Commonwealth War Cemetery, Chattogram

Memorial · Chattogram, Chattogram

The Second World War cemetery of Chattogram: some seven hundred graves from the Burma-front campaigns, laid out in the 1940s and kept since by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to its unmistakable standard - clipped lawns, flowering borders and ranks of identical headstones climbing a gentle slope in the middle of the roaring city. The dead are British, Indian, African, Australian, Canadian, Dutch, Japanese and more; the register in the entrance alcove names them all. It is small, free, immaculate and quietly devastating - the port city's most serious half hour.

Badsha Mia Road, Dampara, Chattogram, Chattogram, Bangladesh

Open daily through daylight gate hours, roughly 8 AM to 5 PM, free of charge year-round; morning is the quiet hour, November the remembrance season. The register and visitor book sit in the entrance alcove.

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