Posted on 01/26/2023 8:41:28 AM PST by euram
The Gaza War Cemetery is one of two belonging to the CWGC in this tiny Palestinian territory. It contains graves for 3,691 dead - 3082 British, 263 Australians, 184 Turkish (Ottoman), 50 Indians, 36 Poles, 23 Canadians and 23 New Zealanders as well as smaller numbers who were South African, Greek, Egyptian, German, French, Yugoslavian or not identifiable.
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Something similar, perhaps even more remarkably, continues in Waziristan and some of the other tribal provinces of Northwest Pakistan, where the graves of British troops who died in various uprisings before independence are lovingly tended by local tradition.
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