A permanent memorial

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The Duke of Wellington, patron of the Trust, then CO Royal Horse Guards, salutes farewell at the 1956 funeral of Surgeon-Captain Wilson, shot dead as he was travelling to help a Greek-Cypriot family

Almost all the dead remain buried at the British military cemetery at Wayne's Keep now in the UN buffer-zone which lies between the Republic of Cyprus in the South and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in the North. Because public accessibility to Wayne's Keep is in consequence exceedingly difficult — the UN reports that on average only one visitor a week manages to get there — the permanent memorial is sited in the old British cemetery at Kyrenia.

And unlike Wayne's Keep, where a prior visitor permit is required and access is further restricted to five morninga a week and never at the weekends, the Kyrenia cemetery in the heart of the town is open all day, every day.

» Why the old British cemetery?