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Sangro River War Cemetery

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Sangro River War Cemetery
Sangro River War Cemetery
Sangro River War Cemetery
Sangro River War Cemetery
Sangro River War Cemetery
Sangro River War Cemetery
Sangro River War Cemetery
Sangro River War Cemetery
Sangro River War Cemetery
Sangro River War Cemetery
Sangro River War Cemetery
Sangro River War Cemetery
Sangro River War Cemetery
Sangro River War Cemetery
Sangro River War Cemetery
Sangro River War Cemetery
Sangro River War Cemetery
Sangro River War Cemetery
Sangro River War Cemetery
Sangro River War Cemetery
Sangro River War Cemetery
Sangro River War Cemetery
Sangro River War Cemetery
Sangro River War Cemetery
Sangro River War Cemetery
Phone:
+39 0873 913121

Address:
Contrada Sentinelle, 66020 Torino di Sangro, Italy

Sangro River War Cemetery is a British and Commonwealth war cemetery sited by a hillside near Torino di Sangro in the Province of Chieti, Italy. In this cemetery are buried 2,542 soldiers from the United Kingdom and the British Commonwealth who died in World War II defending the shoreline near the Sangro River against the retreating German soldiers on the Winter Line. Within the cemetery is the Sangro River Cremation Memorial, which commemorates 517 Indian soldiers cremated in accordance with their faith.The marble gravestones are arranged in such a way as to form a kind of amphitheatre. A path follows a row of magnolias to the Croce del Sacrificio . Another path follows a hawthorn hedge to the Porta della Rimembranza . The numbers of burials are as follows: United Kingdom: 1,768 Canada: 2 Australia: 3 New Zealand: 355 South Africa: 74 India and Pakistan: 335 Other states: 5 Unknown soldiers: 75Amongst the burials lies Major John Thompson McKellar Anderson who received the Victoria Cross for action at Longstop Hill, Tunisia, in April 1943.
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