Notes

In 1915, a military cemetery was established beside the civilian necropolis east of Mudros town, with land costs shared with the British. After the war, French Lemnos burials were reinterred at Seddul-Bahr following pressure from Dardanelles veterans, who successfully opposed consolidation at Salonika. Of 632 French war dead at Mudros, 133 were repatriated to France and 499 now lie in the French national cemetery on the Gallipoli Peninsula. East Mudros Military Cemetery is today administered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and contains no French war graves.

A French memorial remains at the site. Construction began in late December 1915, with stone quarried locally and bronze plaques cast by craftsmen drawn from military personnel. A team of around 15 men worked to complete the monument before the Mudros base closed, but it was unfinished when the base quit in late February 1916. A detachment of three officers and 27 men stayed behind to complete it. The monument – a gabled pedestal on a broad square plinth supporting a squat obelisk – bears two plaques: one placed during a 1930 veterans’ pilgrimage led by General d’Amade, the first commander of the Corps expéditionnaire d’Orient; a second dated 14 July 2008.