Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Location:  Route de sidi achour,  Annaba, Algeria
(400 metres off of Route N44, between Annaba and Constantine, on the road to Saraidi).

Annaba: known as Bône during the period of French colonization,
               is a city in the northeastern corner of Algeria near the river Seybouse
               on the Mediterranean Sea.

This cemetery contains:
1     WW I  Commonwealth burial (transferred from Bone Communal Cemetery);
and
868 WW II Commonwealth burials.

There are also 14 non-war burials, mostly of merchant seamen, whose deaths
were not due to war service.

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.

Bone was occupied by Allied forces on 12 November 1942 and became
important as a supply port, and for its airfield.

The 70th General Hospital was there during the early months of 1943.

Sourced and submitted by Julianne T Ryan.  28/11/2014.  Lest we forget.