The Medjez-El-Bab Memorial
The Memorial, which was designed by Sir Hubert Worthington, OBE, RA, FRIBA, and built by the Imperial, later The Commonwealth War Graves Commission, stands in the Medjez-el-Bab War Cemetery. The War Cemetery, three miles outside the town of the same name, is about forty miles to the south-west of Tunis and is set in a beautiful countryside with hills on two sides.
Two square stone pavilions flank the entrance gateway to the Cemetery and the Stone of Remembrance beyond, on a raised terrace at the rear of the Cemetery, stands two pergolas at each end of a long wall with the Cross of Sacrifice between. On the piers and walls of these pergolas are inscribed the names of the 1959 missing soldiers whom the Memorial commemorates, together with these words:
| This Memorial bears the names of the Soldiers Of the British Commonwealth and Empire Who gave their lives while serving in the First And Eighth Armies in Algeria and Tunisia And have no known grave 1939 1945 |
On the wall facing the Cross of Sacrifice is carved:
On this famous Battleground of the ancient |
The Memorial was unveiled on the 16th November 1957.
| The Medjez-El-Bab Memorial | |||
No. |
Rank |
Name |
Regiment |
156106 |
Major |
R C Pearce |
2nd Bn The Queen’s Royal Regt |
6087135 |
Sgt |
R Fromm |
1/7th Bn The Queen’s Royal Regt |
6088292 |
L/Sgt |
R E Butler |
1/7th Bn The Queen’s Royal Regt |
14208468 |
L/Cpl |
W Delicate |
2/5th Bn The Queen’s Royal Regt |
5444275 |
L/Cpl |
L H Hadland |
1/6th Bn The Queen’s Royal Regt |
5888261 |
Pte |
F A Barton |
1/7th Bn The Queen’s Royal Regt |
5831403 |
Pte |
E Brinkley |
2/5th Bn The Queen’s Royal Regt |
6104181 |
Pte |
J Clines |
1/7th Bn The Queen’s Royal Regt |
14388800 |
Pte |
G Cowern |
2/5th Bn The Queen’s Royal Regt |
14200448 |
Pte |
A Fountain |
2/6th Bn The Queen’s Royal Regt |
5958803 |
Pte |
T J Haley |
1/5th Bn The Queen’s Royal Regt |
5338501 |
Pte |
G Ham |
2/6th Bn The Queen’s Royal Regt |
5509841 |
Pte |
D Hughes |
1/5th Bn The Queen’s Royal Regt |
6398584 |
Pte |
C D Masters |
1/5th Bn The Queen’s Royal Regt |
6097056 |
Pte |
W Rose |
1/7th Bn The Queen’s Royal Regt |
6087098 |
Pte |
J J Sanders |
1/5th Bn The Queen’s Royal Regt |
5119706 |
Pte |
F R Webb |
1/5th Bn The Queen’s Royal Regt |
6103973 |
Pte |
H D Freestone |
The Queen’s Royal Regt |
6084328 |
Sgt |
C T Eyles |
1/5th Bn The Queen’s Royal Regt |
240259 |
Capt |
F G Coles MC |
The Queen’s Royal Regt |
6090091 |
WOII (CSM) |
F P D Straney |
2/7th Bn The Queen’s Royal Regt |
6012237 |
Sgt |
D Crozier |
1/7th Bn The Queen’s Royal Regt |
5729963 |
Pte |
C F Griffiths |
1/7th Bn The Queen’s Royal Regt |
UNKNOWN SOLDIER |
The Queen’s Royal Regt |
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