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 poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don’t go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It’s always so.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)
“What we now call “finance” is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)