Imtarfa Military Cemetery

The Imtarfa Military Cemetery (or Ħemsija Military Cemetery) is a cemetery in Mtarfa on Triq Buqana in the Northern Region of Malta. The cemetery contains over 1,400 internments and commemorations including 254 graves of military personnel killed in the country in World War I and World War II. Many graves are marked by Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) gravestones.[1] Some of the CWGC graves are damaged due to bombing of a nearby airfield in the Second World War.[1]

Imtarfa Military Cemetery with Mdina in the background

There is one New Zealand armed forces member buried in the cemetery.[2]

The cemetery includes burials of family members of military personnel.[3]

Notable internments

Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Alexander Pollock (1888–1971) served in the Royal Scots Fusiliers in the First World War and in the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps in the Second World War. Pollock was the husband of the writers Enid Blyton, and Ida Pollock.
Captain Albany Kennett Charlesworth killed with 5 others in the Avro York crash carrying members of Winston Churchill's delegation to the Yalta Conference. Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke laid a wreath to Charlesworth a few days after the crash.[4]
Flight sergeants Charles Glanville and Wilfred Morris, who died in the 1952 Luqa Avro Lancaster crash.[5]

References

"Imtarfa Military Cemetery". Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Ian McGibbon (22 October 2014). Gallipoli - A Guide to New Zealand Battlefields and Memorials. Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. p. 189. ISBN 978-1-74348-689-4.
For example, Maud Elsie Holliday, died 1901 aged 6: http://maltaramc.com/imggraves/1895hollidayme.jpg
Richard Crowder (29 May 2015). Aftermath: The Makers of the Postwar World. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-85772-764-0.
Caruana, Richard (30 December 2012). "60 years ago: Lancaster crashes into Luqa village". Times of Malta. Archived from the original on 15 February 2020.

External links

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[cwgc-1] "Imtarfa Military Cemetery". Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

[McGibbon2014-2] Ian McGibbon (22 October 2014). Gallipoli - A Guide to New Zealand Battlefields and Memorials. Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. p. 189. ISBN 978-1-74348-689-4.

[3] For example, Maud Elsie Holliday, died 1901 aged 6: http://maltaramc.com/imggraves/1895hollidayme.jpg

[Crowder2015-4] Richard Crowder (29 May 2015). Aftermath: The Makers of the Postwar World. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-85772-764-0.

[5] Caruana, Richard (30 December 2012). "60 years ago: Lancaster crashes into Luqa village". Times of Malta. Archived from the original on 15 February 2020.