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:
“Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind”
—Stephen Crane (1871–1900)
“The populations of Pwllheli, Criccieth,
Portmadoc, Borth, Tremadoc, Penrhyndeudraeth,
Were all assembled. Criccieth’s mayor addressed them
First in good Welsh and then in fluent English,”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)