LEWISHAM (LADYWELL) CEMETERY
LEWISHAM (LADYWELL) CEMETERY
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- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Locality:
- London
- Identified Casualties:
- 242
Location Information
The cemetery entrance is located at the corner of Ivy Road and Brockley Grove. It is immediately east of Deptford (Brockley) Cemetery, however there is no clearly defined boundary between the two sites.
There are around 100 burials in the War Plot and their names are inscribed on a Screen Wall Memorial located in Plot D which also commemorates those whose graves are located elsewhere in the cemetery but are not marked by headstones. In addition to the scattered graves in the cemetery there are 46 headstones in the Commission's Commemorative Plot, located in Plot B.
Historical Information
There are 219 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war and 18 of the 1939-1945 war here.