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Imtarfa Military Cemetery

Ħ'Attard, Italy

Imtarfa Military Cemetery

The Imtarfa Military Cemetery (or Ħemsija Military Cemetery) is a cemetery in Mtarfa on Triq Buqana in the Northern Region of Malta. The cemetery contains over 1,400 interments and commemorations including 254 graves of military personnel killed in the country in World War I and World War II. Many g

raves are marked by Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) gravestones. Some of the CWGC graves are damaged due to bombing of a nearby airfield in the Second World War. There is one New Zealand armed forces member buried in the cemetery, and a single Dutch war grave. There are 1,203 non war graves within the cemetery. They include pre and post WW1 and WW2 military burials and family members of military personnel. An example is Maud Elsie Holliday who died 1901 aged 6.

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