PLYMOUTH (EFFORD) CEMETERY
Devon
England
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.39092, Longitude: -4.10999
Location Information
Efford Cemetery is located North-East of the City Centre off Efford Road
Visiting Information
The cemetery is open daily to pedestrians from 0900 to 1630 and to vehicles from 0900 to 1600 weekdays and from 1100 to 1500 at weekends.
Historical Information
During the First World War, Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse contained between them the Royal Dockyard, Royal Naval Barracks (known as H.M.S. Vivid), the Royal Marine Barracks of the Plymouth Division, and naval and military hospitals. For the duration of the war, Devonport was made headquarters of the Auxiliary Patrol Area.
Plymouth was a naval station second only to Portsmouth during the Second World War. Devonport was also an important military station and there was a R.A.F station at Mount Batten, opposite Plymouth.
Plymouth (Efford) Cemetery contains 338 scattered burials of the First World War. The 109 Second World War burials, including 5 unidentified, are also scattered apart from a small group in Section C, in a plot set aside for service burials that was actually little used. The Commission also maintains five non-war burials within the cemetery and 12 war graves of other nationalities, most of them Greek merchant seamen.
Plymouth City Crematorium is situated in Plymouth (Efford) Cemetery and 61 servicemen and women of the Second World War whose remains were cremated there are commemorated on a screen wall set into a recess in the hedge behind the Cross of Sacrifice.
Total Commission Burials: 465.
World War One Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 203, Australia 48, Canada 45, New Zealand 22, South Africa 21, Greece 10. Total 349.
World War two Identified Casualties: United KIngdom 98, Australia 4, Canada 2, Poland 1. Total 105.
Efford Cemetery is located North-East of the City Centre off Efford Road
Visiting Information
The cemetery is open daily to pedestrians from 0900 to 1630 and to vehicles from 0900 to 1600 weekdays and from 1100 to 1500 at weekends.
Historical Information
During the First World War, Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse contained between them the Royal Dockyard, Royal Naval Barracks (known as H.M.S. Vivid), the Royal Marine Barracks of the Plymouth Division, and naval and military hospitals. For the duration of the war, Devonport was made headquarters of the Auxiliary Patrol Area.
Plymouth was a naval station second only to Portsmouth during the Second World War. Devonport was also an important military station and there was a R.A.F station at Mount Batten, opposite Plymouth.
Plymouth (Efford) Cemetery contains 338 scattered burials of the First World War. The 109 Second World War burials, including 5 unidentified, are also scattered apart from a small group in Section C, in a plot set aside for service burials that was actually little used. The Commission also maintains five non-war burials within the cemetery and 12 war graves of other nationalities, most of them Greek merchant seamen.
Plymouth City Crematorium is situated in Plymouth (Efford) Cemetery and 61 servicemen and women of the Second World War whose remains were cremated there are commemorated on a screen wall set into a recess in the hedge behind the Cross of Sacrifice.
Total Commission Burials: 465.
World War One Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 203, Australia 48, Canada 45, New Zealand 22, South Africa 21, Greece 10. Total 349.
World War two Identified Casualties: United KIngdom 98, Australia 4, Canada 2, Poland 1. Total 105.
5445297 Private
Edward Chinner
4th Bn. Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
20th December 1942, aged 22.
Sec. C. Cons. Grave 10388.
Son of Samuel James Chinner and Florence Helen Mary Chinner; husband of Iris Chinner, of Efford, Plymouth.
His headstone bears the inscription "Whatever Else We Fail To Do We Never Fail To Think Of You. Iris And Baby Terry"
Edward Chinner
4th Bn. Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
20th December 1942, aged 22.
Sec. C. Cons. Grave 10388.
Son of Samuel James Chinner and Florence Helen Mary Chinner; husband of Iris Chinner, of Efford, Plymouth.
His headstone bears the inscription "Whatever Else We Fail To Do We Never Fail To Think Of You. Iris And Baby Terry"
