War Graves
The cemetery contains the graves of 316 Commonwealth service personnel maintained and registered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, in both the East and West Cemetery, 257 from the First World War and 59 from the Second. Those whose graves could not be marked by headstones are listed on a Screen Wall memorial erected near the Cross of Sacrifice in the older (Western) Cemetery.
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Famous quotes containing the words war and/or graves:
“The war on privilege will never end. Its next great campaign will be against the privileges of the underprivileged.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“the sweet-cupid-lipped and tassel-yarded
Delicate-stomached dwellers
In Pygmy Alley,”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)