Hastings Cemetery is a cemetery in

Hastings Hastings () is a large seaside town and borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England, east to the county town of Lewes and south east of London. The town gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place to the north-west ...

, East Sussex, England. The cemetery was opened on 28 November 1856. The Church of England section was consecrated by

Ashurst Gilbert Ashurst Turner Gilbert (14 May 1786 – 21 February 1870) was an English churchman and academic, Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, from 1822 and bishop of Chichester. Life The son of Thomas Gilbert of Ratcliffe, Buckinghamshire, a capta ...

, Bishop of Chichester, followed by a service in All Saints Church. Hastings Crematorium is located within the cemetery. It was built in 1955, incorporating two Gothic-style burial chapels built in 1856 of local sandstone.

Notable burials

* Major-General Sir

Edward Anson Major-General Sir Archibald Edward Harbord Anson , , (16 April 1826 – 26 February 1925), was a British military commander from the Anson family. Background and education Anson was born at 32 Devonshire Place, London, the youngest son of Maj ...

(1826–1925), army officer *

Frederick Chamier Frederick Chamier (2 November 1796 – 29 October 1870) was an English novelist, autobiographer and naval captain born in London. He was the author of several nautical novels that remained popular through the 19th century. Life Chamier was the s ...

(1796–1870), Royal Navy officer and writer * Major-General

John Granville Harkness John Granville Harkness, J.P. (29 January 1831 – 22 June 1900) was a major-general in the British Army during the Victorian era. Early life Harkness was born 29 January 1831 at Limehouse, London, to John Samuel Harkness, MD (1797–18 ...

(1831–1900), army officer * Arthur Foord Hughes (1856–1914), artist *

George Monger George Monger (3 March 1840 – 9 August 1887) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Details Mo ...

(1840–1887) *

W. S. Penley William Sydney Penley (19 November 1851 – 11 November 1912) was an English actor, singer and comedian who had an early success in the small role of the Foreman in Gilbert and Sullivan's ''Trial by Jury''. He later achieved wider fame as produc ...

(1851–1912), singer, actor, and comedian *

Sergiusz Piasecki Sergiusz Piasecki (; 1901 in Lachowicze near Baranowicze – 1964 in Penley, London) was one of the best known Belarusian-Polish writers of the mid 20th century. He was mainly portraying life of criminals and lowlifes of Minsk, which he knew v ...

(1901–1964), Belarusian-Polish novelist *

Arthur Banks Skinner Arthur Banks Skinner (1861–1911) was Director of the Art Museum division of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London from 1905 to 1908. He died before he was 50 years of age. Born in Kingsland, London, 4 September 1861 eldest child of accountant ...

(1861–1911), director of the

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...

Anna McNeill Whistler Anna Matilda (née McNeill) Whistler (September 27, 1804 – January 31, 1881) was the mother of American-born, British-based painter James McNeill Whistler, who made her the subject of his famous painting ''Arrangement in Grey and Black N ...

(1804–1881), the subject of the painting ''

Whistler's Mother ''Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1'', best known under its colloquial name ''Whistler's Mother'' or ''Portrait of Artist's Mother'', is a painting in oils on canvas created by the American-born painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler in 1871. T ...

'' *

William McNeill Whistler William McNeill Whistler (July 22, 1836 – February 27, 1900) was an American physician and a medical army officer for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. He was the younger brother of artist James McNeill Whistler. Early life W ...

(1836–1900)

War graves

Hastings Cemetery contains the war graves of 176 Commonwealth service personnel (including two unidentified

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...

sailors) of

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

and 69 of

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. Those whose graves could not be individually marked are listed on a Screen Wall Memorial. There are also buried here a Belgian army soldier of World War I and a German soldier and six German airmen of World War II.

References

External links

Friends of Hastings Cemetery
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