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For the Jewish cemetery, see Fulham Road Jewish Cemetery.
For Fulham New Cemetery, see North Sheen Cemetery.
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Fulham Cemetery
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Fulham Cemetery chapel doorway
Details
Established 1 August 1865 (date of consecration)
Location
Fulham Palace Road, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
Country England
Owned by Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council
Size 13 acres

Fulham Cemetery, also known as Fulham Old Cemetery and as Fulham Palace Road Cemetery, is in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, just off Fulham Palace Road. Designed by John Hall, it opened in 1865. The closest London Underground station is Barons Court.

Notable burials

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The cemetery
Fulham Cemetery (geograph 2304435)
Another view of the cemetery
  • Lieutenant-General Sir Burke Douglas Cuppage KCB (1794–1877), Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey 1863–68.

The cemetery contains the war graves of 238 Commonwealth service personnel, 179 from World War I of whom seven are commemorated by a special memorial headstone, and 57 from World War II. Those whose graves have no headstones are listed by name on a screen wall memorial in the main war graves plot.

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