Cemetery Sangro River

Cemetery Sangro River (Cimitero britannico di Torino di Sangro) is a British and Commonwealth war cemetery sited by a hillside near Torino di Sangro in the Province of Chieti, Italy.

In this cemetery are buried 2,616 soldiers from the United Kingdom and the British Commonwealth who died in World War II defending the shoreline near the Sangro River against the retreating German soldiers on the Winter Line.

The marble gravestones are arranged in such a way as to form a kind of amphitheatre.

A path follows a row of magnolias to the Croce del Sacrificio ("Cross of Sacrifice"). Another path follows a hawthorn hedge to the Porta della Rimembranza ("Door of Remembrance").

The numbers of burials are as follows:


 * United Kingdom: 1,768
 * Canada: 2
 * Australia: 3
 * New Zealand: 355
 * South Africa: 74
 * India and Pakistan: 335
 * Other states: 5
 * Unknown soldiers: 75

An inscription records that the cremated remains of a further 517 dead from India are also here.

Sources and external links

 * Torino di Sangro commune website