Freetown (King Tom) Cemetery- Travel Tips

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Freetown (King Tom) Cemetery in Sierra Leone is a significant historical site, serving as the final resting place for Commonwealth servicemen and civilians from both World Wars. This cemetery, established when Freetown was a strategic naval base, contains 248 Second World War burials, including two unidentified, and 129 First World War graves, many linked to a 1918 epidemic. It also has 135 non-war burials and 21 war graves of other nationalities, with a memorial honoring 35 casualties whose original graves in Sierra Leone could not be maintained.