Nassau War Cemetery
Also known as Royal Air Force Cemetery
Nassau, New Providence District, Bahamas
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Sixty Commonwealth War dead of the First and Second World Wars are commemorated in the Nassau War Cemetery, The cemetery also contains two non-World War graves, those of Hilary St George Saunders CBE MC, the official RAF Historian and Group Captain L W Brabizon Rees, VC, OBE, MC, AFC, both of whom died after the end of the Second World War.
In the entrance to the Cemetery are bronze panels forming part of the local war memorial erected by public subscription and which bear the names of airmen with no known grave who were killed while based in The Bahamas.
During the Second World War, Oakes Field was used by the Royal Air Force as a training base. Ali of the casualties commemorated in the Cemetery were airmen, including síx Czechs, who were serving in the RAF and who died ferrying aircraft or whilst on training duty. The other casualties include two from the Canadian Army, a South African and five contingents of the local Bahamian forces, two of the latter being from the First World War.
Sixty Commonwealth War dead of the First and Second World Wars are commemorated in the Nassau War Cemetery, The cemetery also contains two non-World War graves, those of Hilary St George Saunders CBE MC, the official RAF Historian and Group Captain L W Brabizon Rees, VC, OBE, MC, AFC, both of whom died after the end of the Second World War.
In the entrance to the Cemetery are bronze panels forming part of the local war memorial erected by public subscription and which bear the names of airmen with no known grave who were killed while based in The Bahamas.
During the Second World War, Oakes Field was used by the Royal Air Force as a training base. Ali of the casualties commemorated in the Cemetery were airmen, including síx Czechs, who were serving in the RAF and who died ferrying aircraft or whilst on training duty. The other casualties include two from the Canadian Army, a South African and five contingents of the local Bahamian forces, two of the latter being from the First World War.
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Nassau, New Providence District, Bahamas
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- Added: 29 Jul 2003
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 1967496
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