War Graves
The cemetery contains burials or special memorials of servicemen and women of both World Wars who are commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC). The majority are buried in two war graves plots in Section 5 where two Screen Walls list those buried in the plots.
There are 445 Commonwealth casualties from the First World War commemorated here, including 17 servicemen buried at two cemeteries whose graves (at St Mary's Churchyard, Bootle, and St James Cemetery, Liverpool) could no longer be maintained and whose names are listed on a Screen Wall. From the Second World War, 459 Commonwealth casualties are buried here, including two unidentified British soldiers. There is also a CWGC memorial at the crematorium listing 47 servicemen and women from the same war who were cremated there.
Those whose graves could not be marked by headstones are listed on another Screen Wall. The CWGC also care for 67 war graves of other nationalities, most of whom are Dutch and Norwegian merchant seamen.
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