Manor Park Cemetery
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Manor Park Cemetery
Image: © Marathon Taken: 16 Mar 2016
Manor Park Cemetery was developed from 1874 by the Manor Park Cemetery Company on the eastern part of Hamfrith Farm, purchased from a land company who acquired it two years earlier from John Gurney. A chapel was built in 1877, but was largely demolished by a bomb in 1944. Among those buried here is John Cornwell, the second youngest holder of the Victoria Cross, which he was awarded posthumously for gallantry at the Battle of Jutland in 1916. A second holder of the Victoria Cross from the First World War is also here. Sidney Godley was one of the first soldiers to be awarded it after war broke out in 1914. He died in 1957. On a rather different note, Annie Chapman the second victim of Jack the Ripper was buried here in September 1888. This view is from Centre Drive, not far from the eastern entrance in Whitta Road.
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