Florence War Cemetery

Florence War Cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Used for those deceased 1944
Established 1944
Location 43°46′10″N 11°20′36″E / 43.76944°N 11.34333°E / 43.76944; 11.34333
near Fiesole, Tuscany, Italy
Designed by Louis de Soissons
Total burials 1632
Unknown burials 120
Burials by nation
Burials by war
Statistics source: CVGC.org

Florence War Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of World War II located in Italy near Florence in the locality Girone-Compiobbi (municipality of Fiesole), close to the Arno river.

History

In November 1944 the site was selected and was originally intended for the soldiers who had died in the hospitals in and around Florence. The majority of the graves are occupied by soldiers who lost their lives fighting in the Florence area after it was captured by allied forces in August 1944. The town was in the middle of the Arno Line, defensive positions formed by the retreating German forces, and the bodies of the soldiers killed during fighting from July to September 1944 are buried here.[1]

83 graves from the nearby Arrow Route Cemetery were moved here after the war.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 11 March 2011.

External links

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