Dunoon Cemetery

Dunoon Cemetery is a cemetery in Dunoon, Scotland. It is accessed either by Hamilton Road or by Bogleha' Road.^[1][2] The original section of the cemetery is 1.78 acres (0.72 ha), while its extension is 1.57 acres (0.64 ha).^[1]

Dunoon Cemetery
The Bogleha' Road entrance, pictured in 2012
Details
Established	1857 (168 years ago) (1857)
Location	Hamilton Street, Dunoon
Country	Scotland
Coordinates	55.956466°N 4.931882°W / 55.956466; -4.931882
Owned by	Argyll and Bute Council
Find a Grave	Dunoon Cemetery

As of 2003^[update], the cemetery, which is owned by Argyll and Bute Council, contained 3,546 gravestones, with the earliest dating to 1857.^[1]

On 30 May 1943, HMS Untamed sank during a training exercise in the Firth of Clyde with the loss of all 35 of her crew.^[3][4] All of the dead, including 23-year-old lieutenant John Priestly Duncan,^[5] were buried in Dunoon Cemetery, while the war memorial in nearby Sandbank is partly dedicated to them.^[6]

Notable interments

• Robert Alexander Bryden (1841–1906), architect
• Robert Buchanan (1785–1873), playwright

• 
  The 35 graves of the crew of HMS Untamed