Canterbury Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery Explained

Canterbury
Body:Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Use Dates:Aug – Dec 1915
Established:1919
Nearest Town:Gallipoli, Turkey
Total:27
Unknowns:5
By Country:Allied Powers

27

By War:World War I

27

Source: Battlefields 14–18

Canterbury Cemetery is a small Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery located at ANZAC Cove in Turkey. It contains the remains of 27 soldiers from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. 26 were from the Canterbury Mounted Rifles and one from the Wellington Regiment. It is the only CWGC cemetery on the Gallipoli peninsula which has no epitaphs on any of the grave markers.

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