Monmouth Pier
A pier that was established in the summer of 1915 to facilitate the disembarkation of men and supplies of the British and ANZAC for their settlement in the area.
Ordnance Pier
A pier that was established in the summer of 1915 to facilitate the disembarkation of men and supplies of the British and ANZAC for their settlement in the area.
West Mudros Muslim cemetery
There are 176 Egyptian workers of the British army and 56 Turkish prisoners buried in the West Mudros Muslim cemetery.
It is a Muslim cemetery which is located on the peninsula, on the western side of the natural port of Moudros near the Portianou village. The visitor reaches it by following a 3 km long dirt road from Portianou. It was built in memory of the Egyptian workers, who joined the Egyptian Labor Corps, that had arrived in 1915 in Lemnos and had remained there for one year in order for them to undertake the implementation of the required works on the island for meeting the objectives of the British army and navy. The cemetery is more a memorial and less a cemetery, as the original burials were made in the surrounding area and not in the cemetery.
It is surrounded by a four-sided wall with a side of 8.5 m long and a height of about 1.2 m. In the center of the yard, a four-sided truncated pyramid has been erected, 1.35 m high and measuring 1.35X1.35 m at its base and 1.15X1.15 m. at its top. The pyramid stands on a base shaped like three steps, each 0.22 m high. It bears two insert marble plates with inscriptions in Arabic and English: “One Hundred and Seventy men of the Egyptian Labor Corps are buried near this spot”. A third one indicates: “Fifty-six Turkish soldiers are buried near this spot”.
Water well of the Portianou peninsula
This is one of the wells dug by the Labor Corps of the British Army for the needs of the soldiers and animals in 1915. It is not the only well that is still preserved today from that time, but it is the one that can be distinguished more easily. There are the remains of three other wells on the line of the well with the sea and close to the Ordnance pier.
Portianos Military Cemetery
This is the military cemetery of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Portianou village, where 347 people of the British Commonwealth are buried and there is also the memorial of the victims of HMS Endymion. Initially, in August 1915, the British used the area behind the church of the Assumption of the Virgin and the village cemetery as a burial site. They continued to bury their dead there until August 1920. Today, Portianos Cemetery is one of the two official cemeteries of the British Commonwealth in Lemnos, where 347 burials of Commonwealth soldiers from the operations of Gallipoli had taken place.
The cemetery itself has an irregular shape, which looks like a trapezoid, something that was dictated by the geographical location and the neighborhood with the village church. Most burials are in rows in the front of the cemetery, but there are two more with different layouts on the other side of the site.
The Cross of Sacrifice is not an autonomous structure, but a sculpture inserted in construction that houses the Altar of Memory and it consists of two columns, which are crowned with a circular arch and a small roof. In general, the cemetery area is neither covered as a whole, as in the British cemeteries of Macedonia nor do the burials follow a strict military order. Morphologically, the location but also the Altar and the Cross, are more similar to the constructions of the cemeteries of Gallipoli.
The center is dominated by a large pine tree, and there is a monument in the vicinity for four sailors of the warship HMS Endymion, who were killed in service in 1918. It has the shape of a four-sided column and its top is crowned by an anchor tied with a rope to a cross. In 2019 a plaque was erected in honor of the nurses from Canada.