Plumstead Cemetery

Plumstead Cemetery is a cemetery in Plumstead, southeast London. It is situated south-east of Woolwich, to the north of Wickham Lane, west of Lodge Hill,^[1] and south of Bostall Wood.

The Cross of Sacrifice memorial in Plumstead Cemetery

The cemetery was opened in 1890 by Woolwich Burial Board in former parkland,^[2] to the west of Woolwich cemetery. It has a plot of graves holding civilian war dead from Woolwich, 187 Commonwealth war graves (106 from the First World War and 81 from the Second World War),^[3] the graves of two former mayors of Woolwich (Col Sir Edwin Hughes, Woolwich's first MP and first mayor of Woolwich in 1900/01, and Albert Gorman, mayor in 1940/41), and, to the north of the cemetery's chapel, a memorial to victims of two accidental explosions in 1903 at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich.^[4][5]

Memorials

Notable burials include:

• Charles Booth Brackenbury (1831–1890)
• Thomas Flawn VC (1857–1925)
• Sir Edwin Hughes MP (1832–1904)
• Alfred Smith VC (1861–1932)