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Buxton Cemetery

  • Country United Kingdom
  • Total identified casualties 76 Find these casualties
  • Region Derbyshire
  • Identified casualties from First & Second World War
  • GPS Coordinates Latitude: 53.24471, Longitude: -1.90132
BUXTON CEMETERY - CWGC
BUXTON CEMETERY - CWGC
BUXTON CEMETERY - CWGC

History information

Buxton Cemetery contains 54 scattered burials of the First World War, 29 of them Canadian; a Canadian special orthopaedic hospital was at Buxton in 1917-19 and the town was No 1 Canadian Discharge Depot.

The cemetery also contains 22 Second World War burials, some of them made from the RAF station that was at Harpur Hill at this time.