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Directions
Nicosia War Cemetery and the co-located Wayne’s Keep Military Cemetery (more familiarly known as
Wayne’s Keep) are 4 kilometres west of Nicosia, on the Myrtou road, and inside the United Nations buffer
zone. See Visiting Information at end of chapter.
The Cemetery in Context
This is actually one large burial ground, which has evolved into two different areas. Nicosia War Cemetery
contains 219 burials from the Second World War, and Wayne’s Keep contains service graves from 1948 to
1960, including 371 service burials from the Cyprus Emergency.
Nicosia War Cemetery
Nicosia War Cemetery as established in 1940 by the Imperial War Graves Commission (now known as
the Commonwealth War Graves Commission) for the burial of service personnel and their dependants
who died while on duty in Cyprus.
As with the First World War, the cut-off date for burials from the Second World War in Commission
cemeteries around the world was extended, in this case to 31 December 1947, 18 months after the end
of hostilities.1
The 213 British and Commonwealth burials in this cemetery, neatly spaced in Plots 1 – 6 around a Cross
of Sacrifice, cover the years 1940 to 1947. Their names and individual casualty records are commemorated
online on the CWGC website. There are also six German burials cared for by the CWGC, in Plot 18.
1 Summers, Julie (2007), Remembered – The History of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (London and New York:
Merrell), p. 31
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