Canterbury Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
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Canterbury Cemetery is a small
Commonwealth War Graves Commission The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations mil ...
cemetery located at ANZAC Cove in
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. It contains the remains of 27 soldiers from the
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. 26 were from the
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Mounted Rifles and one from the
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Regiment. It is the only CWGC cemetery on the Gallipoli peninsula which has no epitaphs on any of the grave markers.


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