Grave Locations - Uganda
RED - this indicates those cemeteries that have been completed.
BLUE - this indicates those cemeteries that have been offered for completion
BLACK - this indicates those cemeteries that have yet to be completed.
Total Australian War Graves in Uganda - 2 Graves
Cemetery/Memorial
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No.
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Volunteer
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Status
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TORORO CEMETERY |
2 |
Debby Cox, Director of Chimpanzee Welfare Africa Programmes, The Jane Goodall Institute. With the assistance of the Australian High Commission Nairobi |
Complete |
Visiting Information:
As the cemetery has no permanent staff, it is kept locked with coded padlock. If you are intending to visit this site, the code to the padlock can be obtained from our office in Kenya on 00 254 2038 70594.
Location Information:
Tororo is located on the eastern side of Uganda only 5 kilometres from the border with Kenya, on the main road from Kampala to Nairobi. The cemetery is on the road into town close to the airstrip. The cemetery is set well back from the road, and the turn into the grassed track leading to it is indicated by a road direction sign.
Historical Information:
During the Second World War, Tororo was a large recruiting and training centre for the East African Military Labour Service. Tororo Cemetery contains 159 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, most of them in the African war section. Others are in the European and Muslim civil sections. There is also one burial from the First World War which was brought in from an isolated position near Moroto in 1960.
(Information: Commonwealth War Graves Commission)
Please contact the Archive Director for details and photographic requirements
australianwargraves@bigpond.com