Building Name

War Memorial, Medjez-el-Bab, Tunis

Date
1957
District/Town
Medjez-el-Bab, Tunis
County/Country
Tunisia
Client
Imperial War Graves Commission
Work
New build

WAR MEMORIAL IN NORTH AFRICA - General Sir Kenneth Anderson, leader Of the First Army in the Tunisian campaign, is to unveil a Commonwealth war memorial at Medjez-el-Bab, Tunis, on November 16. The memorial has been built by the Imperial War Graves Commission to commemorate the 1,950 officers and men of the Commonwealth armies who fell during the 1942-43 operations in Algeria and Tunisia, and have no known grave. It was designed by Sir Hubert Worthington. [Manchester Guardian 26 July 1957; Page 7