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South African Military Cemeteries
Ancona War Cemetery (Ancona, Ancona Province, Marche Region, Italy) - WWII Commonwealth - 79
South African, 13 Australian, Indian, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canadian, 1019 total burials, 55
Unknown.
Anzio War Cemetery (Anzio, Roma Province, Lazio Region, Italy) (see Anzio) 1,056 burials. - WWII Commonwealth - United
Kingdom, 1 South African, 1 Australian, 1,056 total burials, 19 Unknown and museum.
Arezzo War Cemetery (Pratanitico, Arezzo Province, Toscana Region, Italy) Arezzo War Cemetery
contains 1,266 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War. - United Kingdom, New Zealand, 50
South Africans. Plots VII-IX are Indian, 36 Unknown.
Argenta Gap War Cemetery (Argenta, Ferrara Province, Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy) - United Kingdom, 10 South Africans. 6 Australians, 625 total burials, 8 Unknown. WWII.
Assisi War Cemetery (Rivotorto di Assisi, Perugia Province, Umbria Region, Italy) WWII
Commonwealth - United Kingdom, New Zealand, 55 South African, 945 total burials, 3 Unknown.
Bari War Cemetery (Carbonara di Bari, Bari Province, Puglia Region, Italy) WWI and WWII
Commonwealth - New Zealand, United Kingdom, 210 Canadians, 165 South African, 45 Australian,
2218 total WWII burials, 170 Unknown. 85 WWI burials from Brindisi.
Beach Head War Cemetery (Anzio, Roma Province, Lazio Region, Italy) - WWI Commonwealth - 1
burial; WWII Commonwealth - 1,980 United Kingdom, 70 Canadian, 25 South African, 7 Australian, 4
Indian, 4 New Zealander, and 9 others, 2,316 total burials, 295 unknown.) (see Anzio)
Bologna War Cemetery (Bologna, Bologna Province, Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy) - United Kingdom, Canadian, New Zealand, 11 South Africans. 3 Australians. 184 total burials, 8 Unknown., WWII.
Bolsena War Cemetery (Montefiascone, Viterbo Province, Lazio Region, Italy) - WWII Commonwealth -
187 South African, 2 Australian, United Kingdom, Indian, Canadian, includes burials transferred from
Elba, 597 burials, 40 unknown.
Borgofranco D'Ivrea Churchyard (Borgofranco D'Ivrea, Torino Province, Piemonte Region,
Italy) WWI Commonwealth - 1 South African burial total.
Cagliari (St. Michele) Comune Cemetery (Cagliari, Cagliari Province, Sardegna Region, Italy) - WWII
Commonwealth - United Kingdom, Canadian, 6 Australian, 3 South African, 60 total, 10 unknown;
WWII German - 424 from Sardegna battles, 16 from Milis battles, 190 from Malta (moved in 1960 from
English Cemetery at Pembroke).
Caserta War Cemetery (Caserta, Caserta Province, Campania Region, Italy) - 54 South Africans, 10 Australians, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada, Total: 768 burials, 13 Unknown.
Cassino War Cemetery (Cassino, Frosinone Province, Lazio Region, Italy) (see Cassino) - WWII, 4,266 burials. - 4,266 burials. - 47 South Africans. 13
Australians.
Castiglione dei Pepoli South African Cemetery (Castiglione dei Pepoli, Bologna Province, EmiliaRomagna Region, Italy) - 401 South African, 101 United Kingdom, 502 total
burials, WWII.
Catania War Cemetery (Catania Zona Industrial, Catania Province, Sicilia Region, Italy) - WWII
Commonwealth - United Kingdom, 26 Australian, 25 South African, one Greek, 2135 total burials, 113 unknown.
Cesena War Cemetery (Cesena, Forli-Cesena Province, Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy) - WWII
Commonwealth - 5 South African, Canadian, New Zealand, 775 total burials, 3 unknown.
Coriano Ridge War Cemetery (Coriano, Rimini Province, Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy) - WWII
Commonwealth - 1,411 United Kingdom, 427 Canadians, 52 New Zealanders, 28 South Africans, 8
Indian, 1 Australian, 1 Russian, 1939 total burials, 11 Unknown.
Corva Communal Cemetery (Pordenone Province, Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, Italy) - WWI, 1 South African.
Dueville Comune Cemetery Extension (Dueville, Vicenza Province, Veneto Region, Italy) WWI Commonwealth - 1 South African, 2 French, United Kingdom, 136 total burials
Faenza War Cemetery (Faenza, Ravenna Province, Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy) - WWII
Commonwealth - 8 South Africans, 4 Australians, United Kingdom, New Zealanders, Canadians, 1152
total burials, 13 Unknown.
Florence War Cemetery (Compiobbi, Firenze Province, Toscana Region, Italy) - 1,632 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War inlcuding 217 South Africans. 6 Australians.
Foiano Della Chiana War Cemetery (Foiano Della Chiana, Arezzo Province, Toscana Region, Italy) - WWII, 256 burials, of whom 66 are South Africans.
Forli Indian Army War Cemetery (Forli, Forli-Cesena Province, EmiliaRomagna Region, Italy) - WWII Commonwealth - 30 South Africans, 1 Australian, United Kingdom, 481
total burials, 15 Unknown plus 769 Indian men listed on the Memorial.
Gradara War Cemetery (Gradara, Pesaro-Urbino province, Marche Region, Italy) WWII
Commonwealth - 14 South Africans, 2 Australians, 1 Belgian, United Kingdom, Canadian, 1191 total
burials, 4 Unknown.
Mattarello Comune Cemetery (Mattarello, Trento Province, Trentino-Alto Adige Region, Italy) WWI
Commonwealth - 1 South African, 1 UK, 2 total.
Meldola War Cemetery (Meldola, Forli-Cesena Province, Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy) - WWII
Commonwealth - 1 South African, 145 total burials.
Milan War Cemetery (Milano, Milano Province, Lombardia Region, Italy) - WWII Commonwealth - 44
South Africans, 22 Australians, United Kingdom, Indian, New Zealand, 421 total burials, 27 Unknown,
6 non-commonwealth.
Minturno War Cemetery (Marina di Minturno, Latina province, Lazio Region, Italy) - WWII, 2049 burials including 4 South Africans. 4 Australians.
Montecchio War Cemetery (Montecchio, a frazione of Montelabbate, Pesaro-Urbino province, Marche
Region, Italy) WWII Commonwealth - 6 South Africans, 289 Canadian, 284 United Kingdom, 2 Indian,
582 total burials.
Moro River Canadian War Cemetery (Ortona Porto, Chieti Province, Abruzzo Region, Italy) - Canada, 17 South Africa, United Kingdom, New Zealand, 4 Australia, 52 Unknown, 1615 total.
Naples War Cemetery (Miano, Napoli Province, Campania Region, Italy) - 1202 burials. - 22 South Africans. 3 Australians, plus other nationalities and some non-war burials.
Orvieto War Cemetery (Orvieto, Terni Province, Umbria Region, Italy) WWII Commonwealth - United
Kingdom, 3 South Africans, 190 total burials, 2 Unknown.
Padua War Cemetery (Padova, Padova Province, Veneto Region, Italy) Commonwealth - 391 United
Kingdom, 15 Canadian, 9 Australian, 26 New Zealander, 74 South African, 517 total burials, 32
Unknown, 4 other nationalities.
Ravenna War Cemetery (near Piangipani, Ravenna Province, Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy) - WWI and
WWII Commonwealth - 11 South Africans, 8 Australians, 33 total burials from WWI; 33 Jewish
Brigade, United Kingdom, Indians, Canadians, New Zealanders, 955 total burials from WWII, 63
Unknown.
Rome War Cemetery (Roma, Roma Province, Lazio Region, Italy) - WWII Commonwealth - 28 South
Africans. 4 Australians, 355 United Kingdom, 22 Canadians, 3 Indian, 10 New Zealand, 1 from
Mauritius, 2 Palestinian, 426 total burials.
Salerno War Cemetery (Montecorvino Pugliano, Salerno Province, Campania Region, Italy) - 1846 burials; 10 South Africans. 20 Australians. 1,650 UK, 30 Canadians, 3 New Zealand, 55 Indian, 111 unknown.
Sangro River War Cemetery (Torino di Sangro, Chieti Province, Abruzzo Region, Italy) - 1768 United Kingdom, nearly 400 Indian, 355 New Zealander, 77 South African, 4 Australian, 2617 total burials, 520 Indian cremations.
Santerno Valley War Cemetery (Coniale, Firenze Province, Toscana Region, Italy) WWIICommonwealth - 2 South Africans, United Kingdom, Canadians, 287 total burials, 6 Unknown.
Savona Memorial (Savona, Savona Province, Liguria Region, Italy) - WWI Commonwealth - United
Kingdom, 1 South African, 275 missing.
Staglieno Cemetery (Genova, Genova Province, Liguria Region, Italy) - WWI and WWII
Commonwealth - 9 South Africans, 13 Australians, 230 total WWI burials; 122 United Kingdom burials
from WWII.
Taranto Comune Cemetery Extension (Taranto, Taranto province, Puglia Region, Italy) WWI Commonwealth - 1
South African, Indian, Maltese, Egyptian, United Kingdom, 449 total.
Trecella Comune Cemetery (Trecella, Frazione di Pozzuolo Martesana, Milano Province, Lombardia
Region, Italy) WWII Commonwealth - 1 South African, 1 total burial.
Udine War Cemetery (Tavagnacco di Udine, Udine Province, Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region, Italy) - 415 burials. - WWI and WWII Commonwealth - 40 South Africans, 12 Australians, United Kingdom, New Zealand,
415 total burials from WWII, 14 unknown; 1 WWI burial.
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