The Port Tewfik Memorial stands at the southern entrance to the Suez Canal, a monument to Indian soldiers who died in the First World War while serving in the Middle East campaign. The memorial is unusual in its location — at the junction of two seas — and in the mixture of military histories it embodies. It commemorates a campaign that is largely forgotten outside specialist circles but which was fought across Palestine, Sinai, and the canal zone with considerable cost.
The memorial is in the Port Tewfik district of Suez, which was itself heavily damaged during the 1973 war. Walking around the waterfront here gives a physical sense of how close the fighting came to the canal. The area has been partially rebuilt but retains a frontier character.