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The United Nations Memorial Cemetery is
located in Daeyon 4 Dong, Namgu, Pusan. Here lie buried
the heroic dead of many nations who gave their lives in
the cause of freedom and world peace.
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The cemetery,
comprising 14.39 hectares (about 45,000 pyong),
was established by the United Nations Command
in January 1951 when interments were begun
and remains were transferred from six other
cemeteries located at Kaesong, Inchon, Taejon,
Taegu, Miryang and Masan. It was dedicated
in April 1951.
In the cemetery, today lie the remains of
2,300 men from Australia(281), Canada(378),
France(44), the Netherlands(117), New Zealand(34),
South Africa(11), Turkey(462), the United
Kingdom(885), Norway(1), the United States(36)
and Republic of Korea(36) as well as of unknown
allied soldiers(4) and non belligerents(11).
During the period 1951~1954, remains of about
11,000 men of the United Nations Command forces
were gathered here. After that, most of the
remains of the soldiers from Belgium, Colombia,
Ethiopia, Greece, India, the Philippines,
Thailand and United States, and some of the
remains of the soldiers from France and Norway
were repatriated to their home countries.
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