Le Grice, Le Grys et al.

The site for the cemetery was chosen in November 1944 and it contains the graves of casualties incurred during the advance from Ancona to Rimini, which broke the German's heavily defended Gothic Line, and in the heavy fighting around Rimini, which was taken by the Allies on 21 September 1944.

Gradara War Cemetery contains 1,191 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, including the grave of CORPORAL E. LE GRICE, THE ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT 9TH SEPTEMBER 1944, AGED 26. IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR BELOVED SON WHO GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY. R.I.P.

(Grave Ref. II, B, 16.)