns in Egypt, Libya,
Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Greece, Crete and the Aegean, Ethiopia, Eritrea
and the Somalilands, the Sudan, East Africa, Aden and Madagascar, who
have no known grave. Those who served with the Rhodesian and South
African Air Training Scheme and have no known grave are also honoured
here. Also within El Alamein War Cemetery, in the south-eastern part,
will be found the Alamein Cremation Memorial.
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| Historical Information: |
The Alamein Memorial commemorates 11868,
1939-1945 war casualties. |
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