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Maple Way, COLCHESTER, CO2 7PD

This chapel is now a flower shop.

Now named the 'Starlight Tea Rooms' they also sell flowers.

Muhammad AYUB was a Driver number 781458 in the Royal Indian Army Service Corps with the 3rd Mule Company. He died in Colchester hospital 10/01/1942 age 18. He was the son of Dost Muhammad and Mohammadi, of Mirabala, Hazara, Pakistan.

A war memorial is just off to the left.

There are 114 Commonwealth burials of the 1939-1945 war here, 1 of which is unidentified. There are also 267 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war, one being unidentified, eleven Australian graves are together in a group nearby, the remainder being scattered. After the war a Cross of Sacrifice was erected on a site overlooking both the plot and the group of war graves, in honour of all the servicemen buried here. There are also 7 Foreign National burials.

There are 115 war graves in the cemetery as well as many civilian casualties from the bombing of Severalls hospital.

Carved stone post on Via, in parish of COLCHESTER (COLCHESTER District), was in Colchester High Street until 1858, now in Colchester cemetery. Erected by an unknown authority in the 19th century. The obelisk has several inscriptions including:- TO LONDON 51 Essex HER listed. SMR Number: 40291 https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MEX1034724&resourceID=1001 Milestone Society National ID: EX_CHCO51.

38 patients and nurses died in the bombing and are buried in this row of graves.

The Second World War plot at Colchester. The nearest two rows are post war graves while the three rows nearest the Cross of Sacrifice are WW2 casualties including those who died during Operation Dynamo.