War Graves
The Cemetery contains the war graves of 39 Commonwealth service personnel, 29 from World War I and 10 from World War II, registered and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The oldest of those buried is Major-General Sir John Munro Sym (died 3 October 1919) aged 80.
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