The Royal Naval Cemetery and Portland Harbour seen from the Verne Citadel entrance.
Royal Naval Cemetery (once known as Naval and Military Cemetery) is a cemetery on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. The site overlooks Portland Harbour, and is found below the main entrance to the Verne Citadel (HM Prison The Verne). As the name suggests, the graveyard holds deceased servicemen and officers of Portland's Royal Navy which was stationed at the island until 1995. The cemetery holds 140 identified casualties in total to date, and is owned by the Ministry of Defence. There are other cemeteries designated the "Royal Naval Cemetery" at various other locations associated with the Royal Navy, such as the Royal Naval Cemetery (sometimes also referred to as The Glade) on the island of Ireland, location of the Royal Naval Dockyard in the Imperial fortress British Overseas Territory of Bermuda (yet other cemeteries have similar designations, such as Royal Navy Burying Ground, in Halifax, Nova Scotia).[1][2][3]
The cemetery was first laid out during the 19th century. With the establishment of a naval base at Portland Harbour, and the Verne Citadel fortification, a number of fatalities began to occur.[4] Burials of World War I (1914–1918) total 65, where 5 remain unidentified. The majority of World War II (1939–1945) graves are together in the Church of England section, near the Cross of Sacrifice. Of the buried, 10 are unidentified, whilst there are burials for 1 Norwegian Merchant Navy seaman and 12 German airmen.[5] The cemetery remains well looked after to date and features a small amount of newer burials of recently deceased servicemen.
^"Bermuda Royal Naval Cemetery". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
^"Historic Cemeteries: Royal Naval Cemetery". Bermuda National Trust. Retrieved 1 July 2023. This large naval cemetery of 2.73 acres at the side of the road leading into Dockyard, was known as the Glade. Ireland Island was bought by the Admiralty in 1809 and the cemetery consecrated in 1812. The first burial ground was a narrow strip which is now the central portion of the cemetery; it was enlarged several times, notably after three yellow fever epidemics in 1837, 1843 and 1853. As the cemetery filled up, the categories of people who could be buried there were reduced, starting with the exclusion of convicts in 1849. By 1853 only Royal Naval personnel and residents of Ireland Island could be interred there.
^"Discover the Bermuda National Trust Cemeteries of the West". The Bermudian magazine. 20 October 2022. Retrieved 1 July 2023. Royal Naval Cemetery – Malabar Road, Ireland Island, Sandys
^Carter, Geoffrey (1986). The Royal Navy at Portland since 1845. Maritime Books. p. 28. ISBN 978-0907771296.
^Reading Room Manchester. "Cemetery Details". CWGC. Retrieved 22 November 2012.
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