English cemetery - Scutari Florence Nightingale base during the Crimean War, is still in existence. Scutari was the Greek name for the district of Istanbul now known as 鈤kar (pronounced ewskewdar). Just to your right as you face the main entrance to the former General Hospital there is a signposted path leading down towards the sea to the British Cemetery. The first part of the cemetery holds Queen Victoria monument and some marked war graves. Many of the gravestones tell a sad and evocative tale. Old Mr. Ward, storekeeper at the Barrack Hospital, and Mrs. Ward died of cholera within a few days of each other. A young man was being invalided home but was killed in a collision at sea. The son of a peer died at Scutari of wounds received at the battle of Balaclava. And so on. Under the extensive unmarked turf also lie many of the nearly 5000 British ordinary soldiers who died of wounds or sickness in the Barrack and General Hospitals nearby. This cemetery in Florence Nightingale day occupied a beautiful spot on a cliff overlooking the Bosphorus. Now it overlooks the shipping terminal and railway tracks, except that a screen of rather scruffy trees obscures the view. From this first cemetery a path leads further south to another cemetery containing military dead from later wars and a large number of graves of local British residents. 固opFoto