El Alamein has a war museum with collectibles from "the civil war" and other North African battles.
Visitors can also go to the Italian and German military cemeteries on Tel el-Eisa Hill outside the town. The German cemetery is an ossuary, built in the style of a medieval fortress.
The Italian cemetery is a mausoleum containing 5,200 tombs. Many tombs bear the soldier's name; many are simply marked IGNOTO, ie. unknown.
There is a separate Greek cemetery at El Alamein.
There is also a Commonwealth war cemetery, built and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, with graves of soldiers from various countries who fought on the Allied side. Buried here are 6,425 identified Commonwealth service personnel and 815 unidentified ones, besides 102 of other nationalities. These include four Victoria Cross recipients:
- Private Percival Gratwick, Australian Imperial Force
- Private Arthur Stan Gurney, Australian Imperial Force
- Sergeant William Bill Kibby, Australian Imperial Force
- Private Adam Wakenshaw, Durham Light Infantry
Others buried here include
- Squadron Leader George Barclay, RAF Battle of Britain fighter pilot
- Major Henry Rew, Royal Tank Regiment England rugby international
This has monuments commemorating Greek, New Zealand, Australian, South African, Indian and Canadian forces. The cemetery entrance is through the Alamein Memorial and there is also a separate Alamein Cremation Memorial to 603 Commonwealth service personnel who died in Egypt and Libya and were cremated in line with their religion.
The names of 213 Canadian airmen appear on the Alamein Memorial in Egypt.
The cemetery was designed by Sir J. Hubert Worthington.