# West Derby Cemetery

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Cemetery in Liverpool, England

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**West Derby Cemetery**, Lower House Lane, [Croxteth](/source/Croxteth). Opened in January 1884 it has been used for [Church of England](/source/Church_of_England), [Roman Catholic](/source/Roman_Catholic) and [Jewish](/source/Jewish) burials. Various buildings at the cemetery are Grade II [listed buildings](/source/Listed_building).

The cemetery contains 108 Commonwealth service war graves of [World War I](/source/World_War_I) and 129 of [World War II](/source/World_War_II), scattered in the different denominational plots. Marked war graves from the latter war include Czech [Battle of Britain](/source/Battle_of_Britain) veteran [Jindrich Bartos](/source/Jindrich_Bartos) (within Roman Catholic section).[1] Casualties whose graves could not be marked by [CWGC](/source/Commonwealth_War_Graves_Commission) headstones are listed on the two denominational Screen Wall memorials. The CWGC also care for 2 foreign nationals' war graves.[2]

## Notable burials

- [Peter Craven](/source/Peter_Craven)[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

- [Tommy Burns (diver)](/source/Tommy_Burns_(diver))[3]

- [Freddie Starr](/source/Freddie_Starr)[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

## Gallery

		- Entrance to West Derby Cemetery

## See also

- [Burial Act 1857](/source/Burial_Act_1857)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [\[1\]](http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2412422/BARTOS,%20JINDRICH) CWGC Casualty Record, Jindrich Bartos

1. **[^](#cite_ref-cwgc_2-0)** [\[2\]](http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/40709/LIVERPOOL%20(WEST%20DERBY)%20CEMETERY) CWGC Cemetery report.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Tommy Burns, The Diver"](https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3271406/3271408/18/LIVERPOOL). *Evening Express*. 8 July 1897. Retrieved 25 July 2021.

## External links

- [Welcome liverpool-ancestors.co.uk – Justhost.com](http://www.liverpool-ancestors.co.uk/war/cemeteryrecs.htm) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20070613130918/http://liverpool-ancestors.co.uk/war/cemeteryrecs.htm) 13 June 2007 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine)

- [West Derby Cemetery](https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2098442) at [Find a Grave](/source/Find_a_Grave)

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