Cemetery in London, England
Putney Vale Crematorium
Putney Vale Cemetery and Crematorium in southwest
London is located in
Putney Vale , surrounded by
Putney Heath and Wimbledon Common and
Richmond Park . It is located within 47 acres (19 ha) of parkland. The cemetery was opened in 1891 and the crematorium in 1938. The cemetery was originally laid out on land which had belonged to Newlands Farm, which was established in the medieval period.
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The cemetery has two chapels, one being a traditional
Church of England chapel and the other being used for multi-denomination or non-religious services. It has a large Garden of Remembrance.
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There are 87 Commonwealth war grave burials from the
First World War and 97 from the
Second World War in the cemetery. Six
Victoria Cross recipients have been buried or cremated here.
[3] The burials are scattered throughout the grounds of the cemetery and a Screen Wall Memorial has been erected to record the names of those whose graves are not marked by headstones. Those who have been cremated at Putney Vale Crematorium also have their names recorded on these panels.
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Notable burials and cremations
The memorial to
strongman
Eugen Sandow
Funerals held at Putney Vale include those of:
Ellinor Lily Davenport Adams , journalist and children's author
Major General
Ernest Alexander , World War I
Victoria Cross recipient
Julie Alexander , actress and model (cremated)
Dev Anand , Indian film actor (cremated, ashes scattered in
Godavari River , India)
Peter Arne , actor
Arthur Askey , comedian and actor (cremated)
Sir Stanley Baker , Welsh actor and film producer (cremated, ashes scattered near
Ferndale, Glamorgan )
Sir Henry George Outram Bax-Ironside , British diplomat, ambassador to Venezuela, Chile, Switzerland and Bulgaria
Robert Beatty , actor (cremated)
Lady Evelyn Beauchamp (née Herbert), one of the first people to enter the
tomb of the
Tutankhamun
James Beck , actor noted for his role as
Private Joe Walker , the Cockney
spiv in the BBC sitcom
Dad's Army (cremated)
Admiral
The 1st Baron Beresford , following state funeral at
St Paul's Cathedral .
John Bindon , actor
Major-General
Charles Guinand Blackader , WWI general
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Lillian Board MBE , silver medal-winning Olympian (cremated)
William Boulter , World War I Victoria Cross recipient (cremated)
Kate Carney , famed
music hall singer and comedian
Howard Carter , archaeologist and Egyptologist, noted as a primary discoverer of the tomb of
Tutankhamun .
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Harry Cunningham Brodie , MP for
Reigate (1906–1910) and major in
Middlesex Yeomanry
Lt-Col. Sir Henry Dickonson Nightingale, 13th Baronet ,
Royal Marine Officer during
Second Anglo-Burmese War in 1851–52
Admiral Herbert Charles Campbell da Costa, Royal Navy flag officer in
First World War
Alain de Cadenet , racing driver
Sandy Denny , singer, songwriter and member of
Fairport Convention
Henry Fielding Dickens , barrister and the eighth of 10 children born to author
Charles Dickens and his wife
Catherine .
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Clive Dunfee , racing driver.
Sir Jacob Epstein , sculptor.
Sid Field English comedy entertainer
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Golchin Gilani , 20th century Iranian poet.
Alexander Gordon, co-owner of the Niles Tool Works. A photograph of his mausoleum was used by
Judas Priest on the
Sin After Sin album cover.
Lieutenant Colonel
Harry Greenwood , World War I Victoria Cross recipient
Kenelm Lee Guinness , local resident and member of
Guinness brewing family , early motor racer and entrepreneur behind the famous Putney Vale-made KLG spark plugs
George Dickinson Hadley , gastroenterologist (cremated)
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Lieutenant Colonel
Reginald Hayward , World War I Victoria Cross recipient (cremated)
Eugen Hersch, artist and portrait painter whose subjects included President
Paul von Hindenburg and
Joseph Joachim .
Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet , newspaper proprietor
James Hunt , Formula One
Grand Prix world champion (cremated)
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John Ingram, 32, a grave digger at Putney Vale who died in a freak accident, hit in the chest from a stray bullet from the rifle range at
Wimbledon Common . Buried yards from where he fell, leaving a pregnant wife and infant daughter. Each year on 22 May, local resident John Cooper lays flowers on the man's grave.[
citation needed ]
Samuel Insull , Anglo-American utilities magnate
J. Bruce Ismay , chairman of
White Star Line and a passenger of its ship
RMS Titanic , and wife Julia Florence Ismay
Hattie Jacques , comedy actress who appeared in many
Carry On films (cremated).
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Alexander Kerensky , exiled former Russian prime minister and leading figure in the Russian revolution of 1917, until
Vladimir Lenin took over.
Sir John Lambert CMG KCVO, soldier and diplomat
Hazel, Lady Lavery , painter
Sir John Lavery , painter
Sir
David Lean CBE, critically acclaimed film director
Rosa Lewis , hotelier of the Cavendish, Jermyn Street, known as the "Queen of Cooks" and "Duchess of Duke Street"
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Sir John William Lorden, resident of Ravenswood, Putney Hill and former president of the National Federation of Property Owners and Ratepayers
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Daniel Massey , Canadian-British actor and
Golden Globe award recipient
Hilary Minster , British actor
Kenneth More , character actor
post-Second World War (cremated)
The 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn ,
OM , politician, ashes buried here after cremation at
Golders Green
Kenneth Nelson , actor (The Boys in the Band )
Joe O'Gorman , music hall performer and founder of the
Variety Artistes' Federation
Sir William Orpen ,KBE, RA, RHA, Irish artist and portrait painter, prolific official
war artist during
World War I .
Jennifer Paterson , TV chef of
Two Fat Ladies fame (cremated)
Lance Percival , actor and singer (cremated)
Jon Pertwee , actor, noted for
Worzel Gummidge , and
Doctor Who (cremated).
Roy Plomley OBE, creator of the world's longest running radio programme,
BBC Radio 4 's
Desert Island Discs
Nyree Dawn Porter OBE , actress (cremated)
Sir Edward J. Reed , 19th-century constructor of the
Royal Navy , MP, author and railway magnate
George Reid , former prime minister of
Australia
Alfred Joseph Richards ,
First World War recipient of the
Victoria Cross
Sir Ronald Ross , discoverer of
malaria transmission by mosquitoes
William Scoresby Routledge , British ethnographer, anthropologist and adventurer
Charles Rumney Samson , pioneer naval aviator.
Eugen Sandow , the
Prussian known as the
father of modern bodybuilding
Lieutenant Colonel
Harry Norton Schofield ,
Boer War Victoria Cross recipient
Richard Seaman , noted
pre-Second World War
Grand Prix driver for
Mercedes-Benz , who still maintain his grave
Vladek Sheybal , a
Polish
character actor
Joan Sims , comedy actress including the
Carry On films (cremated)
Edwin Tate, son of
Henry Tate of
Tate & Lyle sugar refining fame, in a family mausoleum inscribed with the family motto "Thincke and Thancke"
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C. W. Stephens (c.1846–1917), British architect, best known for
Harrods
Vesta Tilley , born Matilda Alice Powles, a
male impersonator , who was a star in both Britain and the US for over 30 years.
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