Plumstead Cemetery

Cemetery in Greenwich, London

Plumstead Cemetery is a cemetery in Plumstead, southeast London. It is situated south-east of Woolwich, to the north of Wickham Lane, west of Lodge Hill,^[1] and south of Bostall Wood.

The cemetery was opened in 1890 by Woolwich Burial Board in former parkland,^[2] to the west of Woolwich cemetery. It has a plot of graves holding civilian war dead from Woolwich, 187 Commonwealth war graves (106 from the First World War and 81 from the Second World War),^[3] the graves of two former mayors of Woolwich (Col Sir Edwin Hughes, Woolwich's first MP and first mayor of Woolwich in 1900/01, and Albert Gorman, mayor in 1940/41), and, to the north of the cemetery's chapel, a memorial to victims of two accidental explosions in 1903 at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich.^[4]^[5]

Memorials

Notable burials include:

Charles Booth Brackenbury (1831–1890)
Thomas Flawn VC (1857–1925)
Sir Edwin Hughes MP (1832–1904)
Alfred Smith VC (1861–1932)

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Plumstead Cemetery.

^ "Directory: Cemeteries and crematorium: Plumstead Cemetery". Royal Borough of Greenwich. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
^ "Plumstead Cemetery, London, England". Parks and Gardens. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
^ "Commonwealth War Graves Plumstead Cemetery". Traces of War. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
^ "VCs, Royal Arsenal workers and mayors among 56,000 burial records". Deceased Online. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
^ "Plumstead cemetery". London Gardens Online. Retrieved 15 June 2017.