Guards - U.K. Cemeteries list

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    MAIDSTONE CEMETERY, KENT
    • Country: United Kingdom
    • Locality: Kent
    • Historical Information: The depot of the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment was at the barracks at Maidstone during both wars and during the Second World War numerous units of the armed forces were grouped in this part of Kent when it was expected that the Germans would attempt an invasion. Like the rest of Kent, Maidstone and the surrounding district suffered much damage and many casualties from the constant attention from enemy planes and long range shore guns across the Channel. Nearby Detling aerodrome was one of the RAF's fighter airfields as was West Malling aerodrome. Both were put out of action for short periods during the Battle of Britain. Maidstone Cemetery contains 176 burials of the Second World War, more than half of them in a war graves plot in Section CC. The plot also contains 17 German and 1 Dutch grave. Special memorials commemorate 7 men who were among 16 killed by a bomb at Detling aerodrome in August 1940. They are buried in adjacent graves but could not be individually identified. The 52 First World War burials are scattered throughout the cemetery.
    • No. of Identified Casualties: 247

    1. ABNETT, JOHN J GUARDSMAN - Coldstream Guards 2667804 16.11.1947
    2. DOVE, ROY HORACE ROBERT R H R GUARDSMAN ATTD. H.Q. 5TH GUARDS ARMD. BDE. Grenadier Guards 2616282 09.09.1943
    3. ROSE, ALFRED EDWARD A E GUARDSMAN 1ST BN. Coldstream Guards 2659091 04.02.1942
     
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    MANCHESTER (GORTON) CEMETERY
    • Country: United Kingdom
    • Locality: Lancashire
    • Historical Information: During the First World War, Manchester contained between thirty and forty war hospitals, including the 2nd Western General Hospital and the Nell Lane Military Hospital for prisoners of war. Many of those buried in the cemeteries and churchyards of the city died in these hospitals. During the Second World War, there was a Royal Air Force Station at Heaton Park, Manchester. There are now 69 First World War casualties and 88 from the Second World War buried or commemorated in Manchester (Gorton) Cemetery. The burials are scattered throughout the cemetery and a Screen Wall bears the names of 15 First World War casualties whose graves could not be individually marked. There are also three Special Memorials commemorating casualties whose graves in Gorton (Brookfield) Unitarian Chapelyard can no longer be maintained. The cemetery also has a Cross of Sacrifice.
    • No. of Identified Casualties: 159

    1. DALTON, GEORGE G GUARDSMAN 4TH BN. Coldstream Guards 2653569 20.01.1945
    2. HYDE, HORACE H LANCE CORPORAL - Scots Guards 2698573 18.06.1944
    3. 2722513 Arthur LEES, 3 Irish Guards
     
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    MANCHESTER (PHILIPS PARK) CEMETERY
    • Country: United Kingdom
    • Locality: Lancashire
    • Historical Information: During the First World War, Manchester contained between thirty and forty war hospitals, including the 2nd Western General Hospital and the Nell Lane Military Hospital for prisoners of war. Many of those buried in the cemeteries and churchyards of the city died in these hospitals. During the Second World War, there was a Royal Air Force Station at Heaton Park, Manchester. Manchester (Philips Park) Cemetery contains 272 First World War burials and 174 from the Second World War. The burials are scattered throughout the cemetery, a Screen Wall near the main entrance bears the names of those casualties of both wars whose graves could not be individually marked. There is also one non-war service burial in the cemetery. A Cross of Sacrifice stands beside the Screen Wall.
    • No. of Identified Casualties: 447

    1. DUNCAN, LEONARD L GUARDSMAN 4TH BN. Grenadier Guards 2618133 06.02.1942
    2. GALE, GEORGE G GUARDSMAN 3RD BN. Grenadier Guards 2618050 23.04.1941
    3. 2720116 James WILKINSON, Irish Guards
     
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    MANCHESTER CREMATORIUM
    • Country: United Kingdom
    • Locality: Lancashire
    • Historical Information: The crematorium is in Barlow Moor Road, West Disbury, on the southern side of the city. It adjoins Manchester (Southern) Cemetery. The 14 casualties of the 1914-1918 War cremated here are commemorated on a memorial stone near the entrance to the grounds. The 177 casualties of the 1939-1945 War are commemorated on the memorial screen wall which stands in the 1939-1945 War Graves Plot, in nearby Manchester (Southern) Cemetery. The crematorium was opened before the 1914-1918 War and is owned by the Manchester Crematorium Ltd.
    • No. of Identified Casualties: 191

    1. STEWART BROWN, WILLIAM SUTTON W S MAJOR - Coldstream Guards 18658 28.07.1944
     
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    MANCHESTER SOUTHERN CEMETERY
    • Country: United Kingdom
    • Locality: Lancashire
    • Historical Information: During the First World War, Manchester contained between thirty and forty war hospitals, including the 2nd Western General Hospital and the Nell Lane Military Hospital for prisoners of war. Many of those buried in the cemeteries and churchyards of the city died in these hospitals. During the Second World War, there was a Royal Air Force Station at Heaton Park, Manchester. Manchester Southern Cemetery contains burials of both wars, the majority of them scattered. There are also separate plots for First and Second World War burials, but in neither case are the graves marked individually; instead, each plot has a Screen Wall bearing the names of those buried there. Each plot has a Cross of Sacrifice. In all, 803 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War, including 1 unidentified, and 475 from the Second World War, including 3 unidentified, are now commemorated in the cemetery; there is also 1 non-war service grave. The Screen Wall in the Second World War plot also bears the names of 177 servicemen and women whose remains were cremated. Further memorials in this plot commemorate 17 Polish servicemen buried there, and a number of casualties of both wars buried in other cemeteries and churchyards in the Manchester area whose graves could no longer be maintained. Casualties buried in the following cemeteries and churchyards are now alternatively commemorated on Screen Wall Memorials in Manchester Southern Cemetery: Ashton-under-Lyne (St Michael) Churchyard Extension Birch-in-Rusholme (St James) Churchyard Bury (Brunswick) United Methodist Cemetery Cheetham Hill (St Luke) Churchyard Eccles (St Mary) Churchyard Eccleston (St Thomas) Churchyard Extension Edgeworth Congregational Chapelyard Manchester General Cemetery Newton Heath (All Saints) Church Cemetery Openshaw (St Barnabas) Churchyard Swinton Unitarian Chapelyard.
    • No. of Identified Casualties: 1252

    1. BAMFORD, NORMAN CLENTON N C GUARDSMAN - Grenadier Guards 2619222 06.02.1942
    2. BARKER, GORDON LEONARD G L GUARDSMAN - Grenadier Guards 2626701 14.04.1946
    3. 2720337 Robert BARNES, 2 Irish Guards
    4. EDGE, NORMAN PATRICK N P GUARDSMAN 2ND BN. Grenadier Guards 46835 14.06.1940
    5. FORBES, JOHN RALPH J R LANCE CORPORAL - Coldstream Guards 2662111 29.11.1945
    6. 14372843 John Thomas HUGHES, Welsh Guards
    7. MATTHEWS, JOHN J GUARDSMAN 1ST BN. Grenadier Guards 2609017 10.02.1947
    8. RICHES, CHARLES HENRY C H LANCE SERJEANT - Scots Guards 2692065 19.08.1946
    9. TILLEY, PETER P GUARDSMAN - Scots Guards 2693919 02.09.1941
     
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    MANOR PARK CEMETERY
    • Country: United Kingdom
    • Locality: Essex
    • Historical Information: There are 226 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war and 191 of the 1939-1945 war here. There are also 2 non World War burials. Those whose graves could not be marked on a headstone are named on a Screen Wall memorial.
    • No. of Identified Casualties: 433

    1. MILLER, LESLIE CARL L C GUARDSMAN - Grenadier Guards 2621813 11.01.1941
     
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    MERE CEMETERY
    • Country: United Kingdom
    • Locality: Wiltshire
    • Location Information: This is on the main Wincanton-Salisbury road, it was opened in 1856, and now belongs to the Parish Council.
    • No. of Identified Casualties: 11

    1. BAILEY, CHARLES EDWARD C E GUARDSMAN 1ST BN. Grenadier Guards 2617514 09.07.1942
     
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