Lorraine M
Title for image: the Memorial at Ayun Kara
Describe the image: A little dilapidated and worse for wear, the negative of the image above was rediscovered in July 2008. It is a picture of the Memorial at Ayun Kara - one of very few images known to exist of this site. NZMR troopers and members of the local Jewish community attend the memorial service of the first anniversary of the battle that had taken place on the 14th November 1917. A short time after this service the CWGC moved the men from the battlefield and re-interned them at the Ramleh Cemetery. The memorial site of Ayun Kara was forgotten and years later no one was sure of where the actual site had been, the memorial obelisk had disappeared. Destroyed by whom and when, nobody knows.. The Association understands that the New Zealand and Israeli governments intend to re-establish the memorial again on the old battlefield sometime in the near future. Photograph taken by Trooper Charles Broomfield - permission given by the Cato family, Ohaupo.
Where did your information come from?: http://www.nzmr.org/ayunkara.htm
File created: 14 January 2016