Green Lane Cemetery is a small cemetery on Green Lane in

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, one of four cemeteries owned and maintained by Farnham Town Council. George Sturt grave Farnham 2019

The Chapel and Cemetery were opened in 1914 and are on a hill which commands views across to the West of Farnham and

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. The Chapel could seat up to 80 people but had little use in recent years and was sold by Farnham Town Council for use as a Meeting House for the

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. The cemetery is divided into six sections allowing for the burial of different denominations; there is a small children's area and an area dedicated to the interment of cremated remains.Wrecclesham Cemeteries – Wrecclesham History Group database
/ref> The cemetery has 13 military burials, two from

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and eleven from

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, the latter including two pilots – P/O Evelyn Creen Stuart Wilson-Steele of 219 Squadron (killed 1942) and Sgt Michael Henry John Kilburn. Kilburn joined the RAFVR aged 18 to train as a pilot and was completing his last two weeks of training when he was killed during a training flight in January 1942. He was initially buried along with the other seven members of his crew at Dyce Old Churchyard near

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. However, his family in Farnham must have applied to the RAF to have his remains returned to his home town and in 1943 he was reinterred in the plot here. Buried nearby is Lt Ernest Lyford of the

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who was accidentally killed in 1943 aged 55 while training with bombs.

Notable burials

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in a series of silent films.Notable burials – Farnham Town Council website
/ref> * Sir Robert Pringle (1855–1925) Director-General of the Army Veterinary Corps 1910–1917 * George Sturt (1863–1927), English writer on rural crafts and affairs

References

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