Cemeteries - Bulawayo Athlone Cemetery - Military names
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).
Southern Rhodesia Register of War Dead
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.