A quiet Commonwealth war cemetery on a wooded slope in Dampara, where some 730 servicemen of the Second World War lie.
The Chattogram War Cemetery was laid out after the Second World War by the British Army and is cared for by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. It began with about 400 graves, and many more were later brought in from smaller burial grounds across the region.
About 730 Commonwealth servicemen are buried here — men from Britain, undivided India, Canada, Australia and New Zealand — along with a small number of foreign nationals, among them Japanese soldiers. A metal gate between two small brick chapels leads up a tarmac lane to the Cross of Sacrifice and the neat rows of headstones, shaded by fruit and flowering trees.
It is a place of remembrance rather than an attraction, and visitors are expected to keep it quiet.
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