by anzac_admin | Jun 24, 2022
It is the Historical Information Center of Portianou village. The Information Center is a place concerning all the historical data and periods of Lemnos. Its interior is structured in sections. The first one refers to the mythology and the rest to the history of Lemnos from ancient times until the Ottoman Empire, to the liberation of the island by the Greek armed forces in 1912 and it culminates in the section on Lemnos, which was the rear of a large theater of operations of World War I, ie the Battle of Gallipoli and the presence of ANZAC on the island.
by anzac_admin | Jun 24, 2022
The 1st ANZAC hospital, the 15th, and 16th British military hospitals, and an Indian hospital were established between March 1915 – January 1916 within a short distance from the port of Moudros.
by anzac_admin | Jun 23, 2022
Supply store in Portianou square. It used to be a grocery store in 1915 and survives to this day. It is a ground-floor building of the early 20th century, built with local soft yellow stone and has a tiled roof. The exterior changes are minimal.
by anzac_admin | Jun 23, 2022
It is the main cemetery of the forces of the British Commonwealth and Entente in Lemnos. It is located next to the Christian cemetery of the village Moudros, which is on the east side of the homonymous bay and it is located 25 km from Myrina. During the Great War, Moudros was the main base for the warships and escort ships of the British and French fleets in the operation to take over the Dardanelles Straits. The cemetery was used for the burials of soldiers from April 1915 until September 1919. It houses a total of 885 burials of soldiers of the First World War. Most of them are buried in individual burials in four sections at various points in the cemetery. There are also two sections dedicated, the first one to the Muslim dead of the war that bears the inscription: “Here are buried Muslim soldiers of the Indian Army and the Egyptian Labor Corps” and the second one to the dead Hindu soldiers that bears the inscription: “Soldiers of the Indian Army are Honored here.” The Altar of Remembrance and the Cross of Sacrifice are among the sections dedicated to Muslims and Hindus. Both have the same shape as the cemeteries in Gallipoli, Turkey. There is also a French and a British monument to the dead of Gallipoli inside the cemetery. There are also 28 individual tombs of Russian soldiers and of a woman who left Novorossiysk in 1921 after the Bolsheviks took power, who died and were buried in Lemnos.
by anzac_admin | Jun 23, 2022
The site of the 3rd Australian General Hospital. It used to be a large campaign hospital that was set up on the Portianou peninsula in August 1915 and remained there until January 1916 when it was moved to Alexandria, Egypt. It had many beds, dispensaries, and hospital laboratories, as well as tents for staff living while its capacity reached 1000 beds. Many doctors and nurses from Australia worked there and the site from where the ANZAC used to watch ships arriving and departing from Mudros Bay in their spare time, is behind the hospital site.
