Hastings Cemetery

Hastings Cemetery

Hastings Cemetery is a cemetery in Hastings, East Sussex, England.

The cemetery was opened on 28 November 1856. The Church of England section was consecrated by Ashurst Gilbert, Bishop of Chichester, followed by a service in All Saints Church.^[1]

Hastings Crematorium is located within the cemetery. It was built in 1955, incorporating two Gothic-style burial chapels built in 1856 of local sandstone.^[2]

Notable burials[]

• Major-General Sir Edward Anson (1826–1925), army officer
• Frederick Chamier (1796–1870), Royal Navy officer and writer
• Major-General John Granville Harkness (1831–1900), army officer^[3]
• Arthur Foord Hughes (1856–1914), artist^[4]
• George Monger (1840–1887)
• W. S. Penley (1851–1912), singer, actor and comedian
• Sergiusz Piasecki (1901–1964), Polish novelist
• Arthur Banks Skinner (1861–1911), director of the Victoria and Albert Museum^[5]
• Anna McNeill Whistler (1804–1881), the subject of the painting Whistler's Mother
• William McNeill Whistler (1836–1900)

War graves[]

Hastings Cemetery contains the war graves of 176 Commonwealth service personnel (including two unidentified Royal Navy sailors) of World War I and 69 of World War II. Those whose graves could not be individually marked are listed on a Screen Wall Memorial. There are also buried here a Belgian army soldier of World War I and a German soldier and six German airmen of World War II.^[6]

References[]

External links[]

• Friends of Hastings Cemetery
• Hastings Cemetery at Find a Grave

Coordinates: 50°52′45″N 0°35′33″E / 50.8792°N 0.5926°E / 50.8792; 0.5926