War graves

First World War graves

There are 179 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war in Fulham Cemetery, not arranged as usual in neat serried ranks within an enclosure, but scattered higgledy-piggledy throughout the cemetery. 

This large number is due to the fact that the former Fulham Hospital just up the road, now the site of the Charing Cross Hospital, was used as a military hospital during WWI. The soldiers were buried before the War Graves Commission was set up. It was obviously decided to mark their graves in situ, and not to dig them up and move them to a formal setting.

Many regiments are represented, e.g. Royal Hussars, Dragoon Guards, London Battalions, Royal Fusiliers, Royal Engineers, Army Auxiliary Corps, Labour Corps, East Kent, Wiltshire, Yorkshire, and also from HMS Glatton, HMS Pembroke and the Air Force. There is also one grave of the South African Infantry.

Second World War graves

There are 57 Commonwealth burials of the 1939-1945 war in Fulham Cemetery, all commemorated in the war plot at the center of the cemetery.

The Cross of Sacrifice war memorial is dedicated to the fallen of both world wars.

WWI war graves around the cemetery. Photo by Ian Wood

War plot

This enclosure at the center of the cemetery, near the Cross of Sacrifice war memorial, commemorates 57 Commonwealth burials of the 1939-1945 war. Those whose graves are not marked by headstones are named on a Screen Wall memorial.

There is also a single Special Memorial headstone here, commemorating 7 burials of the 1914-1918 war.