Commonwealth War Graves Dueville Extension

Commonwealth forces were at the Italian front between November 1917 and November 1918, and rest camps and medical units were established at various locations in northern Italy behind the front, some of them remaining until 1919. From April 1918 to the early months of 1919, the 9th, 24th and 39th Casualty Clearing Stations occupied the village school at Dueville and used the extension to the communal cemetery for the burial of those who died of wounds or disease. The cemetery now contains 134 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, some of which were brought into the cemetery from other burial grounds after the Armistice and in the following years. The extension also contians two French war graves.

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Source

• Text: Bas Sjoerts + Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Bas Sjoerts (1, 2, 4), Commonwealth War Graves Commission (3)