British Cemetery Montevideo Soldiers and Sailors

The British Cemetery Montevideo, Uruguay. (Cementerio Británico)
Established 1828
Location

Montevideo,  Uruguay

map
Website The British Cemetery

British Cemetery Montevideo Sailors and Soldiers contains information about servicemen of different nationalities whose tombs can be found within the Cemetery. A few of these ships are well known to the general public, such as the Royston Grange or the Achilles, which was involved in the "Battle of the River Plate".

The British Cemetery Montevideo is included in the Roll of Honour and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Contents

British Servicemen Early years

British Servicemen 1914-1918

British Servicemen 1939-1945

German Sailors from the Battle of the River Plate who settled in Montevideo

US Servicemen

STV Royston Grange

Sailors Corner

This Section of the British Cemetery contains the graves of quite a number of sailors of different nationalities, although the majority are of British descent. Some served with the Armed Forces, and others are from merchant ships that were in the River Plate area at the time.

Other locations within the Cemetery

Salvation Army

References

Material used from original documents held in the British Cemetery Montevideo.

External links

Special events