The Commonwealth Cemetery, situated on the south-east of Rinella, once belonged to the Admiralty. A metal plate fixed at its entrance gives a description of Malta’s wartime experiences and reveals that buried in cemeteries throughout the Maltese Islands, lie nearly 2000 servicemen from World War I and 1500 from World War II.

The Commonwealth Cemetery is divided into two sections; one for Roman Catholics and another for Protestants. It contains 477 WWI graves and 719 WWII graves where some 2625 persons are buried therein – commonwealth servicemen burials account for 351 from World War I and for 694 from World War II. Non-commonwealth nationals buried there amount to 137 and 1443 are non-war burials. Most of these graves are marked by recumbent markers and complimented with carved inscriptions. Furthermore there are two memorials; one for German prisoners of the First World War, and another in memory of 66 Japanese naval personnel who lost their lives in the Mediterranean during WWI. On the 18^th November 1973, the Deputy Prime Minister and the Japanese Ambassador H.E. Harumi Takeuchi unveiled anther monument to replace the original one set up in 1919.