West Derby Cemetery

{{Short description|Cemetery in Liverpool, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox Cemetery |name = West Derby Cemetery |image =West_Derby_Cemetery_3.jpg |imagesize = 200px |caption = Path at West Derby Cemetery |established = |country = [[England]] |location = [[Croxteth]] |coordinates =  |type = Public |owner = Liverpool City Council |size_acre = |graves = |website = {{URL|http://liverpool-ancestors.co.uk/}} |findagraveid = 2098442 }} '''West Derby Cemetery''', Lower House Lane, [[Croxteth]]. Opened in January 1884 it has been used for [[Church of England]], [[Roman Catholic]] and [[Jewish]] burials. Various buildings at the cemetery are Grade II [[listed building]]s.

The cemetery contains 108 Commonwealth service war graves of [[World War I]] and 129 of [[World War II]], scattered in the different denominational plots. Marked war graves from the latter war include Czech [[Battle of Britain]] veteran [[Jindrich Bartos]] (within Roman Catholic section).<ref>[http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2412422/BARTOS,%20JINDRICH] CWGC Casualty Record, Jindrich Bartos</ref> Casualties whose graves could not be marked by [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission|CWGC]] headstones are listed on the two denominational Screen Wall memorials. The CWGC also care for 2 foreign nationals' war graves.<ref name="cwgc">[http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/40709/LIVERPOOL%20(WEST%20DERBY)%20CEMETERY] CWGC Cemetery report.</ref>

==Notable burials== * [[Peter Craven]]{{cn|date=June 2025}} * [[Tommy Burns (diver)]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3271406/3271408/18/LIVERPOOL |title=Tommy Burns, The Diver |newspaper=Evening Express |date= 8 July 1897 |access-date=25 July 2021}}</ref> * [[Freddie Starr]]{{cn|date=June 2025}}

==Gallery== <gallery> Entrance to West Derby Cemetery.jpg|Entrance to West Derby Cemetery </gallery>

==See also== * [[Burial Act 1857]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [http://www.liverpool-ancestors.co.uk/war/cemeteryrecs.htm Welcome liverpool-ancestors.co.uk – Justhost.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070613130918/http://liverpool-ancestors.co.uk/war/cemeteryrecs.htm |date=13 June 2007 }} * {{Find a Grave cemetery}} {{commons category|West Derby Cemetery}}

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