Zemschug Grave Marker, Pulau Jerejak

Zemschug Grave Marker (29 April 2004)


Zemschug Grave Marker is located at the site of the Tuberculosis Hospital on Pulau Jerejak. It marks the grave of two Russian soldiers who were killed when their ship was attacked by the German ship Emden off the coast of Penang Harbour one morning in 1914. According to a history enthusiast whom I spoke to, the names of the two Russian soldiers remained unknown.

The Zemschug Grave Marker is one of the two grave stones to the sailors who died in the attack. The other grave stone is the Zemschug Memorial at the Western Road Cemetery.