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Heritage Open Days: Commonwealth War Graves Commission tour of Newark Cemetery
September 15, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Discover more about the CWGC and those they commemorate. You will learn about the history of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and about the heroic actions and self-sacrifice of some of our casualties buried in the cemetery.
Newark Cemetery was constructed in 1856 both as a final resting place for the dead and as a park for the people of the town. The granite war memorial at the entrance to the park commemorates hundreds of Newark’s residents who died in the First World War and later conflicts. The CWGC cares for the graves of 49 servicemen of the First World War scattered throughout the cemetery. When the Second World War broke out, the cemetery set aside space for RAF burials, and this became the large war graves plot we maintain here today. It holds all but ten of some 90 Commonwealth and almost 400 Polish graves dating from the Second World War.