Guards - U.K. Cemeteries list

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    PERTH (WELLSHILL) CEMETERY
    • Country: United Kingdom
    • Locality: Perthshire
    • Historical Information: During both World Wars, Perth Infirmary, containing 100 beds, became Perth War Hospital. The 1914-1918 burials are located in many different parts of the cemetery. In the early months of the 1939-1945 War the local authorities set aside a special section in the Jeanfield Division, opposite the Jeanfield Road entrance, for Commonwealth and Allied war graves, and in this section there is a small group of Commonwealth graves. The other Commonwealth graves are in various parts of the cemetery, in situations chosen by those who arranged the interments. During the 1939-1945 war this cemetery was one of those selected for use as a Polish cemetery when Scotland became the base for the Polish Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. This is at the southern end of the Jeanfield Division and contains over 350 burials. In a commanding position in the cemetery, and north of the Commonwealth 1939-1945 War graves, stands a granite Cross of Sacrifice. There are now around 80, 1914-1918 and over 120, 1939-1945 Commonwealth War Dead commemorated in this site.
    • No. of Identified Casualties: 569

    1. MILNE, HENRY H GUARDSMAN - Scots Guards 2700200 03.06.1942
     
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    PIEROWALL OLD CHURCHYARD
    • Country: United Kingdom
    • Locality: Orkney
    • Location Information: This is on the North-West coast of Westray and contains a ruined Church. In the newer (Eastern) part are buried two British soldiers and (at the south end) eleven unidentified men of the Swedish S.S. "Birka." from the 1914-1918 war. There are also 2 Commonwealth burials of the 1939-1945 war and 1 Norwegian Merchant seaman.
    • No. of Identified Casualties: 5

    1. DREVER J R GUARDSMAN 2ND BN. Scots Guards 2703364 30.08.1947
     
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    PLUMSTEAD CEMETERY
    • Country: United Kingdom
    • Locality: London
    • No. of Identified Casualties: 187

    1. MILLER, JAMES J WARRANT OFFICER CLASS III (P.S.M.) 2ND BN. Grenadier Guards 2612482 12.06.1940
    2. SMITH, WILLIAM JAMES W J GUARDSMAN - Coldstream Guards 2660436 24.01.1943
     
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    PONTYPRIDD (GLYNTAFF) CEMETERY
    • Country: United Kingdom
    • Locality: Glamorganshire
    • Historical Information: This cemetery contains war graves of both world wars, the burials of the 1914-1918 War being scattered in various parts of the cemetery. The burials of the 1939-1945 War are also scattered throughout the cemetery. In the centre of the cemetery, facing the entrance gates, is a Crematorium where members of His Majesty's Forces were cremated during the 1939-1945 war and are commemorated.
    • No. of Identified Casualties: 115

    1. 2734596 Ernest Edward ELLEY, 1 Welsh Guards
    2. 2735011 Daniel KERESEY, Welsh Guards
    3. 2736031 Joseph ROBERTS, 2 Welsh Guards
     
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    POOLE CEMETERY
    • Country: United Kingdom
    • Locality: Dorset
    • Historical Information: Poole Cemetery contains 27 First World War burials and 43 from the Second World War. There are also two Belgian war graves in the cemetery.
    • No. of Identified Casualties: 72

    1. EPTON, VICTOR GEORGE V G GUARDSMAN - Coldstream Guards 2658473 13.11.1944
     
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    PORT GLASGOW CEMETERY

    • Country: United Kingdom
    • Locality: Renfrewshire
    • Location Information: This is on the East side of the town.
    • No. of Identified Casualties: 59

    1. MCCLOY J GUARDSMAN 2ND BN. Scots Guards 2703381 30.04.1947
     
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    PORTSMOUTH (KINGSTON) CEMETERY
    • Country: United Kingdom
    • Locality: Hampshire
    • Location Information: This cemetery is about 2 kilometres from the Guildhall, in St. Mary's Road, Kingston, a locality in Portsmouth County Borough. It covers 32 hectares, and is the largest of three cemeteries owned by the Corporation. Opened in 1856, and taken over by the Corporation in 1895, it contains service war graves of both World Wars.
    • Historical Information: The 1914-1918 burials are in many different parts of this large burial ground. After the war a Cross of Sacrifice was erected on an island site facing the main entrance, in honour of all the servicemen buried in the cemetery. The 1939-1945 War graves, too, are widely distributed, but there is a group of 20 graves about 200 metres north-east of the chapel. Of the 1939-1945 burials, many were the result of enemy air raids on Portsmouth. Of the First World War burials, 1 is an unidentified sailor of the Royal Navy. Of the Second World War burials, 2 are unidentified soldiers of the British Army and 1 is an unidentified Merchant Navy seaman. There is 1 American Army war burial and 4 now world war service burials here.
    • No. of Identified Casualties: 570

    1. HAWKINS, GEORGE ERNEST G E LANCE CORPORAL 6TH BN. Coldstream Guards 2664035 02.11.1941
     
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    PORTSMOUTH (MILTON) CEMETERY
    • Country: United Kingdom
    • Locality: Hampshire
    • Historical Information: It was opened in 1911, and contains war graves of both World Wars. The 1914-1918 burials are mainly in Plot 1. After the war a Cross of Sacrifice was erected on the northern side of the chapel in honour of all the servicemen buried in the cemetery. The 1939-1945 War burials are widely spread throughout the cemetery.
    • No. of Identified Casualties: 427

    1. GREEN, CECIL WILLIAM C W GUARDSMAN 4TH BN. Grenadier Guards 2620795 04.08.1944
    2. GREGORY, GILBERT FRANK G F GUARDSMAN - Grenadier Guards 2626174 02.04.1941
     
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    RAMSGATE CEMETERY
    RAMSGATE AND ST. LAWRENCE CEMETERY
    • Country: United Kingdom
    • Locality: Kent
    • Historical Information: During the First World War Ramsgate was the base of armed drifters and held a Canadian Special Hospital. The town was bombed in March 1916. Ramsgate and St Lawrence Cemetery contains 101 First World War burials, almost half of them forming a war graves plot. Six of the burials are unidentified. Close to the plot are the graves of 13 men of HMTB'4' killed in an explosion in May 1917. Ramsgate was a naval station during the Second World War and one of the ports controlling the initial despatch of volunteer vessels for the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940. Nearby Manston aerodrome, a Royal Air Force fighter airfield, was attacked several times during the Battle of Britain and was put out of action for a period. The cemetery was used by the aerodrome and by Ramsgate General Hospital. Second World War burials in the cemetery number 88, six of them unidentified. Most of these graves form a second plot which also contains eleven German and one Dutch grave.
    • No. of Identified Casualties: 190

    1. PARSISSON, FRANK F GUARDSMAN 2ND BN. Coldstream Guards 2656888 01.06.1940
     
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    RAWTENSTALL CEMETERY
    • Country: United Kingdom
    • Locality: Lancashire
    • No. of Identified Casualties: 38

    1. HALL, ALAN A GUARDSMAN 1ST BN. Coldstream Guards 2668177 29.10.1947
     
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