{"id":12418,"date":"2023-06-24T02:44:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T21:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12418"},"modified":"2025-04-01T19:06:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:36:03","slug":"heliopolis-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/heliopolis-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Heliopolis Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Heliopolis Memorial:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is part of the larger <strong>Heliopolis Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This memorial commemorates the memory of 3,727 <strong>Indian soldiers<\/strong> who died fighting in various campaigns in <strong>Egypt and Palestine in the First World War<\/strong>. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The original Port Tewfik memorial had been unveiled in 1926 and was situated at the entrance to the Suez Canal.<\/li>\n<li>The memorial was destroyed in the Israeli-Egyptian War of 1967 by retreating Egyptian soldiers and a new memorial was erected in Heliopolis Commonwealth War Grave Cemetery in 1980.<\/li>\n<li>The Indian troops played a key role in <strong>securing the Suez Canal<\/strong> in Egypt and in Palestine, where Indian cavalry participated in <strong>the Battle of Haifa<\/strong> and also played a <strong>key role in Mesopotamia<\/strong> in the First World War.<\/li>\n<li>Port Tewfik is now known <strong>as Port Suez<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about Port Suez<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in Egypt along the <strong>northern coastline of the Gulf of Suez.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The port and city mark the southern terminus of the Suez Canal, which runs north-south through Egypt from the Mediterranean Sea to the Gulf of Suez.<\/li>\n<li>The port serves vessels transporting general cargo, oil tankers, and both commercial and private passenger vessels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the significance of the Suez Canal?<\/h3>\n<p>The Suez Canal is an artificial waterway located in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. It provides a crucial shortcut for international maritime trade, allowing ships to avoid the lengthy and perilous journey around the southern tip of Africa, known as the Cape of Good Hope.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-global\/pm-modi-egypt-heliopolis-memorial-history-8682314\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>PM Modi in Egypt: What is the Heliopolis Memorial for Indian soldiers who fought in World War 1?<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heliopolis Memorial is part of the larger Heliopolis Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}