Fajara War Cemetery
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The Fajara War Memorial or Fajara War Cemetery is a military cemetery in the West African state of Gambia .
description
It is located on the eastern side of Kairaba Avenue (also Pipeline Road ), which leads from the center of Serrekunda to Fajara, a district of Bakau . The rectangular area is around 94 meters deep and 40 meters wide. Shortly behind the entrance there is a six-meter-wide archway that directs the eye to a Christian cross in the back .
It commemorates the Allied soldiers who died between 1939 and 1945 during the Second World War , when the Gambia was still a British crown colony , and the soldiers of the British Commonwealth of Nations . 200 soldiers are buried, including Australian , New Zealand and Canadian . One of them is not identified. The archway at the entrance is intended to commemorate the 33 fallen Gambians who are buried elsewhere.
Web links
- At http://www.roll-of-honour.com: the Serjeants Ronald Ingram Cosson
- At http://www.cjc.ca ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ): Shulman Josephs
- At http://www.australianwargraves.org ( memento of October 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ): two Australian soldiers
- At http://www.nzafmp.org ( memento from April 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ): two New Zealand soldiers
- Thought at http://www.mapleleaflegacy.org: ten Canadian soldiers
Coordinates: 13 ° 27'59 " N , 16 ° 41'24" W.