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Kandy War Cemetery

Kandy, Sri Lanka

Kandy War Cemetery
Kandy War Cemetery. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

The Kandy War Cemetery, formerly known as the Pitakande Military Cemetery, is a British military cemetery in Kandy, Sri Lanka, for soldiers of the British Empire who were killed during World War II as well as a soldier who died during World War I. The cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) maintained burial site for soldiers. There are 203 buried consisting of: 107 British, 35 East Africans, 26 Sri Lankans, 23 Indians, 6 Canadians, 3 Italians, 1 Frenchman and 2 unidentified persons, Of the 203 dead, 151 were army, 32 were air force, 16 were navy, 2 were unidentified, 1 was merchant navy and 1 was from the national fire service.

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

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