temporary cemetery

A cemetery for the purpose of: a. The initial burial of the remains if the circumstances permit or b. The reburial of remains exhumed from an emergency burial.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

References in periodicals archive

The French government purchased the land for temporary cemetery sites on behalf of the United States.

The beginnings of the quartermaster graves registration service: army chaplain charles c. pierce championed the proper handling of soldiers' remains after the spanish-american war and established the quartermaster graves registration service

Truscott's most moving tribute to the dogface soldiers whom he had led in combat occurred on Memorial Day, 1945, when he motored to Anzio to deliver the Memorial Day address at the temporary cemetery serving as the resting place for roughly twenty thousand men killed in the fighting during the Italian command.

Dogface Soldier: The Life of General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr

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