Cemetery Details

Cemetery:	SFAX WAR CEMETERY
Country:	Tunisia
Locality:	unspecified
Visiting Information:	The cemetery gates are not locked, so it is possible to visit the cemetery, including Saturdays and Sundays, when it is unstaffed. However, the register and visitors' book will not be available outside normal working hours, as they are kept locked in the gardeners toolshed. The gardeners hours of work are: (Summer Hours) July: Monday - Thursday 06:30 - 14:30 Friday 07:00 - 14:00 August: Monday - Thursday 07:00 - 14:00 Friday 07:00 - 13:00 (Winter Hours) September - June: Monday - Thursday 07:00 - 12:00 and 13:00 - 17:00 Friday 07:00 - 12:00 and 13:00 - 16:00 Month of Ramadan: Monday - Friday 07:00 - 14:00
Location Information:	The town of Sfax is 270 kilometres south of Tunis. The War Cemetery lies within the enclosure of the civil cemetery, 2 kilometres south of the town centre on the road to Gabes. It has a private entrance on the main road.
Historical Information:	In May 1943, the war in North Africa came to an end in Tunisia with the defeat of the Axis powers by a combined Allied force. In the south, the Axis forces defeated in Egypt at El Alamein withdrew into Tunisia along the coast through Libya, pursued by the Allied Eighth Army. Most of those buried in Sfax War Cemetery died in attacks on successive Axis positions at Medenine, the Marith Line and Wadi Akarit, in March and April 1943. The cemetery contains 1,253 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 52 of them unidentified. The single First World War grave in Sfax War Cemetery was brought in from Bizerta Sidi Saleru Moslem Cemetery in March 1983. There is also 1 Greek soldier of the 1939-45 war buried here.
No. of Identified Casualties:	1203