Derbyshire WWI War Graves

The 4th August 2014 is the hundredth anniversary of the start of the First World War, during which approximately ten million military personnel died.  Most of the deaths were on the battlefields of Northern France and Belgium, but there were many who died closer to home.  In Derbyshire there are 982 WWI War Graves scattered over 157 Cemeteries and Graveyards.


In 1930 the then Imperial War Graves Commission compiled and published 'The War Graves Of The British Empire' The Register of the names of those who fell in the Great War and are buried in the Cemeteries and Churchyards in the Administrative County of Derby.  The list below is of those Cemeteries and Churchyards taken from that document in their administrative districts showing the number of Graves that each contain.


Some of the Cemeteries and Churchyards may no longer be in Derbyshire due to boundary changes that have taken place in the intervening years.  The administrative districts have also changed their names during that time.  Changes of land use have also closed some of them, the Derwent Woodlands (SS. James and John) Churchyard for instance now lies beneath the Ladybower dam reservoir, bodies from the graveyard were exhumed and reburied in Bamford.


To find the names of those buried in a particular Derbyshire Cemetery or Churchyard, or elsewhere go onto the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery.aspx and enter the relevant details.

They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

DISTRICT AND GRAVE LOCATIONS

Alfreton Urban District

Alfreton Cemetery
Alfreton (Lea Brooks) Cemetery
Alfreton (St. Martin) Churchyard
Birchwood United Methodist Church Burial Ground
Swanwick Baptist Chapel Burial Ground
Swanwick (St. Andrew) Churchyard


Alvaston and Boulton Urban District

Alvaston (St. Michael) Churchyard
Boulton (St. Mary) Churchyard


Ashbourne Rural District

Bradbourne (All Saints) Churchyard
Clifton (Holy Trinity) Churchyard Extension
Hulland (Christ Church) Churchyard
Kirk Ireton (Holy Trinity) Churchyard
Tissington (St. Mary) Churchyard


Ashbourne Urban District

Ashbourne Cemetery
Ashbourne (St. Oswald) Churchyard


Bakewell Rural District

Ashford (Holy Trinity) Churchyard
Beeley (St. Anne) Churchyard
Curbar (All Saints) Churchyard
Sterndale (St. Michael) Churchyard
Edensor (St. Peter) Churchyard
Elton (All Saints) Churchyard
Eyam (St. Lawrence) Churchyard
Hassop Roman Catholic Cemetery
Longstone (St. Giles) Churchyard
Stoney Middleton (St. Martin's) Cemetery
Tideswell (St.John the Baptist) Churchyard
Winster (St. John the Baptist) Churchyard
Youlgrave (All Saints) Churchyard


Bakewell Urban District

Bakewell Cemetery


Baslow and Bubnell Urban District

Baslow (St. Anne) Churchyard


Belper Rural District

Allestree (St. Edmund) Churchyard
Crich (St. Mary) Churchyard
Darley Abbey (St. Matthew) Churchyard
Denby (St. Mary) Churchyard
Duffield Cemetery
Hazlewood (St. John) Churchyard
Horsley (St. Clement) Churchyard
Horsley Woodhouse Burial Ground
Mackworth (All Saints) Churchyard
Mugginton (All Saints) Churchyard
South Wingfield Baptist Chapel Burial Ground
South Wingfield (Park) Burial Ground


Belper Urban District

Belper Cemetery


Blackwell Rural District

Blackwell (St. Werburgh) Churchyard
Pinxton (St. Helen) Churchyard
Pleasley (St. Michael) Churchyard
Shirebrook Cemetery
Shirebrook (St. Joseph) Roman Catholic Churchyard
South Normanton (St. Michael) Churchyard
Tibshelf (St. John the Baptist) Churchyard


Bolsover Urban District

Bolsover (St. Mary) New Churchyard
Bolsover (St. Mary) Old Churchyard


Bonsall Urban District

Bonsall (St. James the Great) Churchyard


Brampton and Walton Urban District

Brampton (SS. Peter and Paul) Churchyard
Holymoorside (St. Peter) Churchyard


Buxton Municipal Borough

Burbage (Christ Church) Churchyard
Buxton Cemetery
Fairfield (St. Peter) Churchyard


Chapel-en-le-Frith Rural District

Bamford (Our Lady of Sorrows) Roman Catholic Churchy'd
Bamford (St. John the Baptist) Churchyard
Castleton (St. Edmund) Churchyard
Chapel-en-le-Frith (St. Thomas Becket) Churchyard
Derwent Woodlands (SS. James and John) Churchyard
Dove Holes Primitive Methodist Churchyard
Dove Holes (St. Paul) Churchyard
Edale (Holy Trinity) Churchyard
Fernilee Wesleyan Chapelyard
Peak Dale (Holy Trinity) Churchyard
Peak Forest (St. Charles) Churchyard
Peak Forest Wesleyan Methodist Churchyard


Chesterfield Municipal Borough

Brampton (St. Thomas) Churchyard
Chesterfield (Boythorpe) Cemetery
Chesterfield (Christ Church) Churchyard
Chesterfield (Spital) Cemetery
Newbold (St. John) Churchyard
Whittington. (St. Bartholomew) Churchyard


Chesterfield Rural District

Ashover Cemetery
Barlow (St. Lawrence) Churchyard
Beighton (St. Mary) Churchyard
Brimington Cemetery
Duckmanton Church Cemetery
Eckington Burial Ground
Hasland Cemetery
Heath (All Saints) Churchyard
Morton (Holy Cross) Churchyard
North Wingfield. (St. Lawrence) Churchyard
Pilsley (St. Mary) Churchyard
Shirland (St. Leonard) Churchyard
Staveley Cemetery


Clay Cross Urban District

Clay Cross Cemetery


Clowne Rural District

Barlborough (St. James) Churchyard
Clowne (St. John the Baptist) Churchyard
Creswell (St. Mary Magdalene) Churchyard
Elmton (St. Peter) Churchyard
Steetley (All Saints) Churchyard
Whitwell (St. Lawrence) Churchyard


Derby County Borough

Derby (Normanton) Cemetery
Derby (Nottingham Road) Cemetery
Derby (Uttoxeter Road) Cemetery


Dronfield Urban District

Dronfield Cemetery
Dronfield (St. John the Baptist) Church and Churchyard


Glossop Municipal Borough

Glossop Cemetery
Glossop (St. James) Churchyard


Glossop Dale Rural District

Charlesworth Independent Chapel Burial Ground
Charlesworth (St. John the Baptist) Churchyard
Marple Bridge Congregational Churchyard
Marple Bridge (St. Mary) Roman Catholic Churchyard


Hartshorne and Seals Rural District

Hartshorne (St. Peter) Churchyard
Netherseal (St. Peter) Churchyard Extension
Smisby (St. James) Churchyard
Woodville Wesleyan Churchyard


Hayfield Rural District

Hayfield Church Cemetery
Mellor (St. Thomas) Churchyard


Heage Urban District

Heage (St. Luke) Churchyard


Heanor Urban District

Aldercar (St. John) Churchyard Extension
Codnor and Loscoe Cemetery
Heanor Cemetery


Ilkeston Municipal Borough

Ilkeston (Park) Cemetery
Ilkeston (Stanton Road) Cemetery


Long Eaton Urban District

Long Eaton Cemetery


The Matlocks Urban District

Cromford (St. Mark) Churchyard
Cromford (St. Mary) Churchyard
Matlock (St. Giles) Churchyard
Tansley (Holy Trinity) Churchyard


New Mills Urban District

New Mills (St. George) Churchyard
New Mills Wesleyan. Methodist Chapelyard


Norton Rural District

Dore (Christ Church) Churchyard


Repton Rural District

Caldwell (St. Giles) Churchyard
Church Broughton (St. Michael) Churchyard
Egginton (St. Wilfrid) Churchyard
Etwall Cemetery
Linton (Christ Church) Churchyard
Marston-on-Dove (St. Mary) Churchyard
Mickleover (All Saints) Churchyard
Newton Solney (St. Mary) Churchyard
Scropton (St. Paul) Churchyard


Ripley Urban District

Ripley Cemetery


Shardlow Rural District

Aston-upon-Trent Cemetery
Breaston (St. Michael) Churchyard
Dale Abbey (All Saints) Churchyard
Draycott Cemetery
Elvaston (St. Bartholomew) Churchyard
Little Easton (St. Paul) Churchyard
Melbourne Cemetery
Ockbrook (All Saints) Churchyard
Risley (All Saints) Churchyard
Sandiacre (St. Giles) Churchyard
Sawley (All Saints) Churchyard
Shardlow (St. James) Churchyard
Spondon Cemetery
Stanley (St. Andrew) Churchyard
Stanley Common (All Saints) Churchyard


South Darley Urban District

South Darley (St. Mary) Churchyard


Sudbury Rural District

Marston. Montgomery (St. Giles) Churchyard
Somershall Herbert (St. Peter) Churchyard


Swadlincote District Urban District

Church Gresley Cemetery
Newhall and Stanton Burial Ground


Wirksworth Urban District

Wirksworth Cemetery		 NUMBER
OF GRAVES


4
4
1
1
1
2




3
8




1
1
1
3
2




6
2




1
1
1
1
3
1
1
1
1
1
7
4
3




10




1




1
7
1
1
4
1
5
2
1
1
1
1




26




3
1
2
9
2
7
5




5
4




1




3
5




5
54
15




1
6
2
5
1
2
1
3
5
2
1
7




2
4
6
31
21
10




1
2
9
10
2
9
12
7
1
5
1
5
11




11




3
3
11
1
1
3




17
194
16




4
2




23
3




4
1
1
1




2
1
2
5




4
2




1




1
6
13




45
4




19




1
1
10
3




6
3




5




1
2
2
2
2
5
5
2
1




9




3
3
1
2
1
1
9
5
2
4
6
2
4
1
2




1




1
1




6
3




6

We will remember them

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