Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery

Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery
Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves Commission; for the German War Graves Commission; (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge)
	Used for those deceased 1914–18 and 1939–45
Established	1956 (consecration cemetery)
Location	52.7398°N 2.0224°W; near Cannock, Staffordshire, England
Designed by	Diez Brandi, Göttingen, Germany; Harold Doffman & Peter Leach, Stafford, England
Total burials	4,929
Unknowns	5 (World War I);; 90 (World War II)
Burials by nation
	German Empire (World War I); Nazi Germany (World War II);
Burials by war
	2,143 (World War I); 2,786 (World War II);
	Statistics source: See references

The Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery (grid reference SJ984157) is on Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, England. The cemetery contains nearly 5,000 burials from both the First and Second World War. The burials are mainly German and Austrian nationals with a very small number of Ukrainians.

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