French and British camps and hospitals in Moudros

French and British camps and hospitals in Moudros

French and British camps and hospitals between Moudros and Lychna at a short distance from the sea. Houses with administrative areas were built near the pier and the camps were there, too. There was a camp for the Ottoman prisoners of war among those they built.

British Hospitals of Moudros

British Hospitals of Moudros

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.

Moudros Cemetery

Moudros Cemetery

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.

French monument to the dead of the Gallipoli campaign

French monument to the dead of the Gallipoli campaign

There is a French monument dedicated to the dead of the Gallipoli campaign in the center of the cemetery that has been erected on the initiative of the veterans’ associations. It is quadrangular and built of local black stone. It has a width at the base of 5 m, a base height of 0.65 m, and a total height of 6 m. On its main side, the north one, there is the inscription: “Pour la France 1915-1916″ (”For France 1915-1916″) and there is an insert plaque indicating: “A nos camarades morts pour la France. Leurs freres d’Armes. Pelerinage du 12 Juin 1930 ” (“To our comrades who died for France. Their comrades-in-arms. Pilgrimage of June 12, 1930”). The other two sides show the years 1915 and 1916.