Tony Rogers: Unknown and Missing Allied Dead of the Battle of Leros

Tony

Rogers

UNKNOWN AND MISSING ALLIED DEAD OF THE BATTLE OF LEROS

Leros War Cemetery.

British prisoners of war at Lepida.

Surrendered Italians at Portolago/Lakki.

German military cemetery, Dionyssos-Rapendoza.

Temporary grave marker of 4459933

Fusilier Patrick Stewart, 2nd Battalion

The Royal Irish Fusiliers, whose body was recovered from Meravigli.

Burials below No. 4 Gun, Meravigli.

Extract from SBS after-action report by Captain H. W. (Bill) Blyth.

Approximate location of where the SBS reported burying a corporal on Hill 112 west of the Alinda–Partheni road.

Approximate location (red) where the CWGC reported finding the field grave of an unidentified corporal.

Blue = British Yellow = Italian White = Italian?

Meravigli: Approximate location of communal burial, as recorded by the CWGC.

Actual location of communal burial (circled).

The same place today.

Grave of Lieutenant Alan Phipps RN at Alinda.

Approximately where 5954469 Corporal Ernest C. Cowell, 4th Battalion, The Royal East Kent Regiment (The Buffs), was buried in (red), and where two more, unidentified, soldiers were recovered.

Albert Poulter, who survived the sinking at Leros of HMS Intrepid.