Jesmond Old Cemetery is a Victorian cemetery in

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, founded in 1834. It contains two Grade II listed buildings and seven Grade II listed monuments as well as the graves of dozens of notable people from the history of Tyneside. The cemetery was designed by John Dobson who was himself later buried in the cemetery. There are ten Commonwealth service personnel buried in this cemetery, eight from

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and two from

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CWGC Cemetery Report. Breakdown obtained from casualties record.

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Friends of Jesmond Old Cemetery
Accessed March 2011 Cemeteries in Tyne and Wear Buildings and structures in Newcastle upon Tyne 1834 establishments in England {{UK-cemetery-stub