Established 1902 Find a Grave Vestre Gravlund Date formed 1902 | Size 243 acres (98 ha) Phone +47 22 13 31 80 | |
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Vestre Gravlund ("Western Cemetery") is a cemetery in the Frogner borough of Oslo, Norway, located next to the Borgen metro station. At 243 acres (0.98 km2), it is the largest cemetery in Norway. It was inaugurated in September 1902 and also contains a crematorium.
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Notable interments
British War Graves
The cemetery is registered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission as "Oslo Western Civil Cemetery". Plot 60 contains war graves of 101 British Commonwealth service personnel of World War II. Most were airmen shot down raiding the occupied Oslo Airport at Fornebu. Most of the others were killed in air crashes during Allied landings, 43 lives being lost on Liberation Day alone (10 May 1945). A Cross of Sacrifice was unveiled in 1949. Opposite to the cross the citizens of Oslo erected a memorial to Commonwealth servicemen who died on Norwegian soil during that war. The memorial, unveiled in 1960, is in form of a kneeling figure of a mourning naked woman.