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Zomba King's African Rifles Cantonment Cemetery

  • Country Malawi
  • Total identified casualties 49 Find these casualties
  • Identified casualties from Second World War
  • GPS Coordinates Latitude: -15.39723, Longitude: 35.30428

Location information

The King's African Rifles Cantonment Cemetery is located inside the Zomba Army Barracks locally known as Cobbe Barracks which is 2kms south of Zomba, on the Blantyre road.

Visiting information

Zomba King's African Rifles Cantonment Cemetery is open every day between 06:00 and 18:00.

History information

There are 51 Commonwealth burials of the 1939-1945 war commemorated in this site, 1 of which is unidentified. There are also 10 non world war burials, 2 of which are unidentified.

The cemetery also contains the Zomba Memorial, which commemorates 125 members of the East African Forces who died in Malawi during the Second World War, whose graves could not be maintained.