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| Saltwell Park 2026 Dedication Service |
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Saturday, 31 October 2026
Saltwell Park 2025-Field of Remembrance
Friday, 9 October 2026
Italy 2026
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| Pompei IJ |
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| Cassino |
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| Monte Cassino |
Thursday, 8 October 2026
Italy 2026 - Cassino German Military Cemetery
The Cassino German Military Cemetery is the resting place of German soldiers killed during the battles for the Salerno Beachhead, the Withdrawal to the Gustav Line and the battles for the town of Cassino and the Monte Cassino Monastery.
They fell in the battles for the beachhead in the Gulf of Salerno, during the retreat along the Adriatic coast and in the battles for the town of Cassino and the Benedictine monastery of Monte Cassino.
The cemetery was inaugurated on May 4, 1965 following the reburial of casualties concentrated from smaller cemeteries and scattered field graves.
The cemetery is located in the village of Caira, three kilometres north of the town of Cassino on the slopes of Colle Marino. It contains 20,100 graves, of which 3,100 are unknown. It is laid out in terraces and there is a memorial hall which lists 911 casualties with no known grave.
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| German Military Cemetery Entrance |
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| German Military Cemetery |
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| German Military Cemetery |
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| German Military Cemetery |
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| German Military Cemetery |
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| German Military Cemetery |
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| German Military Cemetery Grave Cross |
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| German Military Cemetery Memorial of those with no graves |
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| German Military Cemetery |
Italy 2026 - Polish Memorial Monte Cassino
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| Polish Memorial Cassino IJ |
The Polish War Memorial is located on the slopes of Point 445, in view of the Monastery of Cassino which was captured by the Polish forces on the morning of the 18th May 1944.
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| Polish Troops Monte Cassino 1944 |
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| Polish Memorial Monte Cassino |
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| Polish Memorial Monte Cassino |
The cemetery contains the graves of 1,072 soldiers, the majority from the Polish 2nd Army Corps who raised the Polish flag when they secured the monastery.
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| Polish Flag Monte Cassino May 1944 |
The first casualties were interred in 1944 and the cemetery was completed in 1946. The official consecration of the site took place on September 2 1945.
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| Polish Memorial Consecration 2 Sep 1944 |
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| Polish Memorial Monte Cassino |
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| Polish Memorial Monte Cassino |
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| Polish Memorial Monte Cassino |
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| Polish Memorial Monte Cassino PolishGrave |
The cemetery is the resting place of General Władysław Anders, commander the Polish forces that captured Monte Cassino, who died in 1970.
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| Polish Memorial Monte Cassino General Władysław Anders Grave |
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| Polish Memorial Monte Cassino |
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| Polish Memorial Monte Cassino Adrian Dave R Dave M IJ |
Italy 2026 - Abbey of Monte Cassino
The Abbey of Monte Cassino was established in 529. The current monastery is a reconstruction of an abbey built post 1349. During World War Two the monastery was reduced to ruins in February 1944 as a prelude to the Second Battle of Monte Cassino.
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| Abbey Of Monte Cassino |
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| Abbey Of Monte Cassino |
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| Abbey Of Monte Cassino Entrance IJ |
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| Abbey Of Monte Cassino Entrance |
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| Abbey Of Monte Cassino Mosaic |
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| Abbey Of Monte Cassino Cloisters |
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| Abbey Of Monte Cassino Cloisters |
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| Abbey Of Monte Cassino Cloisters |
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| Abbey Of Monte Cassino |
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| Abbey Of Monte Cassino |
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| Abbey Of Monte Cassino |
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| Abbey Of Monte Cassino |
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| Abbey Of Monte Cassino View to Polish Memorial |
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