Nairobi War Cemetery
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| Nairobi War Cemetery | |
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| Commonwealth War Graves Commission | |
.jpg) The cemetery on Remembrance Day 2012 | |
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| Used for those deceased | |
| Established | 1941 |
| Location | 1°18′32.5″S 36°44′52.4″E / 1.309028°S 36.747889°E near Nairobi, Kenya |
| Designed by | G. Vey |
| Total burials | 1942 (cemetery) |
Unknowns | 11 |
| Burials by nation | |
Allies of World War II:
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| Burials by war | |
World War II: 1942 | |
| Statistics source: at cwgc.org | |
The Nairobi War Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of the Second World War located in Nairobi, Kenya.[1]
The cemetery was opened in 1941, and is the largest war cemetery in East Africa. It houses the graves of casualties from the East African campaign, some of which were transferred from civil cemeteries and temporary army burial grounds in other parts of Kenya.[2]
Nairobi was the operational headquarters of the British Middle East Command during the East African campaign, and the base for the conquest of Jubaland and Italian Somaliland.[citation needed]
The cemetery was the location of two field hospitals, No. 87 which operated from June 1943 to December 1945, and No.150 British General Hospital, which operated for a period in 1943.
