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Canterbury Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery

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Established
  
1919

Total burials
  
27

Location
  
near Gallipoli, Turkey

Unknown burials
  
5

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.

References

Canterbury Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery Wikipedia