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Wandsworth (Earlsfield) Cemetery |
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Earlsfield, London |
| This cemetery is to the North-East of
Earlsfield Station and is bounded by the Magdalen Road on the East and the
main railway line on the West. It contains five 1914-1918 War Plots, (the
general Military Plot, the Australian, the Newfoundland, the New Zealand and
the South African plots. These are on the main path leading West from
Magdalen Road and there are also over 200 burials in other parts of the
cemetery. The Military Plot contains a Screen Wall bearing the names of
those buried in it and those in unmarked graves in other parts of the
cemetery. The majority of the 1939-1945 burials are scattered throughout the
cemetery but there is one group of six burials together in a War Plot near
the main entrance. Again, those whose graves are unmarked are also named
upon the Screen Wall, Panel 1.
Many of the 1914-1918 burials are from the 3rd London General Hospital which was based at Wandsworth. There are 477 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war and 115 of the 1939-1945 war here. There are also 5 non-war service burials here. No. of Identified Casualties: 599 |
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