Oued Zarga War Cemetery in Oued Zarga, Bājah

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Coordinates: 36.67690, 9.41346
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Oued Zarga is about 80 kilometres west of Tunis. The Cemetery is to the north of the church in the old village of Oued Zarga, which is on the opposite side of the road to the new town of Oued Zarga which has grown up since the building of a barrage. To reach the old village, turn left off the main road (if travelling from the direction of Medjez-el-Bab) after passing the Garde Nationale post. The road to the village is unmetalled and rather steep, and access via the unmetalled road is not suitable for buses. The distance to the cemetery is about 2 kilometres.

On 8 November 1942, Commonwealth and American troops made a series of landings in Algeria and Morocco. The Germans responded immediately by sending a force from Sicily to northern Tunisia, which checked the Allied advance east in early December. Oued Zarga was just behind the limit of the advance that winter. Oued Zarga War Cemetery contains 247 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War.