War Graves
There are 279 Commonwealth service personnel of both World Wars buried here, the names of all being listed on bronze panels on a Screen Wall memorial, as are 4 Dutch merchant seamen. Nine British merchant seamen are buried here who were killed when their ship, S.S. Bennevis, was bombed while berthed in the Pool of London during one air raid in World War II.
Read more about this topic: Tower Hamlets Cemetery
Famous quotes containing the words war and/or graves:
“Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.”
—Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)
“After, when they disentwine
You from me and yours from mine,
Neither can be certain who
Was that I whose mine was you.
To the act again they go
More completely not to know.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)