North Sheen Cemetery

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Established 1909 Country England Find a Grave North Sheen Cemetery Phone +44 20 7385 3650		Location Kew, London Type Active Founded 1909

Owned by Hammersmith and Fulham Council Address Lower Richmond Rd, Richmond TW9 4LL, UK Owner Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council Burials Aleksandra Piłsudska, Gwyneth Dunwoody, Stefan Hanka-Kulesza, Tony Smith

North Sheen Cemetery is a cemetery in Kew in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames (historically in North Sheen, Surrey). It is managed by Hammersmith and Fulham Council.

The cemetery, which adjoins Mortlake Road (the A205 or South Circular Road) and Lower Richmond Road (the A316), opened in 1909 and is still in use. It is also known as Fulham New Cemetery as it provided burials for the then Metropolitan Borough of Fulham when the old Fulham Cemetery on Fulham Palace Road was full. It has a grid layout of paths and had a temporary chapel, which was replaced by a small red brick chapel in 1931.

The cemetery includes 110 identified graves of Commonwealth service personnel in the First World War and the Second World War and a memorial garden.

Notable burials

Gwyneth Dunwoody (née Phillips; 1930–2008), British Labour Party politician and the longest ever serving female MP in the UK Parliament

Aleksandra Piłsudska (1882–1963), Polish political activist who was married to Polish leader Józef Piłsudski

Józef Retinger (1888–1960), Polish political adviser. He was a founder of the European Movement that would lead to the founding of the European Union and was involved in founding the Bilderberg Group

Tony Smith (GC) (1894–1964) who was awarded the George Cross for rescuing people from a bomb-damaged building in London in 1944

References

North Sheen Cemetery Wikipedia

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