New European Cemetery, Djibouti

The majority of CWGC graves in the cemetery commemorate airmen killed in the country in World War II.

[1][2] It is located 150 meters from a dirt road off the N2 from Djibouti–Ambouli International Airport.

It is located behind a wall and not visible from the main road.

[2] Amongst the graves is that of Humphrey Arthur Gilkes (1895–1945), who received the Military Cross four times for his actions in the First World War.

The Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot Officer Lawrence Robert Maguire is buried in the cemetery.

A joint Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa , British Army and the Commonwealth service remembering fallen service members at the cemetery on Remembrance Sunday , 2012.