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Hastings Cemetery

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Hastings Cemetery is a cemetery in Hastings, East Sussex, England.

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The cemetery was opened on 28 November 1856. The Church of England section was consecrated by Ashurst Gilbert, Bishop of Chichester, followed by a service in All Saints Church.

Hastings Crematorium is located within the cemetery. It was built in 1955, incorporating two Gothic-style burial chapels built in 1856 of local sandstone.

Notable burials

  • Major-General Sir Edward Anson (1826–1925), army officer
  • Major-General John Granville Harkness (1831–1900), army officer
  • Arthur Foord Hughes (1856–1914), artist
  • George Monger (1840–1887)
  • W. S. Penley (1851–1912), singer, actor and comedian
  • Sergiusz Piasecki (1901–1964), Polish novelist
  • Arthur Banks Skinner (1861–1911), director of the Victoria and Albert Museum
  • Anna McNeill Whistler (1804–1881)
  • William McNeill Whistler (1836–1900)

    • War graves

    Hastings Cemetery contains the war graves of 176 Commonwealth service personnel (including two unidentified Royal Navy sailors) of World War I and 69 of World War II. Those whose graves could not be individually marked are listed on a Screen Wall Memorial. There are also buried here a Belgian army soldier of World War I and a German soldier and six German airmen of World War II.

    References

    Hastings Cemetery Wikipedia
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