Kirkley Cemetery is a burial ground in the Kirkley area of Lowestoft in Suffolk. Located on London Road South, the cemetery is maintained by Waveney District Council and is open for traditional and Green Burials.
The cemetery contains 60 service personnel war burials from both World Wars which are registered with and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.Kirkley Cemetery on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website Amongst them are Lance Corporal John Murdoch Dirom who was killed during preparations for Operation Overlord in 1944 aged 22.John Murdoch Dirom on the ParaData – Airborne Assault website Here also are buried civilian casualties of air raids on Lowestoft during World War II.Old Lowestoft website – The Letters (1942)
The cemetery's Lychgate,Kirkley Cemetery Lych Gate on the Historic England website South Western Kirkley Cemetery South Western Chapel on the Historic England website and North Eastern Chapels Kirkley Cemetery North Eastern Chapel on the Historic England website were all listed in 1998 as Grade II listed buildings.Kirkley Cemetery on the British Listed Buildings website These were designed by the Lowestoft-born architect J. L. Clemence (1822–1911) and were built in 1880. The first burials took place soon after.
See also
Lowestoft Cemetery
References
External links
Kirkley Cemetery Records on the Waveney District Council website