Southampton (Hollybrook) Cemetery  
           
Cemetery Location

This cemetery is located off Tremona Road, opposite the general Accident and Emergency Hospital. From Junction 5 of the M27, take the A35 (Burgess Road/Winchester Road) and follow signs for general hospital.
Cemetery Information
is on high ground in Chilworth Road, Shirley, overlooking Shirley Church and the Isle of Wight. It was opened in 1913, and it belongs to the Corporation. It covers 47 acres. The War Cross stands in front of the plot, and behind the plot is a Memorial to the Missing. During the First World War, Southampton contained Military Hospitals in the University buildings, in the Highfield Institution and at Shirley Warren. Southampton (Hollybrook) Cemetery is on high ground in Chilworth Road, Shirley, two miles north of Southampton West railway station, overlooking Shirley Church and the Isle of Wight. Immediately within the entrance to the cemetery is the War Graves Plot, with the Cross of Remembrance in front of it. 

Situated on a terrace at the back of the War Graves Plot, in the form of a screen wall, is Hollybrook Memorial, which commemorates officers and men of the forces of the Empire who fell in the Great War and whose graves are not known, especially those who went down in transports or other vessels torpedoed or mined in home waters, but it includes the names of others who died at home, or in distant areas, and whose bodies could not be recovered. 

The 1939-1945 burials are mostly in a second War Graves Plot, 500 yards north of the 1914-1918 Plot, to the left of the main path. There is 1 non-world war grave of a member of the Merchant Navy whose death was not due to war service.
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Among those commemorated here are:
 
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Name: Newman, George
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Dorsetshire Regiment
Unit Text: 1st Battalion
Date of Death: 19/02/1919
Age: 8178
Number: K G, K P, G C B, O M, G C S I, G C M G, G C I E
Additional information: Son of William and Charlotte Newman, of 36, Bond St., Northam, Southampton.
Grave/Memorial Reference: B.01.37


 
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