North Front Cemetery Gibraltar

The majority of the men who lost their lives while at Gibraltar during the 1939-1945 War are buried on North Front Cemetery in Gibraltar. Most of their graves are in two adjacent plots at the northern end of the cemetery, but some are also scattered in other parts, like the graves from the First World War. The cemetery contains 694 Commonwealth war graves. Of these, by far most are from the Second World War.

There are French and Polish War Graves, one Dutch and one Norwegian War Grave from World War II. Also there are German War Graves of World War l. The graves are with the War Graves and a Memorial to the Prussian victims who died at the Battle of Tres Forcas was a battle on 7 august 1856.

On 29 May 1937, the German battleship 'Deutschland', which supported the Nationalists, was attacked by two Republican Tupolev SB-2 ‘Katiuska’ bombers. 23 crewmembers were killed and another 83 injured. Later on, a few wounded also died.

On the North Front Cemetery is a "Kameradengrab (Comrades Grave)" with 27 victims.

Another mass grave contains Merchant Navy sailors who died on 18 January 1943:

ERECTED BY THE "MEDITERRANEAN MISSION TO SEAMAN"
IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF

WILLIAM THOMSON
BERNARD GRAHAM
THOMAS DICKSON
IVOR BLACKFORD
HENRY ANDERSON
JAMES BLACK
WILLIAM BARRY
FREDERICK COSIER
JOHN FREE
JOHN WILSON
PETER WITHERS
ROBERT MUIR

MERCHANT SEAMAN WHO DIED
AT THE RESULTS OF AN EXPLOSIAN
ON BOARD S.S. EMPIRE RUSKIN
18 JANUARI 1943

The burial place Gibraltar North Front Cemetery contains the grave of the following person, who fought for the United Kingdom and who gave his life in the war in Iraq and/or Operation Iraqi Freedom:

29 June 2005 , Signaller Paul William Didsbury, aged 18

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Tito Vallejo (1), Tom Timmermans (2, 3, 4, 5)