Walton-on-Thames Cemetery

Walton-on-Thames Cemetery
Selection of planting, graves and the New Zealand War Memorial
Details
Location
Walton-on-Thames, Borough of Elmbridge, Surrey
CountryEngland
Coordinates51°23′16″N 0°25′02″W / 51.3877°N 0.4172°W / 51.3877; -0.4172
TypeActive
StyleLaid to lawn, with low front wall, flowers and shrubberies
Owned byElmbridge Borough Council
Size5,700 square metres (1.4 acres)
No. of interments229
Websitehttps://www.elmbridge.gov.uk/cemeteries-services/information/
Find a GraveWalton-on-Thames Cemetery

Walton-on-Thames Cemetery is the municipal part of Walton-on-Thames's main cemeteries next to the (Anglican) parish church and facing the Methodist Church.[1][2]

Among the 229 graves are 33 for casualties from World War I and World War II. Near the entrance is a memorial wall listing 19 men who served with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the former.[3][4] Some or all of these were patients at the No. 2 New Zealand General Hospital nearby.[2]

Notable burials

  • George Virtue (1794–1868); 19th-century London publisher, notably of engravings; has a surmounting sculpture by Joseph Edwards.[5]
  • Fred Atkins (1859–1881); police constable whose murder on Kingston Hill remains unsolved.[6]
  • ANZAC memorial
    ANZAC memorial
  • George Virtue grave
    George Virtue grave

References

  1. ^ "Cemeteries information". Elmbridge Borough Council.
  2. ^ a b "WALTON-ON-THAMES CEMETERY". The Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
  3. ^ "Walton and Weybridge (Walton-On-Thames) Cemetery". New Zealand History.
  4. ^ "Walton on Thames Cemetery". Surrey in the Great War: A County Remembers.
  5. ^ "Monument to George Virtue (1794-1868)". The Victorian Web.
  6. ^ "Fred Atkins grave monument in Municipal Cemetery, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England". Gravestone Photographic Resource.
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