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Commonwealth War Cemetery Watchfield

(UK: England - Oxfordshire - Watchfield)

The military cemetery was opened towards the end of 1939. It contains the graves of 19 servicemen who died during the 1939- 1945 war, and this total is made up by 10 soldiers and 3 airmen belonging to the forces of the United Kingdom; 1 airman of the Royal Canadian Air Force; 1 airman of the Royal Australian Air Force; 1 soldier of the South African forces and 3 Polish airmen. Originally there were also a Belgian soldier and two Italian soldiers buried here, but after the war their remains were exhumed, the Belgian for repatriation and the Italians for re-burial in the Italian section of Brookwood Military Cemetery.

Source

• Text: Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• Photos: Commonwealth War Graves Commission