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Lowestoft Cemetery (also known as Lowestoft Municipal Cemetery) is the main burial ground for the town of Lowestoft in Suffolk. It is best known for its large number of Royal Navy burials from World War I and World War II; these are maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The cemetery is managed by Waveney District Council.〔(Lowestoft Cemetery on the Waveney District Council website )〕 Located on Normanston Drive, Lowestoft Cemetery received its first burial in 1885. During World War I Lowestoft was a trawler base with a Port Minesweeping Officer in command; during World War II it was the central Depot for the Royal Naval Patrol Service, hence the large number of burials from the Royal Navy. The World War I burials are mainly located in Plots 12, 13 and 14 on the cemetery's west side. After the war a Cross of Sacrifice was built near to these plots to commemorate the servicemen buried there. Most of the World War II graves are in one or other of four War Graves Plots, three of which are in the western part of the cemetery and one to the east of the main entrance. The rest can be found throughout the cemetery. The cemetery holds 95 Commonwealth burials from World War I and 122 from World War II, including 11 unknown seamen from the Merchant Navy, most of whose bodies were washed up in the area. Lowestoft Cemetery also holds 11 German war burials including an unidentified airman whose body was washed up at Gunton in 1943 and two non-war service burials, giving it the largest group of WWII German graves in Suffolk. Many other German burials were exhumed from the cemetery in the 1960s and transferred to the German Military Cemetery at Cannock Chase in Staffordshire.〔('The Riddle of Lowestoft's "Unknown" German Airman' - Lowestoft Aviation Society website )〕 ==Gallery== File:Lowestoft Cemetery Chapel.JPG|The Chapel at Lowestoft Cemetery File:Lowestoft Cemetery Enclosure.JPG|A Commonwealth War Graves Commission enclosure File:Lowestoft German Graves.JPG|German burials in the cemetery File:Cross of Sacrifice Lowestoft.JPG|The Cross of Sacrifice File:CWGC Graves Lowestoft 1.JPG|Royal Navy graves in Lowestoft Cemetery 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lowestoft Cemetery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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