Wagga Wagga War Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (C.W.G.C.) site and is located in the south west corner of the Wagga Wagga Cemetery. It contains 82 war burials comprising 40 Australian Army and 42 RAAF airmen. Many of the airmen died in air training accidents, while 26 members of the School of Military Engineering buried here died on the same day in a mine training accident. Each grave is marked with a Commission headstone, inscribed with the veteran's military service details and the emblem of their service branch. The cemetery is surrounded by a brick and iron fence and is planted out with Australian vegetation. In the centre of the area is a Cross of Sacrifice.
The Daily Advertiser (Wagga Wagga), 4 September 1948 published a tender notice from the Imperial War Graves Commission for general construction at the site comprising concrete beams, kerbing, brick and concrete rail fence, general fencing; fabrication and delivery of stonework for the cross; and provision of concrete foundations and erection of the cross.
Sherry Morris has published a history of the Kapooka military training accident entitled 'The Kapooka Explosion, 21 May 1945'. The author states: "In 1999 significant improvements were made to the War Cemetery as part of the refurbishment of rural cemeteries throughout Australia by the Federal Government's commemorative program, 'Their Service - our Heritage'. In the following year, an information board on the accidents and photographs of the funeral was unveiled at the War Cemetery by the Minister of Veteran's Affairs, Bruce Scott, Sheila Oehmn and the Kapooka Commandant Colonel Michael Craine."
Apart from this information board, which is titled 'Largest Military Funeral in Australia: Wagga Wagga's saddest day', there is a plaque listing the war burials in the general cemetery for the First and Second World Wars.