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Sherpur Cantonment

Kabul, Afghanistan

Sherpur Cantonment
Sherpur Cantonment. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

Sherpur Cantonment, or the British Cemetery, is located in Kabul, Afghanistan. The area was a British military camp or cantonment and the site of the 1879 Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment in the Second Anglo-Afghan War. Now officially called the Christian Cemetery, it is known locally as the Kabre Gora, or the 'foreigners' graveyard'.

Cemetery data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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