Scartho Road Cemetery in Grimsby, Lincolnshire

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Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire Unitary Authority, Lincolnshire DN32 0BB England

Coordinates: 53.54649, -0.08858
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Grimsby (Scartho Road) Cemetery contains 281 scattered burials of the First World War,many of them seamen who served with the Auxiliary Patrol which operated out of Grimsby.Included in the total are special memorials to three casualties buried in Grimsby Old Cemetery where their graves could no longer be maintained.During the Second World War,boats of the Grimsby fishing fleet were attacked at sea,and the town and port were bombed many times,incurring casualties among servicemen as well as civilians.The cemetery contains 258 Second World War burials,almost 200 of them forming a war graves plot. There are also 17 war burials of other nationalities many of them German prisoners of war from the camp at nearby Weelsby.
No. of Identified Casualties: 553