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Canterbury Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery

Coordinates: 40°14′40″N 26°16′59″E / 40.24444°N 26.28306°E / 40.24444; 26.28306
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Canterbury
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Used for those deceased Aug – Dec 1915
Established1919
Locationnear 
Gallipoli, Turkey
Total burials27
Unknowns
5
Burials by nation
Burials by war
Statistics source: Battlefields 14–18

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

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  • Cemetery details. Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
  • "Canterbury Cemetery". Battlefields 1914–1918. Retrieved 2008-07-30.
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40°14′40″N 26°16′59″E / 40.24444°N 26.28306°E / 40.24444; 26.28306