The Kalkara Naval Cemetery (or Capuccini Naval Cemetery) is a

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many death, dead people are burial, buried or otherwise entombed. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek ...

Kalkara Kalkara () is a village in the Port Region of Malta, with a population of 3,014 as of March 2014. The name is derived from the Latin word for lime (Calce), and it is believed that there was a lime kiln present there since Roman times. Kalkara ...

in the

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of Malta. The main entrance to the cemetery is at the junction of Triq Santu Rokku and Triq San Leonardu. The cemetery is divided into Protestant and Roman Catholic sections. The cemetery formerly belonged to the British

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. The cemetery contains 1085 graves of

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military personnel killed in the country in

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and

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in addition to 1,445 non military burials and 137 war graves of people of non-commonwealth nationalities. Many graves are marked by

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(CWGC) gravestones. The majority of the 351 Commonwealth burials from World War I and the 694 Commonwealth burials from World War II are buried in the Protestant section of the cemetery. It is listed Grade 1 on the

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Notable burials

*The Japanese Naval Memorial commemorates the 68 Japanese sailors who were killed in the 1917 attack on the Japanese destroyer ''Sakaki'' near Crete *

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*44 men from HMS ''Egmont'' *22 who were killed in the 1916 mine attack near Malta on HMS ''Russell''

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