Additional Information:

Son of Thomas Bethel Toop and Alice Elizabeth Toop, of Botanic Gardens, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.

Cemetery:

SUEZ WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY, Egypt

Grave Reference/
Panel Number:

C. 55.

Location:

Suez War Memorial Cemetery is situated on the western outskirts of the town, about 3 kilometres from the town centre towards the main Cairo to Suez road.

Historical Information:

Suez was important in the 1914-1918 War as a hospital centre. It already possessed an Egyptian Government Hospital; and there were sent to the town, at different times, two Indian General Hospitals, two Stationary Hospitals, and Casualty Clearing Stations for British and enemy sick and wounded. On the West side of the town are Protestant, Catholic, Greek, Coptic and Jewish Cemeteries; and the first War burials took place in a special plot in the Protestant Cemetery. The separate War Memorial Cemetery was established in 1918, in the immediate neighbourhood of the other burial grounds; and after the Armistice there were transferred to it the graves from the Protestant Cemetery and 58 from other places of burial. There are now 514, 1914-1918 and 377, 1939-1945 Commonwealth war casualties commemorated here. Of these 1, 1914-18 and 1, 1939-45 casualties are unidentified. Also commemorated here are 15 Foreign National and 41 non-world war casualties.