Chela Kula Military Cemetery

📍 Niš, Суви До, Serbia

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Niš, the ancient capital of Serbia, was the seat of the Serbian Government from the 25th of July 1914 until November 1915, and from November 1915 to October 1918 it was in Bulgarian hands. Chela Kula Military Cemetery takes its name from the Chela Kula Military Hospital, which in turn takes its name from the "Tower of Skulls" made by the Ottoman Empire in 1809 as a warning to Serbian revolutionaries after a great defeat in the First Serbian Uprising (1804-1813). The cemetery contains French, Austrian, Hungarian and Bulgarian plots, besides Commonwealth and Serbian graves. (There was a German plot, but those graves have since been removed.) The British plot, in the South-West part, is enclosed by a low granite wall and contains the graves of 26 soldiers from the United Kingdom, seven Red Cross nurses, three sailors of the Royal Navy and three unidentified Marines. Of the 26 soldiers, 25 belonged to the Royal Army Service Corps (Mechanized Transport) and died of influenza after the Armistice with Bulgaria. Of the nurses, five belonged to the Scottish Women's Hospital. Two special memorials record the names of a sailor and a Marine, buried at Belgrade in 1915, whose graves could not be found. Thirty-eight of the British graves were brought in from Belgrade (Novo Groblje) Cemetery, Niš British Cemetery, Vranje British Cemetery, and other burial grounds.

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NURSE M. C. RYLE RUSSIAN RED CROSS 21ST FEBRUARY 1915

Nursing Sister A. Munshull Scottish Women's Hospital 21st March 1915

Nursing Sister Agnes Kerr Earl Scottish Women's Hospital 19th March 1919 Age 33

George William Adsley

1885 – 1920

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Madge Neill Fraser

1880 – 1915

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NURSING ORDERLY MADGE NEILL FRASER SCOTTISH WOMEN'S HOSPITAL 8TH MARCH 1915

Nursing Sister C. M.A Pope Voluntary Aid Detachment 25th June 1921 Age 31 In loving memory. Youngest Daughter of Rev. W. A. Pope, Born at Redbourn Vicarage Hertfordshire. Nov 21st 1889

Nursing Sister B. G. Sutherland Scottish Women's Hospital 26th September 1915 Age 43

NURSING SISTER L. JORDAN SCOTTISH WOMEN'S HOSPITAL 6TH MARCH 1915 AGE 36 GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN

HE DIED THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE DEEPLY MOURNED AND MISSED R.I.P.

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Deceased (43)

Henry Coyle

R Norbury

Margaret Caroline C. Ryle

E Edwards

Herbert Barwick

Unknown

Augusta Minshull

William Robert Dowle

Harold Hopkinson

James Henry Bowins

Herbert John Cannon

James Bertram Whitehall

T. Thompson

Agnes Kerr Earl

George William Adsley

Madge Neill Fraser

John Burns

Roger Vaughan Evans

E C Yallop

Joseph Johnson

W Caley

Unknown

Unknown

Cicely Mary Leigh Pope

Robert Gourlay Stewart

Unknown

Roy Candlin

Bessie Gray Sutherland

Ernest William Brown

John Crowle

Arthur William Gardner

A. L. Russell

William Lang

Unknown

Benjamin Haslam

Albert Charles State

Carmelo Agius

Walter Henry Murphy

Louisa Jessie Jordan

J. W. Pearce

T Bexton

Harry Bolton

Charles Clayton

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