Clayhall Naval Cemetery
Also known as Clayhall Royal Naval Cemetery , Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery
Gosport, Gosport Borough, Hampshire, England
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Gosport, Gosport Borough, Hampshire PO12 2BB. EnglandCoordinates: 50.78339, -1.13734 - Cemetery ID:
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Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery is located in Gosport, a town on the western shore of Portsmouth Harbor. During both wars, Gosport was a significant sea port and naval depot, with many government factories and installations based there, as well as the Haslar Naval Hospital. No. 5 Squadron Royal Flying Corps were based at Gosport just before the outbreak of the First World War, and during the Second World War the town acted as base to No. 17 Group Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy Light Coastal Forces.
Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery, which was attached to the Naval Hospital of 2,000 beds, contains 763 First World War graves, 2 of which are unidentified. Most are scattered throughout the cemetery, but the 42 officers and men of HM Submarine "L.55" whose bodies were brought back from the Baltic in 1928 lie together in a collective grave and their names appear on a Screen Wall Memorial. The Second World War graves number 611, 36 of them unidentified. A number of the graves are scattered throughout the cemetery, but the majority lie together in one or other or five groups, the largest of which contains more than 350 burials, the smallest 25. There are also 10 foreign national war burials and 9 non-world war service burials here.
Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery is located in Gosport, a town on the western shore of Portsmouth Harbor. During both wars, Gosport was a significant sea port and naval depot, with many government factories and installations based there, as well as the Haslar Naval Hospital. No. 5 Squadron Royal Flying Corps were based at Gosport just before the outbreak of the First World War, and during the Second World War the town acted as base to No. 17 Group Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy Light Coastal Forces.
Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery, which was attached to the Naval Hospital of 2,000 beds, contains 763 First World War graves, 2 of which are unidentified. Most are scattered throughout the cemetery, but the 42 officers and men of HM Submarine "L.55" whose bodies were brought back from the Baltic in 1928 lie together in a collective grave and their names appear on a Screen Wall Memorial. The Second World War graves number 611, 36 of them unidentified. A number of the graves are scattered throughout the cemetery, but the majority lie together in one or other or five groups, the largest of which contains more than 350 burials, the smallest 25. There are also 10 foreign national war burials and 9 non-world war service burials here.
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- Added: 22 Mar 2008
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2254398
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