WORMS (HOCHHEIM HILL) CEMETERY
Rheinland Pfalz
Germany
Location Information
Worms is a town in south west Germany approx 40 kms north of Mannheim and approx 78 kms south of Frankfurt am Main.
From the A61 Köln to Mannheim motorway take exit 57 WORMS-NORD / MÖRSTADT and follow L425 direction WORMS-NORD for approx 2 kms then turn right onto K18 direction WORMS-HERRNSHEIM. Continue for approx 3.8 kms to a set of traffic lights at the junction of JOHANN-HINRICH-WICHERN-STRAßE and HÖHENSTRAßE. Continue along HÖHENSTRAßE for approx 100 m and the parking for the cemetery can be found on the left.
On entering the cemetery continue straight for approx 200 m, then up some steps and the Cross of Sacrifice can be found on the right.
The cemetery address is:
Höhenstraße
67549 Worms
Germany
GPS Co-ordinates: N 49 38 55, E 08 19 56
Visiting Information
There is a car park and a side entrance to the cemetery. At the entrance is a large plan of the entire cemetery. The cemetery has the following opening times :
1 April-31 August (summer) from 7.00 hrs till 21.00 hrs; 1 September-31 October (autumn) from 7.00 hrs till 20.00 hrs; 1 November-31 March (winter)from 8.00 hrs till 17.00 hrs
Historical Information
The majority of First World War Commonwealth war graves in Germany were moved into four permanent cemeteries after the war. However, a few graves could not be moved on religious grounds or for other reasons and they remain in their original locations in German military and civil cemeteries.
Worms (Hochheim Hill) Cemetery contains a substantial plot of Allied prisoner of war burials. Among these are the graves of 113 Commonwealth servicemen who died in 1918. The names of the dead are inscribed on a screen wall.
Their names are carved on a screen wall in the Allied Plot.
Cemetery pictures used with the permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Worms is a town in south west Germany approx 40 kms north of Mannheim and approx 78 kms south of Frankfurt am Main.
From the A61 Köln to Mannheim motorway take exit 57 WORMS-NORD / MÖRSTADT and follow L425 direction WORMS-NORD for approx 2 kms then turn right onto K18 direction WORMS-HERRNSHEIM. Continue for approx 3.8 kms to a set of traffic lights at the junction of JOHANN-HINRICH-WICHERN-STRAßE and HÖHENSTRAßE. Continue along HÖHENSTRAßE for approx 100 m and the parking for the cemetery can be found on the left.
On entering the cemetery continue straight for approx 200 m, then up some steps and the Cross of Sacrifice can be found on the right.
The cemetery address is:
Höhenstraße
67549 Worms
Germany
GPS Co-ordinates: N 49 38 55, E 08 19 56
Visiting Information
There is a car park and a side entrance to the cemetery. At the entrance is a large plan of the entire cemetery. The cemetery has the following opening times :
1 April-31 August (summer) from 7.00 hrs till 21.00 hrs; 1 September-31 October (autumn) from 7.00 hrs till 20.00 hrs; 1 November-31 March (winter)from 8.00 hrs till 17.00 hrs
Historical Information
The majority of First World War Commonwealth war graves in Germany were moved into four permanent cemeteries after the war. However, a few graves could not be moved on religious grounds or for other reasons and they remain in their original locations in German military and civil cemeteries.
Worms (Hochheim Hill) Cemetery contains a substantial plot of Allied prisoner of war burials. Among these are the graves of 113 Commonwealth servicemen who died in 1918. The names of the dead are inscribed on a screen wall.
Their names are carved on a screen wall in the Allied Plot.
Cemetery pictures used with the permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
35101 Private
Percy Caldecoat
1st/4th Bn. Yorkshire Regiment
13th October 1918.
Screen Wall.
Percy Caldecoat
1st/4th Bn. Yorkshire Regiment
13th October 1918.
Screen Wall.
L/178Gunner
Harry Cherry
Royal Field Artilley Burnley Howitzers 64 Bde. C Btty.
Died of dysentery 5th November 1918, aged 22
Listed as a prisoner of War.
Screen Wall
Son of William and Alice Cherry, of 63, Thursby Rd., Burnley, now of 53, Windsor Rd., Morecambe.
Harry Cherry
Royal Field Artilley Burnley Howitzers 64 Bde. C Btty.
Died of dysentery 5th November 1918, aged 22
Listed as a prisoner of War.
Screen Wall
Son of William and Alice Cherry, of 63, Thursby Rd., Burnley, now of 53, Windsor Rd., Morecambe.
