Stranton Grange Cemetery is located in Tanfield Road,

Stranton Stranton is an area of south Hartlepool in the borough of Hartlepool, County Durham, England. It is a former village and parish. The ancient parish boundaries were the North Sea to the east, Greatham Creek, an arm of the Tees, to the south, the ...

Hartlepool Hartlepool () is a seaside and port town in County Durham, England. It is the largest settlement and administrative centre of the Borough of Hartlepool. With an estimated population of 90,123, it is the second-largest settlement in County ...

. It is also the site of Hartlepool Crematorium. It opened in May 1912. It now covers over 30 acres in extent.

War graves

The cemetery contains the war graves of 43 Commonwealth service personnel of the

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and 132 of the

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. Those of the former war are scattered throughout the cemetery where, after that war, the

Commonwealth War Graves Commission The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations mil ...

erected a

Cross of Sacrifice The Cross of Sacrifice is a Commonwealth war memorial designed in 1918 by Sir Reginald Blomfield for the Imperial War Graves Commission (now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission). It is present in Commonwealth war cemeteries containing 40 or ...

in the main entrance of the cemetery. Early in the second war the local authorities set aside ground behind the Cross for war service burials, on which has grown the present War Graves Plot.

Notable interments

* Theophilus Jones, age 29, Private, 18th Battalion,

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, the first soldier to die on English soil as a result of enemy action in 200 years when the Hartlepool was bombarded by German ships in 1914.

References

External links

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Stranton Grange Cemetery and Crematorium Services

Stranton Grange Crematorium

Stranton Grange Cemetery burials 1920–1944
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