{{Short description|Cemetery in Torino di Sangro, Italy}} {{Infobox cemetery | name = Sangro River War Cemetery | native_name = Cimitero Britannico di Torino di Sangro | alt = | image = Sangro River War Cemetery, Abruzzo.jpg | imagesize = | caption = | map_type = | map_size = | map_caption = | established = 1943 | country = Italy | location = Torino di Sangro | coordinates = {{coord|42|13|6|N|14|32|8|E|type:landmark_region:IT_dim:320|display=inline,title}} | latitude = | longitude = | type = British military | style = | owner = Commonwealth War Graves Commission | size = | graves = 2,542 | website = | findagraveid= 2153709 }} '''Sangro River War Cemetery''' ({{langx|it|Cimitero britannico di Torino di Sangro}}) is a British and Commonwealth war cemetery sited by a hillside near Torino di Sangro in the Province of Chieti, Italy.
In this cemetery are buried 2,542 soldiers from the United Kingdom and the British Commonwealth who died in World War II defending the shoreline near the Sangro River against the retreating German soldiers on the Winter Line.
Within the cemetery is the Sangro River Cremation Memorial, which commemorates 517 Indian soldiers cremated in accordance with their faith.<ref>Sangro River Cremation Memorial:{{cwgc cemetery|2019200}}</ref> The marble gravestones are arranged in such a way as to form a kind of amphitheatre.
A path follows a row of magnolias to the ''Croce del Sacrificio'' ("Cross of Sacrifice"). Another path follows a hawthorn hedge to the ''Porta della Rimembranza'' ("Door of Remembrance").
The numbers of burials are as follows:
* United Kingdom: 1,768 * Canada: 2 * Australia: 3 * New Zealand: 355 * South Africa: 74 * India: 335 * Other states: 5 * Unknown soldiers: 75
Amongst the burials lies Major John Anderson (1918–1943) who received the Victoria Cross for action at Longstop Hill, Tunisia, in April 1943.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Harvey |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bls-AQAAIAAJ&q=John+Thompson+McKellar+Anderson+sangro+river |title=Monuments to Courage: 1917-1982 |date=1999 |publisher=K. and K. Patience |language=en}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{cwgc cemetery|2021204}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20081228143918/http://www.comune.torinodisangro.ch.it/localita/cimitero_inglese.asp Torino di Sangro commune website] {{in lang|it}}
Category:World War II cemeteries in Italy Category:Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in Italy Category:Buildings and structures in the Province of Chieti