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| | Levantine testimony 18 |
 | | Men of HMS Julius, HMS Iron Duke, HMS Benbow, Irish Guards, Australian Infantry, Royal Naval Air Service, Gordon Highlanders, Norfolk Regiment, Royal Field Artillery, Indian Army…The altar like stone of Remembrance names those buried in distant cemeteries, or without graves. |
 | | Nearby, ‘Sergeant William Lyne, Royal Engineers, for 54 years custodian of this cemetery.’ Florence Nightingale, we are told, saved his life in her Scutari hospital by delegating a nurse to sit with him to see he did not choke on his swollen tongue. |
 | | ‘Charles Nollet, Lieut, RN, late of HMS Albion…died at the Royal Naval Hospital, Therapia, January 1855’. |
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