[1][2] "Heliopolis (Port Tewfik) Memorial" was relocate here and unveiled by the Indian Ambassador to Egypt in October 1980 after the original memorial at Port Tewfik at the South end of the Suez Canal was demolished due to severe damage during the 1967 Israeli-Egyptian conflict and 1973 Yom Kippur War.
It commemorates 4,000 men who served and died with the British Indian Army during the WWI in Egypt and Palestine, and who have no known grave.
The panels bearing the names, erected in the entrance pavilions to Heliopolis War Cemetery, were unveiled by the Indian Ambassador to Egypt in October 1980.
1,742 Commonwealth casualties of WWII are buried or commemorated there, and it contains 83 war graves of people of other nationalities.
The panels bearing their names is erected in the pavilions to the rear of Heliopolis War Cemetery.