Clothed by evergreen and flowering shrubs, the cemetery is located in the city on a hilly site on seven acres of land near Chittagong Art College just overlooking Finlay hills. It looks like a natural amphitheatre.

But it bears the memory of love and tears. The bodies of 755 warriors of Second World War were laid to rest here. The graves were marked by bronze plaques.

Those buried here were from the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, West Africa, East Africa, Myanmar (Burma), The Netherlands and Japan.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission bears the expenditure for maintenance of this cemetery, officials said.

About Tk 70,000 are spent a month to keep up this cemetery, Chittagong War Cemetery manager Md.Abu Sayeed said.

Foreigners mostly the Britons and the kith and kin of the dead warriors visit this cemetery to pay tributes, Sayeed said.

The cricketers of England team who came here for a test match recently, visited the cemetery, he said.

A British woman accompanied by her husband visited the grave of her warrior father I.A.F.M. Crispe who served under Royal Engineers, Sayeed said. She burst into tears while placing wreaths at the burial plaque. She took picture of her father's grave from Chittagong War Cemetery, he added.

The plaque on her father's grave reads-"In loving memory of a good father and husband, Sleep beloved, take thy rest". Those words were written on the plaque after burial at the request of the warrior's family members.

However, several hundred people mostly the young ones throng the scenic spot for a break as the port city lacks suitable park for recreation. During the first half of the day, college and university going boys and girls arrive at this spot for gossiping or passing some time with their fiance and fiancee.

Besides visitors, irrespective of age and sex crowd the war cemetery, thinking it as a park just to take free air, witnesses said.

"The visitors are not allowed to sit inside the park and eating or smoking is totally prohibited for the sake of keeping it neat and clean, Sayeed said. They can just either move around or gossip standing beside the trees or greenery and nothing else," he said.

Three sentries and some gardeners look after the cemetery, he said. "The cemetery area is a bit secure."