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词条 Hastings Cemetery
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  1. Notable burials

  2. War graves

  3. References

  4. External links

Hastings Cemetery is a cemetery in Hastings, East Sussex, England.

The cemetery was opened on 28 November 1856. The Church of England section was consecrated by Ashurst Gilbert, Bishop of Chichester, followed by a service in All Saints Church.[1]

Hastings Crematorium is located within the cemetery. It was built in 1955, incorporating two Gothic-style burial chapels built in 1856 of local sandstone.[2]

Notable burials

  • Major-General Sir Edward Anson (1826–1925), army officer
  • Major-General John Granville Harkness (1831–1900), army officer[3]
  • Arthur Foord Hughes (1856–1914), artist[4]
  • George Monger (1840–1887)
  • W. S. Penley (1851–1912), singer, actor and comedian
  • Sergiusz Piasecki (1901–1964), Polish novelist
  • Arthur Banks Skinner (1861–1911), director of the Victoria and Albert Museum[5]
  • Anna McNeill Whistler (1804–1881), the subject of the painting Whistler's Mother
  • William McNeill Whistler (1836–1900)

War graves

Hastings Cemetery contains the war graves of 176 Commonwealth service personnel (including two unidentified Royal Navy sailors) of World War I and 69 of World War II. Those whose graves could not be individually marked are listed on a Screen Wall Memorial. There are also buried here a Belgian army soldier of World War I and a German soldier and six German airmen of World War II.[6]

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Exploring Hastings Cemetery|url=http://www.friendsofhastingscemetery.org.uk/|website=Friends Of Hastings Cemetery|accessdate=24 July 2014}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://friendsofhastingscemetery.org.uk/crematorium.html|website=friendsofhastingscemetery.org.uk|title=Crematorium|accessdate=1 August 2017}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.friendsofhastingscemetery.org.uk/harknessjg.html|publisher=friendsofhastingscemetery.org.uk|title=Harkness, John Granville|accessdate=10 September 2016}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://friendsofhastingscemetery.org.uk/hughesaf.html|title=Hughes, Arthur Foord|publisher=Friends of Hastings Cemetery|accessdate=4 January 2016}}
5. ^{{cite web|title=BK F01 Arthur Banks Skinner BA FSA|url=http://www.friendsofhastingscemetery.org.uk/skinnerab.html|website=Friends Of Hastings Cemetery|accessdate=24 July 2014}}
6. ^{{cite web|title=Hastings Cemetery, with list of casualties |url= http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/73182/HASTINGS%20CEMETERY,%20SUSSEX |publisher= Commonwealth War Graves Commission |accessdate= 16 December 2016}}

External links

  • Friends of Hastings Cemetery
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2 : Cemeteries in East Sussex|Burials at Hastings Cemetery

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