Boston Cemetery

Boston Cemetery
Details
Established 1855
Location Boston, Lincolnshire
Country England
Coordinates 52°59′20″N 0°01′39″W / 52.9888°N 0.0274°W / 52.9888; -0.0274
No. of interments 38,000
Website Boston Cemetery
Find a Grave Boston Cemetery

Boston Cemetery is a cemetery located in Boston, Lincolnshire in England. The cemetery dates back to 1855.

Notable burials

War Graves

The cemetery contains the war graves of 82 Commonwealth service personnel. There are 50 from World War I and 30 from World War II. The graves from the former war are scattered throughout the cemetery, most of those from the latter war are in a special war graves plot, behind which is a memorial to civilians of Boston who died by enemy action in the same war. There is also one non-war grave in the war graves plot.[1]

One of the most curious graves is that of Major Walter George Burnett Dickinson FRSE FRCVS TD(1858-1914) who died of a heart attack 36 hours after the beginning of the First World War whilst requisitioning horses in the Boston area. Due to CWGC rules this still qualifies as an official "war death", making him, on paper at least, the first Major to die in the war.[2]

Another grave is that of Linley Moreton Phillips, a civilian prisoner of war in Ruhleben internment camp from 1914 to 1918, who died on the ship returning to Boston, England. [3]

References

  1. ↑ BOSTON CEMETERY CWGC Cemetery Report.
  2. ↑ http://rosma.co.uk/mw/oba/index.php?title=Walter_George_Burnett_Dickinson
  3. ↑ "An Australian's Funeral" (PDF). The Lincolnshire Standard. 23 March 1918.
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