British Cemetery (Kabul)

The British Cemetery in Kabul

The British Cemetery ( British Cemetery , also known as Christ Cemetery ) in Kabul is a cemetery for the burial of British dead and war cemetery , as well as the only Christian cemetery in Afghanistan . It is located in the Shāre Naw district and is financially supported by the British Embassy in Kabul .

The cemetery was built by the British Army in 1879 on the site of the British military camp Sherpur Cantonment after its siege for the dead soldiers of the Second Anglo-Afghan War . The site was once planted with pine trees that were felled and later replaced with peach trees. It is surrounded by a higher wall and is accessible via a pointed arched gate with a wooden door made of two wings.

There are about 150 graves in the cemetery. Buried there are, among others, the fallen of the International Security Assistance Force and tourists who traveled on the hippie trail to Afghanistan in the 1960s and 1970s and fell victim to drug use there. In addition to the British, people of other nationalities were also found in the cemetery. B. from China, Denmark, Germany, France, India, the Philippines, Poland, Russia and the United States are buried.

Plaques read “This memorial is dedicated to all those British officers and soldiers who lost their lives in the Afghan wars of the 19th and 20th centuries” and “Blessed are those who make peace; for they will be called sons of God ”. The grave of a German soldier from the Second World War is in the cemetery . The soldier was on his way to India and was ambushed.