Putney Vale Cemetery
Putney Vale Cemetery and Crematorium in southwest London is located in Putney Vale, surrounded by Putney Heath and Wimbledon Common and Richmond Park. It is located within 47 acres (19 ha) of parkland. The cemetery was opened in 1891 and the crematorium in 1938. The cemetery was originally laid out on land which had belonged to Newlands Farm, which was established in the medieval period.[1]
The cemetery has two chapels, one being a traditional Church of England chapel and the other being used for multi-denomination or non-religious services. It has a large Garden of Remembrance.[2]
There are 87 Commonwealth war grave burials from the First World War and 97 from the Second World War in the cemetery. Six Victoria Cross recipients have been buried or cremated here.[3] The burials are scattered throughout the grounds of the cemetery and a Screen Wall Memorial has been erected to record the names of those whose graves are not marked by headstones. Those who have been cremated at Putney Vale Crematorium also have their names recorded on these panels.[4]
journalist and children's author
Ellinor Lily Davenport Adams
actress and model (cremated)
Julie Alexander
actor
Peter Arne
comedian and actor (cremated)
Arthur Askey
Welsh actor and film producer (cremated, ashes scattered near Ferndale, Glamorgan)
Sir Stanley Baker
British diplomat, ambassador to Venezuela, Chile, Switzerland and Bulgaria
Sir Henry George Outram Bax-Ironside
actor (cremated)
Robert Beatty
actor noted for his role as Private Joe Walker, the Cockney spiv in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army (cremated)
James Beck
actor
John Bindon
silver medal-winning Olympian (cremated)
Lillian Board MBE
World War I Victoria Cross recipient (cremated)
William Boulter
archaeologist and Egyptologist, noted as a primary discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun.[7]
Howard Carter
Royal Marine Officer during Second Anglo-Burmese War in 1851–52
Lt-Col. Sir Henry Dickonson Nightingale, 13th Baronet
Admiral Herbert Charles Campbell da Costa, Royal Navy flag officer in
First World War
racing driver
Alain de Cadenet
barrister and the eighth of 10 children born to author Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine.[9]
Henry Fielding Dickens
racing driver.
Clive Dunfee
sculptor.
Sir Jacob Epstein
20th century Iranian poet.
Golchin Gilani
Alexander Gordon, co-owner of the Niles Tool Works. A photograph of his mausoleum was used by on the Sin After Sin album cover.
Judas Priest
Lieutenant Colonel , World War I Victoria Cross recipient
Harry Greenwood
local resident and member of Guinness brewing family, early motor racer and entrepreneur behind the famous Putney Vale-made KLG spark plugs
Kenelm Lee Guinness
Lieutenant Colonel , World War I Victoria Cross recipient (cremated)
Reginald Hayward
Eugen Hersch, artist and portrait painter whose subjects included President and Joseph Joachim.
Paul von Hindenburg
newspaper proprietor
Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet
John Ingram, 32, a grave digger at Putney Vale who died in a freak accident, hit in the chest from a stray bullet from the rifle range at . Buried yards from where he fell, leaving a pregnant wife and infant daughter. Each year on 22 May, local resident John Cooper lays flowers on the man's grave.
Wimbledon Common
Anglo-American utilities magnate
Samuel Insull
chairman of White Star Line and a passenger of its ship RMS Titanic, and wife Julia Florence Ismay
J. Bruce Ismay
exiled former Russian prime minister and leading figure in the Russian revolution of 1917, until Vladimir Lenin took over.
Alexander Kerensky
CMG KCVO, soldier and diplomat
Sir John Lambert
painter
Hazel, Lady Lavery
painter
Sir John Lavery
hotelier of the Cavendish, Jermyn Street, known as the "Queen of Cooks" and "Duchess of Duke Street"[14]
Rosa Lewis
Sir John William Lorden, resident of Ravenswood, Putney Hill and former president of the National Federation of Property Owners and Ratepayers
[15]
British actor
Hilary Minster
OM, politician, ashes buried here after cremation at Golders Green
The 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
actor (The Boys in the Band)
Kenneth Nelson
,KBE, RA, RHA, Irish artist and portrait painter, prolific official war artist during World War I.
Sir William Orpen
actor and singer (cremated)
Lance Percival
OBE, creator of the world's longest running radio programme, BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs
Roy Plomley
actress (cremated)
Nyree Dawn Porter OBE
British ethnographer, anthropologist and adventurer
William Scoresby Routledge
pioneer naval aviator.
Charles Rumney Samson
noted pre-Second World War Grand Prix driver for Mercedes-Benz, who still maintain his grave
Richard Seaman
Edwin Tate, son of of Tate & Lyle sugar refining fame, in a family mausoleum inscribed with the family motto "Thincke and Thancke"[16]
Henry Tate
born Matilda Alice Powles, a male impersonator, who was a star in both Britain and the US for over 30 years.
Vesta Tilley
James Keen, (1994-2023), Raconteur, adventurer, philosopher, humanitarian and family man. (Cremated)
Funerals held at Putney Vale include those of:
Photo Gallery of Putney Vale Cemetery
Find A Grave at Putney Vale Cemetery
Profile of Putney Vale Cemetery
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