Hello wozcay,

were they the Cavanagh sisters Catherie & Marie ??

maybe some of our readers can help you with that if you give more information about them as someone 'out there' may also know of them

kind regards

Hello 'ngairedith',

Thanks reply, Yes they are:

Catherine Elizabeth Mary CAVANAGH b.1933-d.1935 ABBASSIA Cairo EGY.
Marie Elizabeth CAVANAGH b.1935-d.1935 ABBASSIA Cairo EGY.
Daughters of Sgt. Joseph CAVANAGH 1st. SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS and Theresa Rita CLEARY.

All postings to date on various Sites fail here. Should I insert more date information do you think?

Appreciating your kindly advice.

Regards.

I would add as much information as you know, names, dates and anything else that could make anyone reading this recognise who you are talking about...

Entering their parents names was a good idea

How many children did they have?
Why did Elizabeth die so young?
Why was Joseph in Egypt?
Where did he and Theresa marry? etc etc

They very well could be on someones family tree if you give enough info that they are 'recogised'

Hi, There were seven of us in all with self and Bro. surviving today.
Dad was Stationed in Cairo and we living there as Family. They were married in ALDERSHOT DEPOT UK. Catherine caught a fever and succumbed, Marie had birth complication and only lived 1.5 Hrs. We had also lost a Bro, b.1931 living only four days so sadness great to this day! We are in other Family Trees but only as result of my searches and updating theirs I'm afraid.

Thanks again you interest, I'll edit with new data in case? Appreciated!

Hello Wozcav, I always thought that only muslims were buried at the old citadel and everyone else was buried at the New British Protestant. So I've learn't something from you. I have a friend from Cairo I will ask him tomorrow, he may know of some way of getting details. 1935 before the war. I don't envy you your task.

so that other readers can read about and become informed about the
CAIRO CITADEL ... The Saladin Citadel of Cairo is a medieval Islamic fortification in Cairo, Egypt.
The location, on Mokattam hill near the center of Cairo, was once famous for its fresh breeze and grand views of the city.
It is now a preserved historic site with mosques and museums

The Citadel is sometimes referred to as Mohamed Ali Citadel because it contains the Mosque of Muhammad Ali of (or Mohamed Ali Pasha), which was built between 1828 and 1848, perched on the summit of the citadel.
This Ottoman mosque was built in memory of Tusun Pasha, Muhammad Ali's oldest son, who died in 1816. However, it also represents Muhammad Ali's efforts to erase symbols of the Mamluk dynasty that he replaced ...

There are two other mosques at the Citadel, the 13th/14th c. hypostyle Al-Nasir Muhammad Qala'un Mosque from the early Bahri Mamluk period, and the 16th c. Mosque of Suleyman Pasha, first of the Citadel's Ottoman-style mosques

The citadel also contains museums:
* Al-Gawhara Palace museum
* Carriage Museum
* the National Military Museum, and the Police Museum.

the SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS were in Cairo until the outbreak of WWI when they were dispatched to France with the Dehradun Brigade

the 2nd CAMERONIANS

the ALDERSHOT MILITARY MUSEUM (Queens Avenue, Aldershot
Hampshire GU11 2LG) is housed in the only surviving brick-built barrack blocks left in Aldershot, the museum tells the story of daily life for both soldier and civilian since 1854

OF INTEREST
The Cairo War Memorial Cemetery which is within the Old Cairo cemetery area, which is situated approximately 5km south east of the centre of Cairo.
The cemetery area is on the south side of the road Salah Salem, which runs west/east from the River Nile towards the green park area approximately 2km beyond and eventually towards the Citadel.
The cemetery is surrounded by a high wall and the double entrance gates are along Sharia Abu Safein. This road is parallel with the railway line which runs south from Cairo main station and both railway and Sharia Abu Safein cross over the main road. Access up to Sharia Abu Safein is by using the northside ramp above the main road underpass, on the east side of the railway.

At the outbreak of the First World War Cairo was headquarters to the United Kingdom garrison in Egypt. With Alexandria, it became the main hospital centre for Gallipoli in 1915 and later dealt with the sick and wounded from operations in Egypt and Palestine. General Headquarters, Middle East Command, was set up in Cairo shortly before the Second World War, remaining there throughout the war years. In January 1941, a Royal Air Force Sector Headquarters for Fighter Defence Canal Zone was established.
Cairo was again a significant hospital centre during the Second World War.
Cairo War Memorial Cemetery was formerly part of the New British Protestant Cemetery, but plots B, D, F, H, K, M, O, P and Q were ceded to the Commission in 1920.
Some graves were brought into these plots from elsewhere in the Protestant cemetery and in 1960, 85 First World War graves were concentrated from Minia War Cemetery, 200 km south of Cairo, where maintenance could not be assured. One burial of the Second World War was also moved later from Old Cairo Old Latin Cemetery for the same reason. There are now 2,057 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War and 340 from the Second World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. A small number, known to have been buried in other civil cemeteries in Cairo but whose graves are now lost, are commemorated by special memorial. Burials in the following civil cemeteries are now alternatively commemorated in Cairo War Memorial Cemetery: Cairo (Basatin) Jewish Cemetery Old Cairo Jewish Cemetery Cairo Maronite Cemetery Cairo Civil International Cemetery Old Cairo New Latin Cemetery

Overseaas BDM records

some further info on an earlier post at RootsChat.com by wozcav

Thanks both of you, I'll acept any advice from the 'Cairo' resident if available and appreciate your submission Janilye. The overview is here noted Ngairedith and will now allow meaningful writeups in our Family-Profiles!

I may be wrong re. burial within the Citadel but, as we lived there, I'm assuming it took place so. My late Bro Served in Suez and took photos during Leaves, sad to say I never copied as I should have done. He died in Italya few years back and I've not been able to access his effects to see if he still had them and so the search goes on! The Consulars demand a very high price for Record search and this might yet be my ony solution though not always successful in this!