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German Military Cemetery, Cannock Chase

German Military Cemetery in Cannock Chase

Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery contains almost 5,000 German and Austrian graves. Following an agreement between the UK and what was then the Federal Republic of Germany in 1959, the German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgraberfursorge) made arrangements to transfer the graves of German servicemen and civilians who had died in Britain during World

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Cambridge American Cemetery

American Military Cemetery, Cambridge, UK

Cambridge American Cemetery commemorates almost 9,000 Americans who died while based in the UK, or travelling to it, during the Second World War. It is the only World War II American military cemetery in the United Kingdom. The site was established as a temporary military burial ground in 1943, on land donated by the University of Cambridge, and has been granted free use in perpetuity by HM Government

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