Stranton Grange Cemetery

Stranton Grange Cemetery is located in Tanfield Road, Stranton, Hartlepool.[1] It is also the site of Hartlepool Crematorium. It opened in May 1912.[2] It now covers over 30 acres in extent.[3]

The cemetery

War graves

The cemetery contains the war graves of 43 Commonwealth service personnel of the First World War and 132 of the Second World War. Those of the former war are scattered throughout the cemetery where, after that war, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission erected a Cross of Sacrifice in the main entrance of the cemetery. Early in the second war the local authorities set aside ground behind the Cross for war service burials, on which has grown the present War Graves Plot.[3]

Notable interments

References
  1. "Stranton Grange Cemetery, Durham, England". www.interment.net. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  2. "Hartlepool History Then & Now – Stranton Grange Cemetery". www.hhtandn.org. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  3. "Hartlepool (Stranton) Cemetery, with list of casualties". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
  4. "Casualty record, Theophilus Jones". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
  5. Stranton Grange Cemetery burials 1912–1919. Durham Records Online, 3 January 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  6. "Theophilus Jones". www.geocities.ws. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  7. "Thringstone School". www.oocities.org. Retrieved 30 September 2017.

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