Commonwealth War Graves Hylton Cemetery

Soon after the outbreak of the 1939-1945 War the Parish Council set aside a piece of ground on Hylton Cemetery in Castletown for service war burials. This is now the War Graves Plot. During the war the cemetery was used by the Royal Air Force and the majority of the war graves are those of men of the British Commonwealth and Polish Air Forces stationed there. Of the 48 war burials in the cemetery, 3 soldiers and 13 members of the Air Force belong to the United Kingdom Forces; 9 airmen to the Royal Canadian Air Force; 4 airmen to the Royal Australian Air Force; 1 sailor to the Royal New Zealand Navy and 1 airman to the Royal New Zealand Air Force; 6 airmen to the Polish Air Force; 1 German to the German Navy and 10 Germans to the German Air Force. One of the German airmen could not be identified. All save five of the 48 casualties are buried in the War Graves Plot.

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• Text: Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• Photos: Commonwealth War Graves Commission