Located at an altitude of nearly 1,100 m along the road that leads to the Plateau of the Seven Municipalities, in the area of Malga Busa Fonte, in Val di Fonte.
The cemetery is situated in a clearing among the woods and pastures, downhill from the Malga di Busa Fonte, visible from the road. The territory of Calvene was a strategic logistical base during the Great War: here, in fact, the troops of the British and French armies settled to fight a trench war. Mount Cavalletto hosted an advanced operational station where serious cases of injured soldiers from the front were treated, as the descent to the main hospitals in the plain was challenging.
The Cavalletto British Cemetery is one of the five Commonwealth cemeteries of the Plateau of the Seven Municipalities - along with those of Val Magnaboschi, Barenthal, Boscon, Granezza - where the remains of around a thousand fallen soldiers are gathered, 1,024 to be exact.
The British Cemetery of Cavalletto, along with the aforementioned sites, is protected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and contains 100 burials, although some of these burials were moved to Caltrano following the armistice from the British cemetery of Monte di Sunio.
Not far away is the Granezza English Cemetery, known for the burials of brothers Edward and Vera Brittain. Almost a hundred years after the beginning of the First World War, the Anglican Community of Venice launched a fundraising appeal for the restoration of the monumental doors of the Anglican church of Saint George in Campo San Vio.
The monumental bronze doors were forged from British cannons, melted at the Italian Navy Arsenal. Next to the doors of the church of Saint George, on bronze panels, are inscribed the names of the ten cemeteries on the eastern front of the First World War that house the remains of British and Commonwealth soldiers.
The portal of the Church of Saint George was dedicated to the memory of those fallen on the Italian front by the Bishop of Gibraltar, on the occasion of Saint George's Day in 1926. On November 11, 2015, during Poppy Day, the inauguration of the church took place in Venice following the completion of restoration work, which was also attended by the Municipality of Calvene. The Municipal Administration contributed to the restoration of the monumental doors, on which the British cemetery located in the Cavalletto area is also indicated.
This act initiated a friendship relationship between the Municipality of Calvene and the Anglican Community of Venice, culminating in a visit from a delegation to Calvene. During the commemorative ceremony at the Cavalletto Cemetery, Father Levett and the archpriest of Calvene, Don Cantarello, recited an Anglican-Catholic ecumenical prayer together, each in their own language. "They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore." (Verses of the Anglican-Catholic ecumenical prayer drawn from the words of the prophet Micah.)
