Plumstead Cemetery is a

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...

in Plumstead, southeast

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. It is situated south-east of

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, to the north of Wickham Lane, west of Lodge Hill, and south of Bostall Wood. The cemetery was opened in 1890 by Woolwich Burial Board in former parkland, to the west of Woolwich cemetery. It has a plot of graves holding civilian war dead from Woolwich, 187 Commonwealth war graves (106 from the

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and 81 from the

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), the graves of two former mayors of Woolwich (Col Sir Edwin Hughes, Woolwich's first MP and first mayor of Woolwich in 1900/01, and Albert Gorman, mayor in 1940/41), and, to the north of the cemetery's chapel, a memorial to victims of two accidental explosions in 1903 at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich.

Memorials

Notable burials include: *

Charles Booth Brackenbury Charles Booth Brackenbury (7 November 1831 – 20 June 1890) was a British major general and military correspondent, part of a Lincolnshire family whose members fought in nearly all of Britain's wars of the 19th century. He saw service in the Crim ...

(1831–1890) * Thomas Flawn VC (1857–1925) * Sir Edwin Hughes MP (1832–1904) * Alfred Smith VC (1861–1932)

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* {{coord, 51.4747, 0.1109, type:landmark_region:GB, display=title Cemeteries in London Parks and open spaces in the Royal Borough of Greenwich Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in England