tidworth military cemetery

TIDWORTH MILITARY CEMETERY
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TIDWORTH MILITARY CEMETERY
HISTORY INFORMATION
Tidworth Military Cemetery, which contains burials of both wars, was directly connected with training grounds on, or near, Salisbury Plain. During the First World War, the cemetery was used for burials from Tidworth and Fargo Military Hospitals and the 417 graves, many of them of Australian or New Zealand servicemen, are scattered throughout the cemetery. There are 106 Second World War graves in the cemetery, two substantial groups of which can be found in sections F and D. The rest are scattered. The cemetery also contains 40 war graves of other nationalities, many of them Polish.
Recent contents

  1. PARAS 2 Sumners, Ronald William

    SURNAME Sumners FORENAME Ronald William UNIT 3 Para (B Company) RANK Private NUMBER 23253109 DATE OF DEATH 5th November 1956 AGE 19 GRAVESITE Tidworth Military Cemetery,Tidworth,Wiltshire Section D Grave 201 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION born 17.6.1937 3 Para 11.3.1956 DOW Port...

  2. PARAS 2 Higgs, Peter David

    SURNAME Higgs FORENAME Peter David UNIT 3 Para RANK Lance Corporal NUMBER 24405614 DATE OF DEATH 12th June 1982 AGE 23 GRAVESITE Tidworth Military Cemetery,Tidworth,Wiltshire Section H Grave 93 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION born 7.10.1958 KIA Mount Longdon,Falklands

  3. 22 SAS Loid, Christopher

    SURNAME Loid FORENAME Christopher UNIT G Squadron (24 Troop) RANK Trooper NUMBER 23955813 DATE OF DEATH 17th November 1971 AGE 24 GRAVESITE Tidworth Military Cemetery, Tidworth, Wiltshire Plot B Grave 32 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION parent unit Life Guards born 29.6.1947 shot...
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