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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
Established1956 (consecration cemetery)
Location52°44′23″N 2°01′21″W / 52.7398°N 2.0224°W / 52.7398; -2.0224
near 
Cannock, Staffordshire, England
Designed byDiez Brandi, Göttingen, Germany
Harold Doffman & Peter Leach, Stafford, England
Total burials4,929
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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