- Nagaland’s Kohima War Cemetery with a tennis court has figured in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s (CWGC) five sites with unusual features.
- The Kohima War Cemetery has a feature that is possibly not shared by any other cemetery in the world: A tennis court.
- The Kohima War Cemetery is one of 23,000 World War graves across the continents maintained by the CWGC.
- The Kohima War Cemetery is a memorial dedicated to the soldiers of the second British Division of the Allied Forces who died in World War II at Kohima in April 1944.
- The soldiers died on the battleground of Garrison Hill in the tennis court area of the Deputy Commissioner’s residence.
- Designer Colin St. Clair Oakes incorporated the tennis court into the design of the cemetery.
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