Kirkley Cemetery is a burial ground in the Kirkley area of LowestoftinSuffolk. Located on London Road South, the cemetery is maintained by Waveney District Council and is open for traditional and Green Burials.[1]
The cemetery contains 59 war burials from both World Wars which are registered with and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.[2] Amongst them are Lance Corporal John Murdoch Dirom who was killed during preparations for Operation Overlord in 1944 aged 22.[3] Here also are buried civilian casualties of air raids on Lowestoft during World War II.[4]
The cemetery's Lychgate,[5] South Western[6] and North Eastern Chapels[7] were all listed in 1998 as Grade II listed buildings.[8] These were designed by the Lowestoft-born architect J. L. Clemence (1822–1911) and were built in 1880.[7] The first burials took place soon after.
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