Wimborne Road Cemetery, Bournemouth

Wimborne Road Cemetery, Bournemouth
Wimborne Road Cemetery
Details
Established	1878
Location	Wimborne Road, Bournemouth
Country	UK
Coordinates	50°44′03″N1°52′23″W / 50.73417°N 1.87306°W / 50.73417; -1.87306
Type	Cemetery
Find a Grave	Wimborne Road Cemetery, Bournemouth

The Wimborne Road Cemetery is located at Wimborne Road, Bournemouth. ^[1] It is grade II listed with Historic England. The cemetery was opened in 1878 and laid out by the architect Christopher Crabb Creeke. ^[2] St Augustin's Church stands across the road from the cemetery.

Cemetery Junction is a major intersection of the A347 road.

The cemetery contains the war graves of 48 Commonwealth service personnel of World War I and 38 of World War II. ^[3]

Notable interments

• Frederick Abberline (1843–1929), British police Chief Inspector and detective ^[4]
• Sir Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841–1917), statesman ^[5]
• Guy Boothby (1867–1905), author ^[6]
• William Campbell, (1841-1921), missionary ^[7]
• Christopher Crabb Creeke (1820–1886), architect ^[8]
• John Nelson Darby (1800–1882), founder of the Plymouth Brethren
• Antonia Forest (1915–2003), author
• Staff Surgeon RN William Job Maillard (1863–1903), Victoria Cross recipient in 1898 Occupation of Crete ^[9]
• Francis Mawson Rattenbury (1867–1935), architect. ^[10] His widow, Alma (1897/1898-1935), songwriter, implicated in his murder, is buried in a separate and unmarked grave. ^[11]

References

1. "Bournemouth Cemeteries and Burials". www.bournemouth.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 16 March 2015.
2. Historic England. "Wimborne Road Cemetery, Bournemouth (1000726)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 28 December 2015.
3. "Cemetery Details". CWGC.Retrieved 13 June 2018.
4. "Headstone for Ripper-hunt officer". BBC News . BBC. 4 July 2007. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
5. "Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer". London Remembers. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
6. Mark Valentine, "Introduction" in Guy Boothby, Dr Nikola, Master Criminal. Herts UK: Wordsworth Editions, 2009, p. xii
7. 邱大昕 (2019年10月14日)〈我自己要見祂--甘為霖牧師生平考略〉，《臺灣教會公報》3529期21版
8. "Creeke, Christopher Crabb". UKPG Database. Archived from the original on 25 December 2004. Retrieved 3 March 2008.
9. Location of grave and VC medal at the Wayback Machine (archived 2004-10-27)(Dorset)
10. "Lasting-memorial-for-murder-victim". Bournemouth Echo. 18 November 2007. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
11. "Adultery, jealousy and murder: How the Rattenbury case gripped the nation". Bournemouth Echo. 4 June 2015. Retrieved 4 June 2025.

External links

• Wimborne Road Cemetery, Bournemouth at Find a Grave

Media related to Wimborne Road Cemetery at Wikimedia Commons