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:
“The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting—the war and the revolution—and the character of the accused—revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power—you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)
“Our graves that hide us from the searching sun
Are like drawn curtains when the play is done.
Thus march we, playing, to our latest rest,
Only, we die in earnest—that’s no jest.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)