Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery

There are 2,046 military personnel of the Second World War interred in the cemetery, including 238 that remain unidentified.

There was extensive fighting between Allied and Axis forces in Egypt and Libya during the Western Desert campaign from 1940 to 1942.

A Cross of Sacrifice is centrally located and aligned with a Stone of Remembrance positioned against the west wall.

The majority of the identified interments are British, with 367 South Africans, 178 New Zealanders, 169 Australians, 141 Indians, eleven Canadians and two Greek military personnel also buried there.

[1] Notable burials in the cemetery include Colonel Graham Lyall, a First World War recipient of the Victoria Cross who was serving with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps when he died of a heart attack in November 1941,[3] and Squadron Leader Derek Ward, a New Zealand flying ace who served with the Royal Air Force.