Stories behind the soldiers buried or remembered in Cathays Cemetery, Cardiff

Cathays Cemetery in Cardiff is the third-largest cemetery in the UK and serves as the final resting place for over 700 Commonwealth and Allied servicemen and women from both World Wars. It holds the highest number of Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) war graves in Wales, with casualties spanning 1914-1918 and 1939-1945. The cemetery is notable not just for formal war graves, but also for the stories of soldiers who died of illness, in local hospitals, or during air raids on the city.