GIBRALTAR (NORTH FRONT) CEMETERY
Gibraltar
Location Information
The Gibraltar (North Front) Cemetery (also known as Garrison Cemetery) is located about 100 metres from the airport and about 300 metres from the harbour. It stands on the low peninsula off of Devils Tower road and behind St. Teresa's Church.
GPS Co-ordinates: 36.149207, -5.344977.
West of the cemetery, close to the sea, will be found the Gibraltar Memorial which commemorates, by name, 7 soldiers from the 1914-1918 War and 91 airmen and soldiers who died during the 1939-45 War who were buried at sea.
Visiting Information
Opening times: Daily from 8am to 6pm.
Historical Information
The cemetery was used throughout the 1914-1918 War for the burial of sailors and soldiers who died on ships passing Gibraltar, or in the Military Hospital. The 1914-1918 War Graves are scattered in the different divisions of the cemetery. Originally a Cross of Sacrifice stood in the cemetery, but in 1941 it was taken down for military reasons. After the war, the original Cross was found to be too badly damaged by erosion to re-erect and the original location was found to be no longer available, so a new Cross was erected to the West of the cemetery, close to the sea, at the junction of the road into Spain and the Devil's Tower Road.
Twenty-three burials belong to H.M.S. "Britannia," sunk by a submarine off Cape Trafalgar on the 9th November 1918. There are also many graves of merchant sailors who died during the war from natural causes.
The majority of the men who lost their lives while at Gibraltar during the 1939-1945 War are buried here. Most of their graves are in two adjacent plots at the northern end of the cemetery, but some are also scattered in other parts.
The cemetery is situated on Crown land, and (with the exception of those privately owned) all the War Graves in it are registered in perpetuity in the Commission's name.
Cemetery pictures used with the permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The Gibraltar (North Front) Cemetery (also known as Garrison Cemetery) is located about 100 metres from the airport and about 300 metres from the harbour. It stands on the low peninsula off of Devils Tower road and behind St. Teresa's Church.
GPS Co-ordinates: 36.149207, -5.344977.
West of the cemetery, close to the sea, will be found the Gibraltar Memorial which commemorates, by name, 7 soldiers from the 1914-1918 War and 91 airmen and soldiers who died during the 1939-45 War who were buried at sea.
Visiting Information
Opening times: Daily from 8am to 6pm.
Historical Information
The cemetery was used throughout the 1914-1918 War for the burial of sailors and soldiers who died on ships passing Gibraltar, or in the Military Hospital. The 1914-1918 War Graves are scattered in the different divisions of the cemetery. Originally a Cross of Sacrifice stood in the cemetery, but in 1941 it was taken down for military reasons. After the war, the original Cross was found to be too badly damaged by erosion to re-erect and the original location was found to be no longer available, so a new Cross was erected to the West of the cemetery, close to the sea, at the junction of the road into Spain and the Devil's Tower Road.
Twenty-three burials belong to H.M.S. "Britannia," sunk by a submarine off Cape Trafalgar on the 9th November 1918. There are also many graves of merchant sailors who died during the war from natural causes.
The majority of the men who lost their lives while at Gibraltar during the 1939-1945 War are buried here. Most of their graves are in two adjacent plots at the northern end of the cemetery, but some are also scattered in other parts.
The cemetery is situated on Crown land, and (with the exception of those privately owned) all the War Graves in it are registered in perpetuity in the Commission's name.
Cemetery pictures used with the permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Pictures in gallery below © Nicholas Philpot
253 Private
Bruce Eager
13th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
25th June 1915, aged 30.
Plot C. 3021.
INSCRIPTION. HE DID WELL.
Son of William and the late Eliza Eager.
Click on image to enlarge
Studio portrait of 253 Private (Pte) Bruce Alexander Eager, 13th Battalion. An orchardist from Yass, NSW prior to enlistment, Pte Eager embarked with C Company from Melbourne on HMAT Ulysses on 22 December 1914. On 25 June 1915, he died of wounds received in action at Gallipoli and was buried in the Gibraltar (North Front) Cemetery. His brother 3491 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Walter Francis Eager was later killed in action in France and is buried in Lindenhoek Chalet Military Cemetery in Belgium. (Clicking on the link will take you to our WW1 site).
Bruce Eager
13th Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
25th June 1915, aged 30.
Plot C. 3021.
INSCRIPTION. HE DID WELL.
Son of William and the late Eliza Eager.
Click on image to enlarge
Studio portrait of 253 Private (Pte) Bruce Alexander Eager, 13th Battalion. An orchardist from Yass, NSW prior to enlistment, Pte Eager embarked with C Company from Melbourne on HMAT Ulysses on 22 December 1914. On 25 June 1915, he died of wounds received in action at Gallipoli and was buried in the Gibraltar (North Front) Cemetery. His brother 3491 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Walter Francis Eager was later killed in action in France and is buried in Lindenhoek Chalet Military Cemetery in Belgium. (Clicking on the link will take you to our WW1 site).
2590 Private
Martin Stanton
1st/5th Bn. East Lancashire Regiment
15th September 1915 aged 33.
Plot A. 3113.
Husband of Ada Stanton, of 12, Peter St., Burnley, Lancashire.
Martin Stanton
1st/5th Bn. East Lancashire Regiment
15th September 1915 aged 33.
Plot A. 3113.
Husband of Ada Stanton, of 12, Peter St., Burnley, Lancashire.
Group portrait of officers and men of E Company, 15th Battalion.
Identified back row, left to right: Unidentified; 730 Private (Pte) James Edward Courtney; S. Smith; 755 Lance Corporal (L/Cpl) Kenneth William Kendall; 710 L/Cpl Edward Ashton Kirby (killed in action at Gallipoli 15 June 1915); 755 Pte Francis Milton Paterson (killed in action at Gallipoli 14 May 1915); 769 Pte Kenneth Hugh McLeod (killed in action at Gallipoli 3 May 1915); 781 Pte Charles Augustus Siddons; 768 Pte Ronald McLeod (died of disease at Gallipoli 10 July 1915); 740 Pte Percy Davis (killed in action in France 4 July 1918); unidentified; 764 Alexander George McKay; 765 Pte Thomas Aubrey McKay; 747 Pte John Howard Fielding (killed in action at Gallipoli 1 May 1915).
Fifth row, left to right: 805 Pte Charles Edward Lionel West; 715 Pte Alfred John Alcock; 792 Pte John Carlisle Alvin Smith (killed in action at Gallipoli 8 August 1915); unidentified; 1816 Pte Ernest Ivey Robisson Coffey (killed in action at Gallipoli 8 August 1915); unidentified; 786 Pte Reginald George Hornby Schofield (killed in action at Gallipoli 24 May 1915); 749 Pte Henry George Hughes; 807 Pte William James Webb; 772 Pte Robert Thomas Owens; H. Vizer; 789 Pte Henry Leighton Lewis Smith; 736 Pte Ethlyn Cyril Dunstan; 751 Pte William Hogben (died of wounds at Gallipoli 17 August 1915).
Fourth row, left to right: 802 Pte Oswald Stewart Wemyss (killed in action at Gallipoli 29 April 1915); 723 Pte Percy Walter Boston (killed in action at Gallipoli 10 May 1915); 721 Pte Leslie Keith Brayley; 754 Pte James Merson Kidner (died of wounds received at Gallipoli 7 May 1915); 741 Pte Claude Arthur Daniel (killed in action at Gallipoli 3 May 1915); 780 Pte Thomas Terance Rodgers; 729 Pte Sydney Cresswell (killed in action at Gallipoli 8 August 1915); 818 Pte Leonard Lewis Daniel; 753 Pte Alfred Jackson (true name Henry Little - died of disease in England 23 October 1918); 776 Pte Francis Evan Perrett (killed in action at Gallipoli 3 May 1915); C. Gibson; 790 Pte Gordon Smith (died of wounds in France 8 September 1918); 816 Pte Stanley Clifford Cousens (killed in action in France 9 August 1916); 748 Pte Frederick Merton Heathcote.
Third row, left to right: 762 Pte Joseph Masson (died of wounds at Gallipoli 20 May 1915); 759 Pte Ernest Ross Martin (died at Gallipoli 24 May 1915); unidentified; 796 Pte Albany Smale; 806 Pte Albert Eugene Warbey (alias Warby); 731 Pte Albert Castley; 773 Pte Patrick O'Connor; 739 Pte Victor Daley; 750 Pte Charles Harold Hodsdon (died in hospital in Constantinople while POW 21 January 1916); 788 Pte Peter Simpson; 745 Pte John Fraser (killed in action at Gallipoli 6 May 1915); 727 Pte Francis Horace Cave; 744 Pte Henry Edelsten (died of wounds in France 30 August 1916); 701 Colour Sergeant (Sgt) William John Powell.
Second row, left to right: 706 Corporal (Cpl) William Mackay; 711 L/Cpl Henry Alfred Eibel (killed in action in France 11 April 1917); 767 Pte William James Herbert McGarry; 793 Pte John Gordon Scouller (killed in action at Gallipoli 9 May 1915); 712 L/Cpl Walter Seccombe (killed in action at Gallipoli 10 May 1915); 716 Pte Edward Charles Bartholomew; unidentified; 752 Pte Robert Inman; 722 Pte Arthur Beesley; 724 Pte Frederick Blake (killed in action at Gallipoli 8 August 1915); 746 Pte Norman Fuhrman (killed in action in France 11 April 1917); 702 Sgt Joseph Edward Sparks; 703 Sgt William James Taffe; 705 Cpl Edward Melia (killed in action at Gallipoli 2 May 1915).
Front row, left to right: 742 Pte Alfred Elliott; 798 Pte Arthur Norman Tweedale; 704 Sgt James Carter Treherne; 813 Sgt Casimar Edric Pennefather Ryan; 770 Lance Sgt James Stephen McNeill; Second Lieutenant (2Lt) Thomas Robertson (killed in action at Gallipoli 27 April 1915); Captain Hugh Quinn (killed in action at Gallipoli 29 May 1915); 2Lt Francis Leofric Armstrong (killed in action at Gallipoli 10 May 1915).
