Margate Cemetery

St John’s Cemetery, Margate is a cemetery located in Margate, Kent in England. The cemetery dates back to 1856

History

The Surf Boat Memorial is a Grade II* [listed buildings in Thanet|Grade II listed building in Margate Cemetery].

Notable burials

John Allen , flying ace of the Second World War, among the war graves in the cemetery
Pamela Barton, English amateur golfer, killed serving in Second World War, war grave.
Samuel Courtauld, art collector
Thomas Selby Egan, coxswain and rowing coach
Leslie Fuller, comic actor
Richard Henry Horne, poet
Sir William Quiller Orchardson, Scottish portraitist - memorial
Lord George Sanger, English circus proprietor
John Sanger, English circus proprietor
Victoria Sanger Freeman, "the Queen of the Elephants"
War graves

The cemetery contains the war graves of 53 Commonwealth service personnel of World War I which are scattered throughout the cemetery, and of 83 from World War Two, in addition to 18 German airmen who are buried with 50 of the British casualties in a war graves plot in Section 50. A number of dead from the latter war were from the Dunkirk evacuations.

Margate Cemetery

History

Notable burials

War graves