Fort Benning Main Post Cemetery

GPS Coordinates: 32.380302, -84.953086
County: Muscogee
Record count: 14,737

Ownership: Office of Army Cemeteries, U.S. Army

Directions: Located at the very southern tip of Columbus' city limits, the cemetery sits at the south-east corner of Fort Benning Rd and Custer Rd.

Background: Fort Benning Main Post Cemetery is one of the largest Army Post cemeteries, and remains open for new burials, averaging 169 interments per year. As of May 2023, the 8.38 acre cemetery contains over 11,000 soldiers including (3) Medal of Honor awardees and their dependents. The cemetery is also the final resting place of 4 Chinese allied pilots, 7 Italian and 44 German prisoners of war who died in captivity at various military camps nearby and brought to Fort Benning for burial during World War II.

Burial Records

• View All Transcriptions Combined, 14,737 records
  • Office of Army Cemeteries, by Interment.net, September 5, 2025, (11,464 records)
  • Veterans Affairs Database, by Interment.net, April 17, 2025, (3,273 records)

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