Canterbury Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery

Canterbury
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Used for those deceased Aug - Dec 1915
Established	1919
Location	near Gallipoli, Turkey
Total burials	27
Unknown burials	5
Burials by nation
Allied Powers: New Zealand: 27
Burials by war
World War I: 27
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

• • Cemetery register: Details
  • Reports
  • Plans
  • Photographs. Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
• "Canterbury Cemetery". Battlefields 1914-1918. http://battlefields1418.50megs.com/canterbury_cemetery.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-30.