Commonwealth War Cemetery Le Petit Lac

Allied troops made a series of landings on the Algerian coast in early November 1942. From there, they swept east into Tunisia, where the North African campaign came to an end in May 1943 with the surrender of the Axis forces. The assault landings in the harbour at Oran failed, with heavy casualties, but landings east and west of the port were successful. Le Petit Lac Cemetery contains 200 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 50 of them unidentified and ten war graves of other nationalities. There are also 14 non-war burials, all of merchant seamen whose deaths were not due to war service. The cemetery also contains ten First World War burials.

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• Text: Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• Photos: Commonwealth War Graves Commission