Bilbao British Cemetery
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Bilbao British Cemetery is located in Sondika, in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country, northern Spain.
The cemetery contains a Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery (maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission) with 58 casualties. These casualties include servicemen from Poland, as well as persons from the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations. Service personnel from both the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force are buried here. Most of the dead are from World War II
The cemetery can be found on the main round out of Sondika (formerly Sondica) towards Derio. The cemetery is set back from the road and is now hidden by new housing. A Remembrance Day service is held every year.
The cemetery contains the grave of a merchant seaman buried at first in the Town Cemetery at Ondarroa, on the coast of the Bizkaia, and then in the old British Protestant Cemetery (created about 1775 and disaffected in 1929).
[edit] External links
- CWGC cemetery register: Details • Reports • Plans • Photographs
- (Spanish) SONDIKA in the Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia (Euskomedia Fundazioa)
