Kensal Green Cemetery - War Graves

War Graves

The cemetery contains the graves of 473 Commonwealth service personnel of the First World War - half of whom form a war graves plot in the south-west corner, the remainder in small groups or individual graves scattered throughout the grounds - and 51 of the Second who are all dispersed. In the First World War plot, at Section 213, a Screen Wall memorial lists casualties of both World Wars whose graves could not be marked by headstones, besides 5 servicemen who were cremated at Kensal Green Crematorium. The highest ranking person commemorated by the CWGC to be buried here is General Sir Charles Douglas (1850-1914), Chief of the Imperial General Staff at outbreak of the First World War.

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