British Garrison Cemetery

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British Garrison Cemetery, also known as the Kandy Garrison Cemetery, is a small historic British burial ground in Kandy, Sri Lanka. It was started in 1817 after the British captured Kandy and was used for British people who died in Ceylon. The cemetery closed in 1873 because burials inside the town limits were banned, though relatives could be buried there with special permission; the last burial was Annie Fritz in 1951. It contains 195 graves of men, women and children, many from tropical diseases such as malaria and cholera, and covers about 0.3 hectares (0.74 acres).

The site was restored in 1998 with funds from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and is now cared for by The Friends of the British Garrison Cemetery in Kandy. The cemetery sits on land belonging to the nearby Sri Dalada Maligawa (Temple of the Tooth) and is maintained by the British, while the temple’s Diyawadana Nilame and chief prelates oversee the land. On 22 July 2011 it was declared an Archaeological Protected Monument by the Sri Lankan government. Prince Charles (now King Charles III) visited the graves in November 2013.