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Commonwealth War Cemetery Köln Südfriedhof

Cologne War Cemetery lies within a large civil cemetery known locally as Köln Südfriedhof. There are now 2,482 First World War servicemen buried or commemorated in the Commonwealth plots at Cologne, all of them POW's. The Commonwealth section of the cemetery also contains 132 Second World War graves, mostly those of servicemen who died with the occupying forces. There are, in addition, 676 non-war graves and 29 burials of other nationalities.

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Source

  • Text: TracesOfWar & Commonwealth War Graves Commission
  • Photos: Patrick Mestdag