- Source: Old Church Cemetery (Cobh)
The Old Church Cemetery (also known as Cobh Cemetery) is an ancient cemetery on the outskirts of the town of Cobh, County Cork, Ireland which contains a significant number of important burials, including a number 3 mass graves and several individual graves containing the remains of 193 victims of the passenger ship RMS Lusitania which was sunk by a German torpedo off the Old Head of Kinsale during the First World War in May 1915 with the loss of more than 1,100 lives. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission register and maintain the graves of 127 identified Commonwealth service personnel (including Lusitania victims) from the same war.
Notable burials
Captain Thomas Brierley, awarded a medal for his part in rescue of survivors from RMS Lusitania
Jack Doyle (1913–1978), boxer, singer, Irish Guards soldier and actor
Robert Forde (1875–1959), Antarctic explorer
Charles Hallahan (1943–1997), American actor
Frederick Daniel Parslow (1856–1915), posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross and first member of the British Mercantile Marine to receive the award
Charles Wolfe (1791–1823), poet, remembered for "The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna"
Louis Piatt (1876–1884), son of American poets John James Piatt and Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt; drowned in a boating accident in Cork Harbor
Dr James Roche Verling (1787–1858), personal physician to Emperor of the French Napoleon Bonaparte during his exile on St. Helena
Six members of the crew of the British Royal Navy submarine HMS A5 which was destroyed in an accidental explosion at nearby Haulbowline Naval Base in February 1905
References
External links
Old Church Cemetery at Find a Grave
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Old Church Cemetery (Cobh)
- Cobh
- List of cemeteries in Ireland
- North L.A Beamish
- Charles Wolfe
- Joseph Foster Stackhouse
- Robert Forde
- Frederick Daniel Parslow
- James Roche Verling
- Ann Lovett
