Beach Head War Cemetery

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Beach Head War Cemetery
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Beach Head War Cemetery
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Location
Via Nettunense, 60, 00042 Anzio, RM, Italy
Country Italy
Coordinates 41°28′55″N12°37′30″E / 41.482°N 12.625°E / 41.482; 12.625
Owned by Commonwealth War Graves Commission
No. of graves2,316
Website CWGC official website
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The Beach Head War Cemetery near Anzio is a Commonwealth cemetery of the Second World War. [1] It contains graves resulting mostly from Operation Shingle and subsequent military actions in Italy.

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The cemetery contains 2,316 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 2,025 of them identified, [2] including Victoria Cross recipient, Sergeant Maurice Rogers [3] and British flying ace Flight Lieutenant Arthur Hodgkinson. [4] There is also one First World War burial which was brought from Chieti Communal Cemetery near Rome. [5]

The cemetery was designed by British architect Louis de Soissons. [1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Beach Head War Cemetery at CWGC website" . Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  2. ↑ "List of buried at CWGC website" . Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  3. ↑ "Maurice Albert Windham Rogers at CWGC website" . Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  4. ↑ "Flight Lieutenant Arthur John Hodgkinson". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 17 November 2024.
  5. ↑ "Silbert George Ellis at CWGC website" . Retrieved 21 April 2020.
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