Charlton Cemetery

Charlton Cemetery is a cemetery, opened in 1855, covering of ground in Charlton, south-east London. Situated in Cemetery Lane to the east of Charlton Park, the cemetery has retained its Victorian layout, and features two 19th-century chapels and numerous military graves.
It was originally created as a "Gentleman's Cemetery" by Charlton Burial Board on of land that were formerly part of the estate of Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson. A further was added in the 20th century. The two chapels are both 19th-century: the Church of England chapel is Early English style and has a stained glass west window presented in 1865 by the local vicar; the Roman Catholic Chapel is in Decorated style.

Graves

Peter Barlow – mathematician
William Henry Barlow – civil engineer
Sir Geoffrey Callender – the first director of the National Maritime Museum
George Cooper – London politician, Member of Parliament for Bermondsey
William Clark Cowie – Scottish engineer, mariner, and businessman, and administrator of Borneo
Sir William Cunningham Dalyell of the Binns, 7th Baronet – who fought in the Napoleonic Wars
Lt-Gen Sir William Dobbie – veteran of the Second Boer War, and First and Second World Wars, and Governor of Malta
Robert Jacomb-Hood – railway engineer
Frederick Hobson Leslie – actor and comedian, best known for using the pseudonym "A. C. Torr"
Vivian Dering Majendie – explosives expert and Royal Artillery colonel
Jeffery Allen Marston CB, Hon FRCS – Principal Medical Officer to the Indian Army, honorary surgeon to Queen Victoria and King Edward VII
Thomas Murphy – former owner of Charlton greyhound track
General Sir Charles Edward Nairne – Commander-in-Chief, India.
Admiral Sir Watkin Owen Pell – served on a number of ships 1799 to 1841, superintendent of several dockyards 1841 to 1845, and commissioner of Greenwich Hospital
Admiral George Perceval, 6th Earl of Egmont – a midshipman at the Battle of Trafalgar at age 11
Helen Margaret Spanton – artist and suffragette
William Silas Spanton – artist and photographer
Sir John Maryon Wilson – brother of Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson; involved in the preservation of Hampstead Heath
Rachel O. Wingate – linguist and missionary. The cemetery also contains a memorial to her brother Major General Orde Wingate – head of the 'Chindits' in Burma – who is buried at Arlington National Cemetery, United States

The cemetery also contains the marked graves of 56 Commonwealth service personnel from the First World War, and a further 55 from the Second World War. A War Cross faces the entrance to the cemetery.