Garrison Cemetery, Prospect, Devonshire - Garrison Cemetery in Devonshire was the cemetery for the British Army in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when Prospect Barracks housed the British garrison. In recent years it has become the police cemetery. This cemetery contains many fine examples of classic tombstone masonry, including the last resting place of Governor Sir Walter Kitchener. (Source)
Location: Greenwich Lane, off Alexandria Road, Fort Hill, from Middle Road, Devonshire. (Exact location for Google map insert to be confirmed.)
For more information - CWGC
Royal Canadians buried at the Prospect Hill Military Cemetery are listed below.
Regt. No. | Rank. | Given Names. | Surname. | Date of Death. | Remarks. | CVWM/CWGC Link; Grave Ref. |
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6838 | Pte | Allen Arthur | CUTHBERTSON | 16-Nov-14 | CVWM Grave Ref: 848 | |
7665 | Pte | Joseph R. | MARSHALL | 24-Apr-15 | CVWM Grave Ref: 520 |
Photos by Cathy Czaja.
The RCR in the Great War
War Diary
Battle Honours
Battle Bars and The RCR
The RCR Battle Bar Ledger (pdf)
Honours and Awards
Roll of Honour
Prisoners of War
Cemetery List
Cemetery Map
Courts Martial
Officers
RSMs of The RCR (1914-1919)
NCOs and Soldiers
An Officer's Diary (1914-1918)
Recollections of a Nonagenerian (R. England) (1916-1919)
On to Bermuda (1914-15)
England and France 1915-1916 (Hayes; 1931)
Overseas with The Royals (1915)
Regimental History Pamphlet (1917)
Amiens (1918)
Cambrai (1918)
Monchy-le-Preux (1918)
Under-aged Soldiers in The RCR
Not All Were Volunteers; The RCR and the Military Service Act
Sentenced to Death by Court Martial
The 7th Trench Mortar Battery
A Regimental Goat
Regiment and Family, Bermuda 1914-15
"March the Guilty Bastard In"
Surrendered as Stowaway
Re-Visiting the Great War Roll of Honour for The RCR
Canadian Corps Trench Standing Orders (1916)