3705 x 5731 px | 31,4 x 48,5 cm | 12,4 x 19,1 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
30 settembre 2014
Ubicazione:
El Alamein, Egypt
Altre informazioni:
It was in 1954 that the first memorial was inaugurated. It belonged to the Allies and was built by the Imperial War Graves Commission on land offered to the Commission by the people of Egypt. Situated north of the original cemetery where 8, 000 soldiers had already been buried, an impressive shrine was gradually erected made up of a series of cloisters stretching on an east-west axis for almost 90 meters. When Sir Hubert Worthington designed the above memorial he made full use of the surroundings when selecting the building material so that the main part of the building and halls were mostly made of white limestone carved out from nearby quarries. Only the pavings and copings made of Travertine marble were imported from Italy. The memorial's inside walls where you can find the fixed panels made of Portland stone bearing the 11, 945 names of the fallen soldiers. Field Marshal Viscount Bernard Law Montgomery unveiled the memorial on 24 October 1954.
