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Taranto Town Cemetery Extension, Italy
Taranto Town Cemetery Extension, Italy
Taranto Town Cemetery Extension, Italy The Italians entered the war on the Allied side, declaring war on Austria, in May 1915. 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. Taranto was used as a base by the Royal Navy immediately after the Italian declaration of war, but its importance to Commonwealth troops dates from the summer of 1917, when the Mediterranean lines of communication were established. These lines ran from the eastern theatres of war through Taranto, Turin, Lyons and Le Mans to Cherbourg. A base and rest camp were made at Taranto and labour units, including the 8th, 10th and 11th Battalions, British West Indies Regiment, were brought in. No 79 General and No 6 Labour Hospitals followed. The Town Cemetery was used for Commonwealth burials from June 1915 to April 1919, but as early as January 1918, it became necessary to open a military extension. After the Armistice the 102 Commonwealth burials in the town cemetery were removed to this extension, and the grave of one sailor was brought in from Trani Communal Cemetery in 1958. There are now 449 Commonwealth burials of the First World War in the extension. There is also 1 Non World War burial.
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Died 1918
British Army 15316 Private British West Indies Regiment 11th Battalion
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Born 1898
Died 1918
British Army 11761 Private British West Indies Regiment 8th Battalion
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Died 1919
British Army 15830 Private British West Indies Regiment 11th Battalion
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Died 1918
British Army 14391 Private British West Indies Regiment 10th Battalion
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Born 1898
Died 1918
British Army 16815 Private British West Indies Regiment 11th Battalion
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Died 1918
British Army 13274 Private South Lancashire Regiment
British Army 489207 Private Labour Corps
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Born 1890
Died 1918
British Army 13522 Private British West Indies Regiment
British Army 13522 Lance Corporal British West Indies Regiment 10th Battalion
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Born 1881
Died 1918
British Army 9773 Private British West Indies Regiment 7th Battalion
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Born 1895
Died 1919
British Army 7883 Private British West Indies Regiment 7th Battalion
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Born 1886
Died 1919
British Army 13800 Private British West Indies Regiment 10th Battalion
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Born 1895
Died 1918
British Army 13573 Private British West Indies Regiment 10th Battalion
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Born 1891
Died 1918
British Army 6110 Private British West Indies Regiment 5th Battalion
Other Empire Force 4891 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 6110 Private British West Indies Regiment 4th Battalion
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Born 1897
Died 1919
British Army 11617 Private British West Indies Regiment 8th Battalion
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Born 1894
Died 1919
British Army 14108 Private British West Indies Regiment 10th Battalion
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Born 1897
Died 1918
British Army 16410 Private British West Indies Regiment 10th Battalion
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Died 1919
British Army 14221 Private British West Indies Regiment 7th Battalion
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Died 1918
British Army 6120 Labourer Maltese Labour Corps 2nd Battalion
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Born 1897
Died 1919
Other Empire Force 8033 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 10335 Private British West Indies Regiment 7th Battalion
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Died 1919
British Army 13780 Private British West Indies Regiment 10th Battalion
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Born 1873
Died 1918
British Army S/10660 Private Cameron Highlanders
British Army 10660 Lance-Corporal Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders 2nd Battalion
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