Lives of the First World War

Wilfred Axon is commemorated on the Haidar Pasha Memorial. CWGC records tell us this Memorial "stands within the war graves plot of Haidar Pasha Cemetery and commemorates more than 30 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War who died fighting in South Russia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, and in post Armistice operations in Russia and Transcaucasia, whose graves are not known." Actually Wilfred Axon's grave was at Tiflis British Cemetery, Tbilisi although it no longer exists. One reliable source (see below dated 2014) states "While in Tbilisi I tried to check out a story I half-remembered reading a few years ago: that somewhere in the city there was a British war cemetery. Any enquiries I'd made on previous visits had drawn a blank. A post-Soviet memorial to British war dead stands in Tbilisi I had more luck this time. The British Embassy directed me to a private house. As is often the case in the Caucasus, the garden was surrounded by a high fence. Only when a woman from the family who lived there opened the gate and showed me the way to the monument did I realise that I was in the right place. There was a simple inscription on the monument: '1914-1918. In memory of those men of the British Army, the Royal Navy and the Indian Army who died in service in this region, and were buried nearby. Their glory shall not be blotted out.' "

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