Wandsworth (Earlsfield) Cemetery

• Country United Kingdom
• Total identified casualties 601 Find these casualties
• Region London
• Identified casualties from First & Second World War
• GPS Coordinates Latitude: 51.44408, Longitude: -0.18315

Location information

This is to the North-East of Earlsfield Station and is bounded by the Magdalen Road on the East and the main railway line on the West. It contains five 1914-1918 War Plots, (the general Military Plot, the Australian, the Newfoundland, the New Zealand and the South African plots. These are on the main path leading West from Magdalen Road and there are also over 200 burials in other parts of the cemetery. The Military Plot contains a Screen Wall bearing the names of those buried in it and those in unmarked graves in other parts of the cemetery. The majority of the 1939-1945 burials are scattered throughout the cemetery but there is one group of six burials together in a War Plot near the main entrance. Again, those whose graves are unmarked are also named upon the Screen Wall, Panel 1.

History information

Many of the 1914-1918 burials are from the 3rd London General Hospital which was at Wandsworth. There are 477 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war and 115 of the 1939-1945 war here. There are also 5 non-war service burials here.