Guards - U.K. Cemeteries list

SHAFTESBURY BOROUGH CEMETERY

• Country: United Kingdom
• Locality: Dorset
• Historical Information: Shaftesbury Borough Cemetery contains 27 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War. There is also one non-war grave and 11 war burials of other nationalities, most of them made from the prisoner of war camp that was at Shaftesbury during the Second World War.
• No. of Identified Casualties: 39

1. CHATTINGTON, JAMES J LANCE CORPORAL 4TH BN. Coldstream Guards 2661554 31.12.1942

 

SHALDON (OR RINGMORE) (ST. NICHOLAS) CHURCHYARD

• Country: United Kingdom
• Locality: Devon
• No. of Identified Casualties: 9

1. 2733072 David Owen PRICE, Welsh Guards

 

SHEFFIELD (CITY ROAD) CEMETERY

• Country: United Kingdom
• Locality: Yorkshire
• Historical Information: During the First World War there were two substantial war hospitals in Sheffield, the Wharncliffe, in the Wadsley Asylum, and the 3rd Northern General, housed in 15 separate buildings. The city, a centre for war industry during the Second World War, suffered heavy enemy air-raids during the Blitz with 600 people killed in a single raid in December 1940. The First World War graves in Sheffield (City Road) Cemetery are scattered and a screen wall in Section Q (near the main entrance) bears the names of a number of casualties buried in graves that could not be marked with headstones. There is a small plot of Second World War graves in Section H and the rest are scattered. The plot also contains a number of special memorials headstones to casualties buried elsewhere in the cemetery in graves that could not be marked individually and a screen wall commemorates casualties buried in Sheffield General Cemetery and Sheffield (St Philip)(Wardsend) Church Cemetery whose graves could no longer be maintained. In all, SHEFFIELD (CITY ROAD) CEMETERY contains 220 burials and commemorations of the First World War and 147 from the Second. There are also five non-war service burials and nine war graves of other nationalities. On the western boundary of the war graves plot there is a memorial commemorating 30 servicemen whose remains were cremated at SHEFFIELD CREMATORIUM.
• No. of Identified Casualties: 382

1. CONGREVE, LEONARD L GUARDSMAN - Coldstream Guards 2663561 18.06.1944

 

SHEFFIELD (SHIREGREEN) CEMETERY

• Country: United Kingdom
• Locality: Yorkshire
• Historical Information: The burials are scattered throughout the cemetery. Two special memorials erected one on either side of the path between Sections G and H, on the right hand side, record the names of two servicemen whose graves could not be marked by headstones.
• No. of Identified Casualties: 69

1. SAXTON, CLIFFORD C GUARDSMAN - Coldstream Guards 2658597 23.11.1942

 

SHELLEY (EMMANUEL) CHURCHYARD

• Country: United Kingdom
• Locality: Yorkshire
• No. of Identified Casualties: 5

1. NOBLE, LEONARD L GUARDSMAN - Coldstream Guards 2661860 31.12.1941

 

SHORNCLIFFE MILITARY CEMETERY

• Country: United Kingdom
• Locality: Kent
• Location Information: Shorncliffe Military Cemetery belongs to the Ministry of Defence and contains war graves of both World Wars. It is close to the military camp at Shorncliffe, 2 miles west of Folkestone on the B2063.
• Historical Information: During the First World War a number of Canadian military establishments were centred on Shorncliffe. There were camps and a Machine Gun School which were served by the Shorncliffe Military Hospital (later No. 9 Canadian General), the Moore Barracks Military Hospital (later No. 11 Canadian General), and other Canadian hospitals. The Canadian Army Medical Corps Training Depot was at or near Shorncliffe during almost the whole of the war. On three occasions Canadian soldiers were killed during air raids on Shorncliffe. Shorncliffe Military Cemetery contains 471 First World War burials, more than 300 of them Canadian. Second World War burials number 81, including 1 unidentified U.K. soldier and 1 Polish Foreign National. The cemetery also contains a screen wall on which are commemorated 18 Belgians originally buried in a mausoleum, now demolished.
• No. of Identified Casualties: 572

1. BAKEHOUSE, JOHN ALBERT J A GUARDSMAN 3RD BN. Grenadier Guards 2613348 26.05.1940
2. OLIVER, LESLIE L CORPORAL - Coldstream Guards 2657477 05.06.1940

 

SHOTTS (KIRK OF SHOTTS) CEMETERY

• Country: United Kingdom
• Locality: Lanarkshire
• No. of Identified Casualties: 18

1. BOSLEM J SERJEANT - Scots Guards 2704651 12.11.1947

 

SITTINGBOURNE CEMETERY

• Country: United Kingdom
• Locality: Kent
• No. of Identified Casualties: 66

1. COWANS, ROBERT R GUARDSMAN - Scots Guards 2693117 22.03.1941
2. WHITE, REGINALD JOHN R J GUARDSMAN - Grenadier Guards 6287238 15.09.1944

 

SKELMERSDALE (ST. PAUL) CHURCHYARD

• Country: United Kingdom
• Locality: Lancashire
• No. of Identified Casualties: 10

1. PORTER, EDWARD E GUARDSMAN - Grenadier Guards 2627947 20.01.1946

 

SKIPTON (WALTONWRAYS) CEMETERY

• Country: United Kingdom
• Locality: Yorkshire
• No. of Identified Casualties: 43

1. GOUGH, FRED F GUARDSMAN - Coldstream Guards 2662935 01.03.1941

 

SLAD (HOLY TRINITY) CHURCHYARD

• Country: United Kingdom
• Locality: Gloucestershire
• No. of Identified Casualties: 7

1. PAYNE, ARTHUR SYDNEY A S SERJEANT - Grenadier Guards 2609789 24.02.1944

 

SLOUGH (STOKE ROAD) CEMETERY

• Country: United Kingdom
• Locality: Buckinghamshire
• No. of Identified Casualties: 41

1. SUMMERSBY, BRIAN DAVID B D GUARDSMAN - Coldstream Guards 2670012 17.08.1945

 

SNODLAND CEMETERY

• Country: United Kingdom
• Locality: Kent
• Historical Information: Snodland Cemetery belongs to the Parish Council. It was made in 1895.
• No. of Identified Casualties: 17

1. WILLIAMS, WILFRED ERNEST W E GUARDSMAN - Grenadier Guards 2611694 03.09.1942

 

SORN (CATRINE) CEMETERY

• Country: United Kingdom
• Locality: Ayrshire
• No. of Identified Casualties: 7

1. STEVENS, ADAM AIRD A A GUARDSMAN - Scots Guards 2700286 21.08.1942

 

SORN PARISH CHURCHYARD

• Country: United Kingdom
• Locality: Ayrshire
• No. of Identified Casualties: 2

1. RICHARDSON, WILLIAM JOHN W J GUARDSMAN 4TH BN. Scots Guards 2698141 01.01.1943

 

SOUTH COWTON (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD

• Country: United Kingdom
• Locality: Yorkshire
• No. of Identified Casualties: 2

1. MOSS, FREDERICK F GUARDSMAN - Coldstream Guards 2661892 27.01.1947

 

SOUTH EALING CEMETERY

• Country: United Kingdom
• Locality: Middlesex
• Location Information: The cemetery, belonging to the Ealing and Old Brentford Burial Board, was laid out in 1861, and covers 21 acres. It is on the road from Ealing and South Ealing railway station to Brentford. It contains scattered War Graves, including that of a Belgian soldier; and a War Cross is erected, backed by a screen wall bearing the names of whose graves are not marked by headstones.
• No. of Identified Casualties: 184

1. GILBERT, JOHN MAURICE J M LANCE CORPORAL - Grenadier Guards 2622526 18.05.1943
2. JONES, GEORGE HENRY G H GUARDSMAN - Grenadier Guards 2617981 13.06.1942

 

SOUTH MALLING (ST. MICHAEL) CHURCHYARD

• Country: United Kingdom
• Locality: Sussex
• No. of Identified Casualties: 7

1. BOUGHEY, JOHN FLETCHER J F SECOND LIEUTENANT - Coldstream Guards 124549 31.08.1940

 

SOUTH SHIELDS (HARTON) CEMETERY

• Country: United Kingdom
• Locality: Durham
• Historical Information: During the two world wars, the United Kingdom became an island fortress used for training troops and launching land, sea and air operations around the globe. There are more than 170,000 Commonwealth war graves in the United Kingdom, many being those of servicemen and women killed on active service, or who later succumbed to wounds. Others died in training accidents, or because of sickness or disease. The graves, many of them privately owned and marked by private memorials, will be found in more than 12,000 cemeteries and churchyards. South Shields (Harton) Cemetery contains 206 scattered burials of the First World War. Second World War burials number 209, more than 100 of them forming a war graves plot in Section 9. The plot also contains 21 non-war service burials and one Dutch war grave. The cemetery suffered heavily during air raids on the Tyneside area during the first years of the Second World War. It was severely damaged on several occasions, both by bombs which fell on it and by a landmine which exploded there in April 1941. Another air-raid in October 1942 caused extensive damage to the cemetery.
• No. of Identified Casualties: 439

1. LYNDO, HENRY H GUARDSMAN - Coldstream Guards 2668729 14.06.1947
2. 2732826 Arthur SMITH, Welsh Guards

 

SOUTHAMPTON (HOLLYBROOK) CEMETERY

• Country: United Kingdom
• Locality: Hampshire
• Location Information: This cemetery is located off Tremona Road, opposite the general Accident and Emergency Hospital. From Junction 5 of the M27, take the A35 (Burgess Road/Winchester Road) and follow signs for general hospital.
• Historical Information: Southampton was No 1 Port during the First World War and military hospitals were established in the University buildings, in the Highfield Institution and at Shirley Warren. During the Second World War, 4.5 million tons of military equipment passed through Southampton docks and parts of the prefabricated harbours used at Arromanches during the Normandy invasion were made there. For a while, Southampton was also base to the 14th Major Port Transportation Corps of the United States Army. Southampton (Hollybrook) Cemetery contains burials of both wars and a memorial to the missing. The cemetery has a First World War plot near the main entrance containing most of the 113 graves from this period. Behind this plot is the Hollybrook Memorial which commemorates by name almost 1,900 servicemen and women of the Commonwealth land and air forces whose graves are not known, many of whom were lost in transports or other vessels torpedoed or mined in home waters. It also bears the names of those who were lost or buried at sea, or who died at home but whose bodies could not be recovered for burial. Most of the 186 Second World War burials are in a separate war graves plot. 3 of these burials are unidentified seaman of the Merchant Navy. In addition to the Commonwealth war graves, the cemetery contains 67 war graves of other nationalities, many of them German, of which 2 are unidentified.
• No. of Identified Casualties: 365

1. MAWDSLEY, WILLIAM HENRY W H GUARDSMAN 4TH BN. Grenadier Guards 2618646 11.08.1944