BULAWAYO MEMORIES

Cemeteries - Bulawayo Athlone Cemetery - Military Headstones

Bulawayo (Athlone) Cemetery is a large Civil Cemetery in Bulawayo town. The Commission plot is easily identified by the Cross of Sacrifice.

There are 7 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war and a further 133 of the 1939-1945 war. There are also 24 non world war burials and 6 Greek burials.

Bulawayo (Athlone) Cemetery belongs to the Town Council. (Here was buried Sir Charles Coghland, the first Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia; but in 1930 he was reburied 43 kilometres away on the Matopo Hills, near the graves of Rhodes and Jameson).

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Headstone Engraving details
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Grave Registration Report details WW1
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Grave Registration Report details WW2
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Starting from Empire House (the Branch and Headquarters of the Legion) on the corner of 6th Avenue and Main Street, drive north along the Main Street for 1.2 kilometres to a crossroads where Main Street becomes Athlone Avenue. Continue along Athlone Avenue for a further 2 kilometres and the Civil Cemetery will be found on the right, the inconspicuous entrance being about 150 metres before the railway bridge.