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Penzance Cemetery

  • Country United Kingdom
  • Total identified casualties 110 Find these casualties
  • Region Cornwall
  • Identified casualties from First & Second World War
  • GPS Coordinates Latitude: 50.12475, Longitude: -5.54784
PENZANCE CEMETERY - CWGC
PENZANCE CEMETERY - CWGC
PENZANCE CEMETERY - CWGC
PENZANCE CEMETERY - CWGC

History information

Penzance Cemetery contains 35 scattered burials of the First World War. Of the 71 Second World War burials, 2 are unidentified seaman. 43 of the burials are in the war graves plot, the rest scattered. The naval casualties include 22 sailors who lost their lives in an attack by German surface craft off Mount's Bay on 6 January 1944, 17 of them being members of the crew of HM Trawler "Wallasea".

In addition the cemetery also contains 2 Foreign National burials of the 1914-18 war, including 1 unidentified French Merchant seaman, and 6 of the 1939-45 war, including 1 unidentified sailor of the German Navy.