| 词条 | Gunnersbury Cemetery | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| name = Gunnersbury Cemetery | image = Gunnersbury Cemetery - geograph.org.uk - 8933.jpg | imagesize = 300px | caption = Gate of the Gunnersbury Cemetery | map_type = | map_size = | map_caption = | established = 1929 | country = United Kingdom | location = 143 Gunnersbury Avenue Acton LONDON W3 8LE | coordinates = {{coord|51.49497|-0.28350|display=inline}} | type = Public | owner = Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea | size = {{convert|8.9|ha}} | graves = | website = | findagraveid= 859637 }} Gunnersbury Cemetery, also known as Kensington or New Kensington Cemetery, is a cemetery opened in 1929. Although it is owned and managed by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea,[1] it is geographically located within the London Borough of Hounslow at 143, Gunnersbury Avenue in Acton - and is bordered by the London Borough of Ealing. HistoryA triangle of land between the Gunnersbury Avenue and the Great West Road, part of the Gunnersbury Park, was bought in 1925 from the Rothschild family by the Royal Borough. The cemetery was founded soon afterwards, in 1929, on the former parkland.[2] Location and facilitiesThe cemetery is situated adjacent to Gunnersbury Park and covers about 8.9 hectares. It has numerous floral displays and shrubberies, and a chapel.[1] The cemetery's buildings, including the chapel, are simple brick structures.[3] A Garden of Remembrance serves as the place for the interment of cremated remains.[2] There is also a Book of Remembrance for memorial inscriptions.[2] Gunnersbury Cemetery is the location of the main office for both the Borough's cemeteries (the other being the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Cemetery, Hanwell).[1] A notable landmark at the cemetery is a monument, in the form of a black obelisk, dedicated to the Polish victims of the Katyn massacre.[3] It was designed by Louis Fitzgibbon and Count Stefan Zamoyski.[3] This monument was unveiled on 18 September 1976 amid considerable controversy.[3][11] During the period of the Cold War, successive British governments objected to plans by the UK's Polish community to build a major monument to commemorate the massacre. The Soviet Union did not want Katyn to be remembered, and put pressure on Britain to prevent the creation of the monument.[4][5] As a result, the construction of the Katyn monument was delayed for many years.[6][7] After the local community had finally secured the right to build the monument, no official government representative was present at the opening ceremony (although some Members of Parliament did attend the event unofficially).[6][7][5] Gunnersbury cemetery also contains the graves of 49 Commonwealth service personnel of World War II.[8] There used to be a notable sculpture by Nereo Cescott in the cemetery but it was destroyed by vandals prior to 1994.[2][3] Opening hours
BurialsAs of January 2010 Find a Grave describes this cemetery as having "49 famous interments."[10] They include:
References1. ^1 2 Official entry on the Royal Borough's Libraries 2. ^1 2 3 Cemeteries services, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea 3. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite book|author=Hugh Meller|title=London cemeteries: an illustrated guide and gazetteer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8-ROAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=14 January 2011|date=10 March 1994|publisher=Scolar Press|isbn=978-0-85967-997-8|page=139}} 4. ^{{cite book|author=George Sanford|title=Katyn and the Soviet massacre of 1940: truth, justice and memory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ayq3CpH69HMC&pg=PA195|accessdate=16 February 2011|year=2005|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-33873-8|pages=195–}} 5. ^1 2 {{cite book|author1=Anna M. Cienciala|author2=Wojciech Materski|title=Katyn: a crime without punishment|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SyimWfkx0-MC&pg=PA244|accessdate=16 February 2011|year=2007|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-10851-4|pages=243–245}} 6. ^1 Katyn in the Cold War, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 7. ^1 Brian Crozier, The Katyn Massacre and Beyond, National Observer, No. 44, Autumn 2000 > 8. ^ CWGC Cemetery Report. 9. ^http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/az/az.asp?searchletter=&orgid=685 10. ^Find a Grave, Gunnersbury Cemetery 11. ^[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5903552 Find a Grave], Lancers & families, 24th 12. ^[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5903334 Find a Grave], Denzil Batchelor 13. ^[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5903333 Find a Grave], Bor-Komorowski, Tadeusz 14. ^[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42471304 Find a Grave], Hugh Burden 15. ^[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5903667 Find a Grave], William Davison 16. ^[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5903446 Find a Grave], Charles Benjamin Dowse 17. ^[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5903671 Find a Grave], Matila Ghyka 18. ^[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5903443 Find a Grave], George Humphreys 19. ^Operation Chastise 20. ^[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5903334 Find a Grave], Harold Brownlow Martin 21. ^[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5903448 Find a Grave], Charles Langbridge Morgan 22. ^[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5888169 Find a Grave], John Ogdon 23. ^[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5903442 Find a Grave], Vera Page 24. ^[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5903331 Find a Grave], Carol Reed 25. ^[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5912688 Find a Grave], Prince Vsevolod Ivanovich 26. ^[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5903665 Find a Grave], Kazimierz Sabbat 27. ^[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5888057 Find a Grave], Matthew Smith 28. ^[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5903670 Find a Grave], Marda Vanne 29. ^[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11817 Find a Grave], Aston Webb 30. ^[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44223439 Find a Grave], Dixie "Elmira" Ross External links
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