Pietà Military Cemetery

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Pietà Military Cemetery in Pietà, Malta, is a burial ground for military personnel and their dependants. It is located in the south western suburbs of Valletta, on a minor road (Triq id-Duluri). The following are cared for by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC):

1303 First World War commonwealth casualties buried or commemorated at the Cemetery (including 20 Indian servicemen and labourers of the Indian Army who were cremated at Lazaretto Cemetery) 166 Second World War burials 772 non-war graves in the cemetery 15 war graves of other non-Commonwealth nationalities. A large number of Australian and New Zealand service personnel are buried in the cemetery, the highest concentration on Malta. The first British serviceman buried at the cemetery was a group of British soldiers buried in 1866. The majority of those interred and remembered at the cemetery are casualties of the two World Wars (but mainly the First World War), many in communal graves. The last identifiable servicemen or dependant buried at the site is hard to ascertain as this is a mixed civilian and military cemetery. The cemetery did not escape the aerial bombardment that Valletta and its environs experienced in...