Hargeisa War Cemetary (Commonwealth War Graves)

Hargeisa, Somaliland, Somalia

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The Hargeisa War Cemetery is a small Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery located in Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland (a self-declared state internationally recognized as part of Somalia), that contains 115 Commonwealth war graves from World War II, mostly soldiers who died in June 1940 during the British campaign against Italian forces in British Somaliland.

The cemetery serves as the final resting place for British and Allied personnel who fell in the short but significant Battle of British Somaliland, when Italian forces briefly occupied the territory before the Allies retook it later in the war. Maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the site is kept in careful accordance with CWGC standards and stands as one of the few visible WWII memorials in the Horn of Africa, quietly honoring those who died fighting for control of this strategically important region.