Whenever possible, these war memorials were placed within military cemeteries near the theatres of operations. During the
Battle of Monte Cassino, Cassino saw some of the fiercest fighting of the
Italian Campaign, the town itself and the dominating Monastery Hill proving the most stubborn obstacles encountered in the advance towards Rome. The majority of those buried in the war cemetery died in the battles during these months. there are 4,271 Commonwealth servicemen of the
Second World War buried or commemorated at Cassino War Cemetery. From Canada, 194 servicemembers are honoured on the Cassino Memorial. One soldier memorialized on the
cenotaph is
Yeshwant Ghadge (1921–1944), who served in the
5th Mahratta Light Infantry in the
British Indian Army. For gallantry against the enemy, Ghadge was awarded the
Victoria Cross. Another is
Dan Billany, who served in the
East Yorkshire Regiment and was also a novelist, who disappeared after escaping from enemy captivity in 1943.This cemetery also houses the body of Eric Fletcher Waters (1914–1944), father of former
Pink Floyd member
Roger Waters. ==See also==