Friends of Gainsbrough Cemeteries and Chapel

General and North Warren Cemeteries

  • Burial Records
  • Tracing relatives of WWI Servicemen
  • Restoring WWI Headstones Project
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Restored Headstones in the General Cemetery

The links below are for some of the family headstones we’ve already restored.

If any of these are your relatives, we’re keen to hear from you. We’re always looking for find out more about the servicemen and we’d be happy to show you the restored headstone.

  • Alborn, Engine Room Artificer Walter Cecil Alborn
  • Baines, Private Walter
  • Barnard, Private Signaller Hugh Roland
  • Belton, Private Robert William
  • Bower, Private Wilfred Basil
  • Brighton, Drummer W H (restored thanks to funding from the West Lindsey District Council’s Community Chest Fund)
  • Banwell, Nurse Grace (nee Broadbery)
  • Crompton, Private Albert 11th Notts and Derbys.
  • Draper, Stoker Wallace
  • Hill, Lance Cpl. William O.
  • Ingle, Lance Cpl. George R.
  • Irving, Lance. Cpl Joseph
  • Irving, Private Frederick
  • Leeman, Private Arthur
  • Marshall, Lance Cpl. David M.
  • Marshall, Lt. George L.
  • Mills, Lance Cpl. Charles Henry
  • Oyitch, Private W (restored thanks to funding from the West Lindsey District Council’s Community Chest Fund)
  • Parkin, Private William Frank
  • Patchett, Private Charles David
  • Platts, Capt. Arthur Leslie
  • Richards, Private Frank
  • Searle, Private James Percy
  • Senescall, George Alfred and Enoch William
  • Western, Private James Edward
  • Wright, Private John (Jack) Samuel

How to get in touch

If you would like to get in touch with the Friends group, please email:

susan@friendsofthegeneralcemetery.com

Peter Bradshaw

We’re deeply saddened to say that our WWI historian, Peter Bradshaw, died in March 2020.

Peter co-founded the Friends and his dedication and determination to see WWI servicemen honoured with a restored or new headstone is an inspiration to us all.

Shortly before Peter passed away, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission installed the latest headstone in the General Cemetery for Uriah Collett.

 

About the Friends

The Friends of Gainsborough Cemeteries and Chapel was set-up to help restore the family headstones of servicemen and women who died during WWI and WWII.

Both cemeteries have graves recognised by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

We also work to preserve both the General Cemetery, its Chapel, and the North Warren (Non-Conformist) Cemetery. With the kind permission of Gainsborough Town Council.

The General Cemetery is situated on Cox’s Hill in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. And the North Warren Cemetery is on Ropery Road in Gainsborough.

 

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Email: susan@friendsofthegeneralcemetery.com

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