Wimborne Road Cemetery, Bournemouth
{{Short description|Historic cemetery in Dorset, England}}
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|location = Wimborne Road, Bournemouth
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The Wimborne Road Cemetery is located at Wimborne Road, Bournemouth.{{cite web |url=http://www.bournemouth.gov.uk/BirthsDeathsMarriages/CemeteriesCrematoriums/BournemouthCemeteriesAndBurials.aspx |title=Bournemouth Cemeteries and Burials |website=www.bournemouth.gov.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150316113658/http://bournemouth.gov.uk/BirthsDeathsMarriages/CemeteriesCrematoriums/BournemouthCemeteriesAndBurials.aspx |archive-date=2015-03-16}} It is grade II listed with Historic England. The cemetery was opened in 1878 and laid out by the architect Christopher Crabb Creeke.{{NHLE|num=1000726|desc=Wimborne Road Cemetery, Bournemouth |accessdate=28 December 2015}} St Augustin's Church stands across the road from the cemetery.
Cemetery Junction is a major intersection of the A347 road.
The cemetery contains the war graves of 48 Commonwealth service personnel of World War I and 38 of World War II.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/find-cemeteries-memorials/cemetery-details/39202/bournemouth-wimborne-road-cemetery/|title=Cemetery Details|website=CWGC}}
Notable interments
- Frederick Abberline (1843–1929), British police Chief Inspector and detective
- Sir Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841–1917), statesman
- Guy Boothby (1867–1905), author
- William Campbell (missionary)[https://tcnn.org.tw/archives/216143 邱大昕 (2019年10月14日)〈我自己要見祂--甘為霖牧師生平考略〉,《臺灣教會公報》3529期21版]
- Christopher Crabb Creeke (1820–1886), architect
- John Nelson Darby (1800–1882), founder of the Plymouth Brethren
- Antonia Forest (1915–2003), author
- Staff Surgeon RN William Job Maillard (1863–1903), Victoria Cross recipient in 1898 Occupation of Crete{{web archive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041027213327/http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/stewart/dorset.htm|title=Location of grave and VC medal}} (Dorset)
- Francis Mawson Rattenbury (1867–1935), architect
References
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External links
- {{Find a Grave cemetery}}
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