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List updated May 1, 2010

Country Total = 10

10 graves in 2 possibly 3 cemeteries

Completed = 0 (or 0.0%)

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Maala Cemetery
6
1
1
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Silent Valley Cemetery, Aden
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Unknown Cemetery possibly Maala
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MAALA CEMETERY

Maala lies on the Southern side of Aden Harbour, halfway between the Steamer Point and Crater on the main road south of Khromasksar Airport. The Cemetery is located south of the main road to Crater. Within the cemetery, on the central avenue beyond the Cross of Sacrifice, stand the Maala Memorials. The names are inscribed on panels inserted on three sides of a stone pillar which forms part of a memorial seat and which also incorporates the Register box. This Memorial (Maala Memorial No.1) commemorates 65 soldiers who died in or near Yemen during the 1939-1945 War; 33 men of the Indian Forces who were cremated, and 32 who lie buried in graves which could not be located or maintained, of whom 27 soldiers belonged to the United Kingdom Forces and five to the Forces of East and West Africa and of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland. A later extension on the western side of the Maala Memorial (Maala Memorial No.2) commemorates ten servicemen of the 1914-1918 War and one airman of the 1939-1945 War who were buried at North Point Christian Cemetery, Kamaran Island and Perim Cemetery, Perim Island. Kamaran and Perim are remote places at the southern end of the Red Sea, and these eleven graves can no longer be maintained. The airman served with No. 203 Squadron, Royal Air Force, which was based at Aden at the outbreak of the 1939-1945 War. Most of the servicemen of the 1914-1918 War buried here lost their lives in the defence of Aden against the Turks. There are war burials of the 1939-1945 War in Maala Cemetery. Most of those buried in other parts of Yemeni territory, whose graves could not be maintained, were later transferred to this cemetery. Aden was a naval and air base of vital importance during the war. The cemetery is surrounded on four sides by a wall. The entrance, on the northern side, leads to the central avenue, and half-way along stands the Cross of Sacrifice at the intersection of two paths. The war graves, which are scattered in the different denominational plots among those of civilians, are marked by headstones or private memorials and surrounded by kerbs filled with coral chippings. Many of the graves of the 1914-1918 War have also been kerbed in conformity with the general design of the cemetery. Facing the Cross of Sacrifice towards the end of the main avenue stands a memorial, known as the Maala Memorial, commemorating soldiers of the 1939-1945 War who were either cremated or buried elsewhere in Yemeni territory. On its west side is a further memorial commemorating servicemen of the 1914-1918 War and one airman of the 1939-1945 War whose graves at North Point Christian Cemetery, Kamaran Island and Perim Cemetery can no longer be maintained.

BALL, Corporal, LILIAN A., W/150738. Women's Auxiliary Army Services, S.A. Forces. 15th July 1941. Age 46. Daughter of William A. and Fanny R. Woodward H. 44

BENJAMIN, Private, GEORGE EDWARD, C/304420. Cape Corps, S.A. Forces. 15th December 1941. H. 58

JOHNSON, Private, H L, 28381. Rand Light Infantry, S.A. Forces. 28th November 1942. I. 31

TOFFIE, Private, ADAM, C/165563. Cape Corps, S.A. Forces. 13th June 1941. F. 76

WALKER, Sergeant, T H F, 213763V. General Service Corps, S.A. Forces. 28th December 1943. Age 39. Son of John H. and Helen Walker, of Cape Town, South Africa; husband of Mabel 1. Walker, of Cape Town H. 98

YOUNG, Air Mechanic, CLIFFORD EXMOUTH, 95860. 11 Sqdn. South African Air Force. 21st May 1941. Age 25. Husband of Engela P. Young, of Bloemfontein, Orange Free State H. 35

Rhodesia Units

FULELA KAMBAKASUMA, Private, NRA/10249. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 21st August 1940. H. 24

 

UNKNOWN CEMETERY VISAGIE M MANIE 2nd Cook Merchant Navy S.S. Empire Mariott 2-Aug-43 48 Died from a Pontine Haemorrhage, at Aden Coloured man. ref. Ancestry24.co.za & ref. South African Roll of Honour 1939-1945 ***Not yet accepted for War Grave Status by CWGC, need service file

MAALA CEMETERY SHOPLAND J R JAMES ROBERT . Private . . 23915197 1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk) . . . 4-Jun-1964 26-Feb-1943 21 . . Of East London, South Africa

SILENT VALLEY CEMETERY, ADEN MORGAN D A DAVID ANTHONY Yes Lieutenant 471312 Royal Corps of Transport . 5-May-1967 5-Oct-1942 24 Plot 6, Row B, Grave 1 . Gwelo, Southern Rhodesia

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