Beach Head War Cemetery

The Beach Head War Cemetery near Anzio is a Commonwealth cemetery of the Second World War. It contains graves resulting mostly from Operation Shingle and subsequent military actions in Italy. The cemetery contains 2,316 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 2,025 of them identified, including Victoria Cross recipient, Sergeant Maurice Rogers and British flying ace Flight Lieutenant Arthur Hodgkinson. There is also one First World War burial which was brought from Chieti Communal Cemetery near Rome. The cemetery was designed by British architect Louis de Soissons.