Plumstead Cemetery

{{Short description|Cemetery in Greenwich, London}}

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Plumstead Cemetery is a cemetery in Plumstead, southeast London. It is situated south-east of Woolwich, to the north of Wickham Lane, west of Lodge Hill,{{cite web|title=Directory: Cemeteries and crematorium: Plumstead Cemetery|url=https://www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/directory_record/2676/plumstead_cemetery|website=Royal Borough of Greenwich|access-date=15 June 2017}} and south of Bostall Wood.

The cemetery was opened in 1890 by Woolwich Burial Board in former parkland,{{cite web|title=Plumstead Cemetery, London, England|url=http://www.parksandgardens.org/places-and-people/site/7260?preview=1|website=Parks and Gardens|access-date=15 June 2017}} to the west of Woolwich cemetery. It has a plot of graves holding civilian war dead from Woolwich, 187 Commonwealth war graves (106 from the First World War and 81 from the Second World War),{{cite web|title=Commonwealth War Graves Plumstead Cemetery|url=https://www.tracesofwar.com/sights/78415/Commonwealth-War-Graves-Plumstead-Cemetery.htm|website=Traces of War|access-date=15 June 2017}} the graves of two former mayors of Woolwich (Col Sir Edwin Hughes, Woolwich's first MP and first mayor of Woolwich in 1900/01, and Albert Gorman, mayor in 1940/41), and, to the north of the cemetery's chapel, a memorial to victims of two accidental explosions in 1903 at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich.{{cite web|title=VCs, Royal Arsenal workers and mayors among 56,000 burial records|url=http://www.deceasedonline.com/emails/email_20120926_1.html|website=Deceased Online|access-date=15 June 2017}}{{cite web|title=Plumstead cemetery|url=http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.php?ID=GRN040|website=London Gardens Online|access-date=15 June 2017}}