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BARI WAR CEMETERY
Carbonara
Italy

Location Information

This cemetery is located on the outskirts of Bari in the locality of Carbonara. 

Take the tangenziale which is part of the SS16, skirting Bari, and which is accessed from the autostrada A14. From the tangenziale take the SS100 south to Taranto at exit 13B. About 3 kilometres from exit 13B turn right to Carbonara. Then a left turn will eventually arrive at the cemetery (about 1.5 kilometres from the SS100). 

If travelling by train, alight at Bari Centro Station and take a taxi to the cemetery. 

Cemetery address: Via Antonia Quaranta - 70012 Carbonara di Bari (BA) Puglia. 

GPS Co-ordinates: Latitude: 41.064841, Longitude: 16.894704. 


Visiting Information

The cemetery is permanently open and may be visited anytime but is kept locked with a pad lock to prevent stray dogs entering the cemetery. The combination to unlock the padlock is 1221. 

Wheelchair access is possible via the main entrance.  


Historical Information

On 3 September 1943 the Allied invasion of the Italian mainland began with landing in the south near Reggio and, a few days later, in the Gulf of Salerno. The invasion coincided with an armistice made with the Italians who then re-entered the war on the Allied side. Allied objectives were to draw German troops from the Russian front and more particularly from France, where an offensive was planned for the following year.

The site of Bari War Cemetery was chosen in November 1943. There was no serious fighting in the vicinity of the town, which was the Army Group headquarters during the early stages of the Italian campaign, but it continued to be an important supply base and hospital centre, with the 98th General Hospital stationed there from October 1943 until the end of the war. At various times, six other general hospitals were stationed at Trani and Barletta, about 48 km away.

Besides garrison and hospital burials, the cemetery contains graves brought in from a wide area of south-eastern Italy, from the 'heel' right up to the 'spur'. Here too are buried men who died in two disastrous explosions in the harbour at Bari, when ammunition ships exploded in December 1943 (during a German air raid) and April 1945.

Bari War Cemetery contains 2,128 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 170 of them unidentified. There are also some non war burials and war graves of other nationalities.

The cemetery also contains 85 First World War burials, brought in from Brindisi Communal Cemetery in 1981. Most of these burials are of officers and men of the Adriatic drifter fleet which had close associations with Brindisi during the First World War.



Cemetery pictures used with the permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Picture
PLY/X 4097 Marine
Robert William Hadfield
No. 40 R.M. Commandos, Royal Marines
22nd December 1944.
Plot XI. C. 37.



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