[1] It is located in the south western suburbs of Valletta, on a minor road (Triq id-Duluri).

[2] The following are cared for by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC):[3] A large number of Australian and New Zealand service personnel are buried in the cemetery, the highest concentration on Malta.

The last identifiable servicemen or dependant buried at the site is hard to ascertain [opinion] as this is a mixed civilian and military cemetery.

The cemetery did not escape the aerial bombardment that Valletta and its environs experienced in WW2, and in April 1941 a Bomb Disposal team was called to deal with eight UXBs that had impacted in the graveyard.

[6] Malta's CWGC Cemeteries became the centre of a controversy when the then Prime Minister of Malta Dom Mintoff was recorded as considering doing away with the island's war cemeteries in 1978; the threat was never carried out.