Port Tewfik Memorial

Port Tewfik Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The Port Tewfik Memorial in December 1957
For officers and men of the Indian Army killed who gave their lives on the Sinai Peninsula in World War I
Established	1926
Unveiled	1926, destroyed 1967 & relocated
Location	29°57′43″N 32°33′30″E / 29.9620°N 32.5582°E / 29.9620; 32.5582Coordinates: 29°57′43″N 32°33′30″E / 29.9620°N 32.5582°E / 29.9620; 32.5582 near Suez, Egypt; later relocated to Cairo Heliopolis
Designed by	John James Burnet, Thomas S. Tait, Charles Sargeant Jagger
Total burials	over 4000
Total commemorated	4000
Burials by nation
India
Burials by war
First World War
Statistics source: CWGC

The Port Tewfik Memorial (also known as the Indian War Memorial) was originally situated at Port Tewfik (or Port Taufiq), now called Suez Port, on the Suez Canal. It was unveiled in May 1926 for the Imperial War Graves Commission (now Commonwealth War Graves Commission) and commemorated 4,000 officers and men of the Indian Army killed during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign during the First World War. The original memorial was designed by Scottish architects John James Burnet and Thomas S. Tait, and included sculptures by British sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger.

The memorial was destroyed by retreating Egyptian troops during the Six-Day War of 1967 and later relocated to the Heliopolis War Cemetery on Nabil el Wakkad Street in the Heliopolis district of Cairo. Panels bearing the names of the fallen have been mounted in the entrance pavilions to the War Cemetery.

The modern Heliopolis War Cemetery also contains: