Greenwich Cemetery War Memorial - Well Hall Road, London, UK
N 51° 27.955 E 000° 02.857
31U E 294934 N 5705773
This Great Wat memorial is located in Greenwich Cemetery that is located of Well Hall Road near Eltham. It is in an area of the cemetery called "The Great War Heroes Corner". This area has spledid views to the west to the London skyline.
Waymark Code: WMHDHD
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/27/2013
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At the entrance to the cemetery
is a sign that reads:
At this location there are
Commonwealth
War Graves
www.cwgc.org
The entry for Greenwich
Cemetery advises that there are 677 identified casualties. The
CWGC website goes on to say:
Historical Information
Greenwich Cemetery contains 556 First World War burials. More than half of these
graves are scattered throughout the cemetery, but 263 form a large war graves
plot known as 'Heroes' Corner'. Here, two curved screen walls bear the names of
casualties buried both in the plot and in unmarked graves in the cemetery.
The Second World War plot adjoins and contains 75 graves. An additional screen
wall commemorates casualties buried in this plot and ten others buried in
unmarked graves elsewhere in the cemetery. In all, the cemetery contains 124
Second World War burials, 3 of which are unidentified British soldiers.
Section E contains a plot of 30 Norwegian service graves from the Second World
War.
On the right hand screen is a panel (panel 12) that reads:
On panels
one to eleven
are recorded
the names of those
who are buried
within this
enclosed space
and on panels
thirteen to
twenty two
the names of those
buried elsewhere
in this cemetery
and not otherwise
commemorated
Panels 1 to 11 are on the left screen and 12 to 22 are on the right screen.
Close by are some of the individual graves.