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Vittener Cemetery

  • Country Lithuania
  • Total identified casualties 2 Find these casualties
  • Identified casualties from First World War
  • GPS Coordinates Latitude: 55.72328, Longitude: 21.1115
VITTENER CEMETERY - CWGC
VITTENER CEMETERY - CWGC

Location information

Vittener Cemetery will be found on the northern outskirts of the town of Klaipeda in the Republic of Lithuania. It is now a park containing a small cemetery memorial plot.

History information

Klaipeda (formerly Memel), was a Prussian town until it was annexed by Lithuania in January 1923. The cemetery contains one Commonwealth grave and a special memorial to a British soldier who died as a prisoner of war and who was buried in SZAWLI (Schaulen) GERMAN CEMETERY, but whose grave could not be found.