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:
“War is bestowed like electroshock on the depressive nation; thousands of volts jolting the system, an artificial galvanizing, one effect of which is loss of memory. War comes at the end of the twentieth century as absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to “feel good” about themselves, their country, is a measure of that failure.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“And they that rule in England
In stately conclave met,
Alas, alas, for England
They have no graves as yet.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)