Alperton Cemetery

• Country United Kingdom
• Total identified casualties 77 Find these casualties
• Region Middlesex
• Identified casualties from First & Second World War
• GPS Coordinates Latitude: 51.54341, Longitude: -0.30646

Location information

Alperton is in the extreme south of the municipal borough of Wembley, about seven miles north-west of London. The cemetery was formerly known as "Wembley New Burial Ground" to distinguish it from the other cemetery called "Wembley Old Burial Ground". It is owned by the Wembley Borough Council and covers over ten acres lying between Bridgewater Road and Clifford Road on the east and the Grand Union Canal on the west half a mile north-west of Alperton (District line) railway station.

History information

During the early months of the 1939-1945 War, ground was set aside by the local authorities for war burials, in Plot D.D. on the north-western side of the cemetery. This became the War Graves Plot and contains 33 service war burials, the remainder being scattered elsewhere in the cemetery. Also buried in the cemetery is an Australian veteran soldier of the 1914-1918 War, whose grave is maintained by the Commission on behalf of the Australian Government. The War Graves Plot is surrounded by a path, which is cut off by the canal on the south-west corner. The war graves, which are set in level turf, are on the southern side of the plot, the graves on the north side being those of members of the Auxiliary Fire Service and of civilian war dead for which the headstones were supplied by the Borough Council. The two distinct groups of graves are separated by a central avenue, at the head of which stands the Cross of Sacrifice. In the corner to the left of the Cross is an oak seat.

There is now 1 Commonwealth burial of the 1914-1918 war and 76 of the 1939-1945 war in this cemetery. 1 veteran soldier and 32 civilian war burials are also maintained here.