Commonwealth War Graves Scartho Road Cemetery

Scartho Road Cemetery in Grimsby contains 281 scattered burials of the First World War. During the Second World War, boats of the Grimsby fishing fleet were attacked at sea and the town and port were bombed many times, incurring casualties among servicemen as well as civilians. The cemetery contains 258 Second World War burials, almost 200 of them forming a war graves plot. There are also 17 war burials of other nationalities, many of them German prisoners of war from the camp at nearby Weelsby.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Commonwealth War Graves Commission