GRANGEGORMAN MILITARY CEMETERY
County Dublin
Republic of Ireland
Historical Information
The cemetery was opened in 1876 and was used for the burial of British service personnel and their near relatives. There are burials of 145 military personnel who had been on board RMS Leinster, which on 10 October 1918 was torpedoed by a U-boat when scarcely an hour out from Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire), and of 770 passengers and crew, over 530 lost their lives. Some of the graves were re-located to this site at a later date (nine from King George V Hospital grounds, two from Trinity College grounds, three from Portobello (Barracks) Cemetery, two from Drogheda (Little Calvary) Cemetery and one from Oranmore Old Graveyard).
The "Leinster" graves are in several trenches in the different denominational plots.
A Screen Wall Memorial of a simple design standing nearly two metres high and fifteen metres long has been built of Irish limestone to commemorate the names of those war casualties whose graves lie elsewhere in Ireland and can no longer be maintained. Arranged before this memorial are the headstones of the war dead buried in Cork Military Cemetery but now commemorated here.
There are now 614 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war, 2 of which are unidentified, and 12 of the 1939-1945 war, 1 of which is unidentified, commemorated here.
Total Burials: 627.
World War One Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 595, Australia 7, Canada 7, New Zealand 3. Total 612.
World War One Unidentified Casualties: 2.
World War Two Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 12.
World War Two Unidentified Casualty: 1.
Pictures used with the permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The cemetery was opened in 1876 and was used for the burial of British service personnel and their near relatives. There are burials of 145 military personnel who had been on board RMS Leinster, which on 10 October 1918 was torpedoed by a U-boat when scarcely an hour out from Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire), and of 770 passengers and crew, over 530 lost their lives. Some of the graves were re-located to this site at a later date (nine from King George V Hospital grounds, two from Trinity College grounds, three from Portobello (Barracks) Cemetery, two from Drogheda (Little Calvary) Cemetery and one from Oranmore Old Graveyard).
The "Leinster" graves are in several trenches in the different denominational plots.
A Screen Wall Memorial of a simple design standing nearly two metres high and fifteen metres long has been built of Irish limestone to commemorate the names of those war casualties whose graves lie elsewhere in Ireland and can no longer be maintained. Arranged before this memorial are the headstones of the war dead buried in Cork Military Cemetery but now commemorated here.
There are now 614 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war, 2 of which are unidentified, and 12 of the 1939-1945 war, 1 of which is unidentified, commemorated here.
Total Burials: 627.
World War One Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 595, Australia 7, Canada 7, New Zealand 3. Total 612.
World War One Unidentified Casualties: 2.
World War Two Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 12.
World War Two Unidentified Casualty: 1.
Pictures used with the permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
