Jerusalem Memorial in Jerusalem, Jerusalem District

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Jerusalem, Jerusalem District Israel

Coordinates: 31.79876, 35.24005
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The Jerusalem Memorial stands in Jerusalem War Cemetery, 4.5 kilometres north of the walled city and is situated on the neck of land at the north end of the Mount of Olives, to the west of Mount Scopus. The cemetery is found on Or'Hr Hasofim Street, sandwiched between Hadassa Hospital and the Hyatt Hotel. An Australian Memorial is opposite the cemetery entrance.

At the outbreak of the First World War, Palestine (now Israel) was part of the Turkish Empire and it was not entered by Allied forces until December 1916. The advance to Jerusalem took a further year, but from 1914 to December 1917, about 250 Commonwealth prisoners of war were buried in the German and Anglo-German cemeteries of the city.