Harrogate (Stonefall) Cemetery
Harrogate (Stonefall) Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) burial ground for the dead of the First World War and Second World War located on the outskirts of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England.
Harrogate (Stonefall)
1,017 (including special memorials)
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Foundation[edit]
This area of Yorkshire had many RAF bases during the Second World War. In particular, No 6 RCAF Bomber Group had headquarters at Allerton Park in nearby Knaresborough.[2]
An area of the municipal cemetery was set aside for use as a war cemetery at the start of the war and received burials, mostly from after July 1943, mostly airmen, mostly Canadians, until after the end of the war.[2] Burials are from northern airfields and the military wing of the now demolished Harrogate General Hospital in Starbeck.[2]
Within the cemetery, there are burials of or special memorials to 23 First World War troops which are dispersed across the municipal part of the cemetery.[2]
Special memorials[edit]
A special memorial commemorates six First World War troops whose graves are in local churchyards around Yorkshire and cannot be maintained by the commission.[2] The actual grave of one of those commemorated, Edgar Audsley, has since been destroyed as part of development works on the site of South Ossett Baptist Burial Ground.[9]
A plaque in the cemetery records the names of 12 servicemen of the Second World War who were cremated at Harrogate Crematorium.[10]