Oystermouth Cemetery
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Oystermouth Cemetery (Welsh: Mynwentydd Ystumllwynarth) is a municipal cemetery in the village of Oystermouth, Swansea, South Wales. It was opened in 1883[1] and remains in use today, run by the Cemeteries and Crematorium Division of the City and County of Swansea.[2] It has 14,162 grave spaces.
The cemetery contains the Commonwealth war graves of 83 service personnel, 28 from World War I and 55 from World War II.[3]
The cemetery offers "woodland burial ground" as an alternative to traditional burial or cremation, the first of its kind in south-west Wales.[4]
- Trevor Ford, Welsh international footballer[5]
- William Charles Fuller, World War I Victoria Cross recipient[6]
- Morfydd Llwyn Owen, musician, composer.
- Harry Parr-Davies, composer[7]
- Rush Rhees, philosopher and lecturer at Swansea University
- William Williams (Swansea MP). Former M.P. for Swansea District. Owner of the Worcester Tinplate Works in Morriston.
- John Jones Jenkins, 1st Baron Glantawe.
- Jeremiah Williams (British politician).
- James Allan Smith former Dean of St Davids Cathedral.
- Graham Chadwick Christian Missionary.
All eight members of the volunteer crew of the lifeboat RNLB Edward, Prince of Wales (ON 678), who lost their lives in the Mumbles lifeboat disaster on 23 April 1947 are interred at the cemetery.[8][9] They are:
- William John Gammon, coxswain, aged 46.
- William Noel, second coxswain, aged 42.
- William Gilbert Davies, first motor mechanic, aged 42.
- Ernest Griffin, assistant second motor mechanic, aged 51.
- William Richard Scourfield Thomas, bowman, aged 48.
- William Lewis Howell, boatman, aged 32.
- William Ronald Thomas, boatman, aged 34.
- Richard Smith, boatman, aged 35.