Beckenham Cemetery and Crematorium
Also known as Crystal Palace District Cemetery , Elmers End Cemetery
Beckenham, London Borough of Bromley, Greater London, England
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Beckenham, London Borough of Bromley, Greater London EnglandCoordinates: 51.40270, -0.05470 - Cemetery ID:
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As many of these graves could not be individually marked, 26 casualties are commemorated by name on a screen wall. Later, forty others were found to be in locations that could not be satisfactorily maintained, and the headstones from these graves were moved into the small Second World War plot. This plot contains only ten of the 127 Second World War burials, but three casualties whose graves elsewhere in the cemetery could not be individually marked are commemorated there by special memorials.
Just before the chapel area on the left can be seen the large white memorial to the Stamp family. Josiah Charles, the first Baron Stamp, an economist and financier, was killed together with his wife, by a German bomb on 16 April 1941. His son and heir was killed by the same bomb, but was deemed to have survived his father by a few seconds, and to have inherited his peerage during that time: Wilfred Carlyle, the second Baron Stamp, is the briefest incumbent of any peerage.
Address: Beckenham Crematorium & Cemetery Company (privately owned)
Elmers End Road
Beckenham
Kent
BR3 4TD
Nearest station: Birkbeck
As many of these graves could not be individually marked, 26 casualties are commemorated by name on a screen wall. Later, forty others were found to be in locations that could not be satisfactorily maintained, and the headstones from these graves were moved into the small Second World War plot. This plot contains only ten of the 127 Second World War burials, but three casualties whose graves elsewhere in the cemetery could not be individually marked are commemorated there by special memorials.
Just before the chapel area on the left can be seen the large white memorial to the Stamp family. Josiah Charles, the first Baron Stamp, an economist and financier, was killed together with his wife, by a German bomb on 16 April 1941. His son and heir was killed by the same bomb, but was deemed to have survived his father by a few seconds, and to have inherited his peerage during that time: Wilfred Carlyle, the second Baron Stamp, is the briefest incumbent of any peerage.
Address: Beckenham Crematorium & Cemetery Company (privately owned)
Elmers End Road
Beckenham
Kent
BR3 4TD
Nearest station: Birkbeck
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- Added: 18 Apr 2003
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 1961414
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