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The cemetery contains 59 war burials from both World Wars which are registered with and maintained by the
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in 1944 aged 22. Here also are buried civilian casualties of air raids on Lowestoft during
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Kirkley Cemetery Records on the Waveney District Council website
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John Murdoch Dirom on the ParaData – Airborne Assault website
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Kirkley Cemetery on the British Listed Buildings website
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Lychgate
Kirkley
Lowestoft
Suffolk
Waveney District Council
Green Burials
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Operation Overlord
World War II
Lychgate
listed buildings
J. L. Clemence

Lowestoft Cemetery
"Kirkley Cemetery on the Waveney District Council website"
the original
Kirkley Cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
John Murdoch Dirom on the ParaData – Airborne Assault website
Old Lowestoft website – The Letters (1942)
Kirkley Cemetery Lych Gate
Historic England
Kirkley Cemetery South Western Chapel
Historic England


Kirkley Cemetery North Eastern Chapel
Historic England
Kirkley Cemetery on the British Listed Buildings website

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