Wallsend (Holy Cross) Cemetery

• Country United Kingdom
• Total identified casualties 62 Find these casualties
• Region Northumberland
• Identified casualties from First & Second World War
• GPS Coordinates Latitude: 55.0006, Longitude: -1.51843

History information

During the two world wars, the United Kingdom became an island fortress used for training troops and launching land, sea and air operations around the globe. There are more than 170,000 Commonwealth war graves in the United Kingdom, many being those of servicemen and women killed on active service, or who later succumbed to wounds. Others died in training accidents, or because of sickness or disease. The graves, many of them privately owned and marked by private memorials, will be found in more than 12,000 cemeteries and churchyards. Wallsend (Holy Cross) Cemetery contains five First World War burials. Second World War burials number 56, 18 of them forming a small war graves group in the northern part. There is also one Greek sailor buried in this group.