Military cemetery of Gammarth
The military cemetery of Gammarth is a military cemetery French created the January 5th 1944 with Gammarth (Tunisia). It occupies a surface of 7 Hectare S on the heights of the city. It is maintained by the Service the war veterans the embassy France.
It is affected at the origin with the nonMoslem soldiers of the troops of North Africa fallen during the Campagne from Tunisia which took place of the November 19th 1942 with the May 13rd 1943. After the regrouping of the various military squares of the communal cemeteries between 1966 and 1968, of the combatants fallen during other battles (First World War, Second world war and War of Indo-China) there are buried, that is to say on the whole 1875 bodies resting in individual tombs.
It includes/understands also an ossuary - 23 Cercueil S containing of the collective bones and 1220 boxes of unknown bodies - and a Columbarium builds in 1971 (1403 bodies).
After the accession with the independence of Tunisia in 1956, several monuments are transferred there:
- the tomb of the Unknown soldier of the countryside of Tunisia
- the monument with the Irregular forces of Africa
- the Memorial and the ossuary of the crew of the Underwater cast Morse with broad of Sfax the June 17th 1940
- the War memorial the of Hammamet
- of many commemorative plaques recovered in the military closed down churches, schools and squares, the last brought back in October 1993 bearing the names of the dead soldiers to Sousse between 1881 and 1889