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Komen, Austro-Hungarian military cemetery WW1

The Austro-Hungarian military cemetery is in the Forest of Draga, near Komen. From Cirje the road leads past a roadside religious symbol to the Forest of Draga, where there are the remains of the cemetery of World War I.
The cemetery is in the burial ground of Austro-Hungarian soldiers who died in fighting on Soča (Isonzo) front from 1915 to 1917. According to data from the Viennese war archives, 4,130 soldiers of various nationalities are burried in this cemetery.

Author: Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs-Section of Military Burial Grounds

 

IBT Program Research February 2019