Poplar Grove National Cemetery

The National Cemeteries in the U.S.A. are used for graves of war dead, graves of U.S. military personnel, veterans and their spouses but not exclusively so. There are also special state veteran cemeteries.

Poplar Grove National Cemetery mainly contains graves of Union war dead.. There are also some graves of war dead or veterans from other conflicts, inclusing one for a British soldier from World War I.

Poplar Grove National Cemetery contains one Commonwealth war grave, of Company Sergeant Major George Mayor Symons who died of the flu while at Camp Lee, on 8 October 1918.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Ronald Walton - Find a Grave (1), Mandy G. - Find a Grave (2), Findagrave/Mandy G. (3)