El Qantara, Egypt
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El Qantara
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El Qantara (
Mubarak Peace Bridge. The bridge makes a connection between the division of Africa, and Asia, making El Qantara a Border town
.
History
El Qantara was built next to a site of an ancient city Sele (
Ancient Egyptian: Ṯȝrw Tcharou).[1]
During
Sinai Campaign of 1916
. The massive distribution warehouse and hospital centre supported and supplied all British, Australian and New Zealand operations in the Sinai from 1916 until final demobilization in 1919.
Beginning in January 1916, a new railway was constructed from Kantara to Romani, and eastward through the Sinai to
El Arish and Rafa on the border with the Ottoman Empire. A water pipeline was constructed along the same route by the Royal Engineers under the command of Brigadier General Everard Blair.[2]
The
the cemetery contains 1,562 Commonwealth burials from World War I and 110 from World War II. There are also 341 war graves of other nationalities. The Kantara Memorial bears the names of 16 New Zealand World War I servicemen presumed killed in action at Rafa and Rumani. In 1961, panels bearing the names of 283 World War I Indian servicemen, interred in the now inaccessible Kantara Indian Cemetery, were affixed to the wall behind the Stone of Remembrance, forming the Kantara Indian Cemetery Memorial.The town's importance as a hospital centre was renewed during World War II when General Hospital No. 1 was located there from July 1941 to December 1945, and General Hospitals Nos. 41 and 92 at different periods. No. 8 Polish General Hospital was constructed adjoining the war cemetery.
During the
1967 Six Day War, Israel captured the town. Egypt recaptured it at the start of the 1973 Yom Kippur War during The Crossing
, and held it until the ceasefire was negotiated. Egypt regained formal control over the town in 1974.
30°51′N 32°19′E / 30.85°N 32.31°E
See also
References
- ^ "TM Places". www.trismegistos.org. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
- ^ Lewis P (2014) For Kent and Country, pp.104–107. Brighton: Reveille Press.
- ^ Dictionary of Scottish Architects: Robert Lorimer