The Evangelical section of Turin's cemetery houses the graves of artists, members of the business community and well-known leading figures of the Protestant world, but also those of the sixteen British and Australian soldiers who died during the First World War.

The young soldiers had been posted to  the Eastern front and were admitted to  the Red Cross’s Stationary Hospital n. 29 detachment in the Pozzo Strada neighbourhood in Turin following wounds or illness. Their story remained unknown until recently, so much so that for many years the sixteen were considered "non-existent", almost ghosts.

According to  the rules of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, adopted in 1917 on  Fabian Ware’s suggestion, the soldiers were buried in a small rectangular area of plot 88 identified by sixteen vertical gravestones in white limestone -marble or Portland Stone. Below their Regiment’s symbol rank, name, unit, date of death, approximate  age and religious symbol (the Cross). At the foot of the tombstone some have an epitaph.