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Find 16626 memorial records at the Willesden New Cemetery cemetery in Willesden, Greater London. Add a memorial, flowers or photo.
Willesden New Cemetery contains 130 First World War graves and 121 from the Second World War. Most of the graves are scattered, although 29 of the Second World War graves form an informal group. A Screen Wall bears the names of those casualties from both wars buried in the cemetery whose graves could not be individually marked.
Willesden New Cemetery opened in 1891. It includes the Willesden Civilian war memorial, a tribute to local civilians who died in the second world war. View cemetery fees and charges....
The cemetery contains war graves of 130 Commonwealth service personnel who died in World War I and 121 who died in World War II.
Now a new memorial lists all 230 people buried in Willesden New Cemetery who died in Second World War air raids. The ages of those listed have been included which makes the memorial even more poignant and meaningful as families who died together can now be traced.
This is a list of people buried at Willesden Jewish Cemetery at Beaconsfield Road, Willesden, in the London Borough of Brent, England. Willesden Jewish Cemetery, which opened in 1873, has 29,800 graves; three of the tombs, including that of Rosalind Franklin, are listed at Grade II by Historic England.
Willesden New Cemetery Brief Description. Willesden Local Board purchased this land in 1888 for Willesden New Cemetery. The cemetery opened 1891 and was so-named to distinguish it from the burial ground at St Mary's Willesden, which then became known as Willesden Old Cemetery.