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Belfast City Cemetery

  • Country United Kingdom
  • Total identified casualties 578 Find these casualties
  • Region County Antrim
  • Identified casualties from First & Second World War
  • GPS Coordinates Latitude: 54.58858, Longitude: -5.97025

Please note

Visitors should be aware of vehicle congestion at the entrance.

Visiting information

Please note there are currently 59 graves at Belfast City Cemetery that are unmarked following acts of vandalism. Improvements to security at the site are planned and the impact of these will be regularly monitored. An update on the reinstatement of the headstones will be available in December 2021.

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History information

The cemetery has commemorations from both world wars and a Cross of Sacrifice is erected within the site.

There are now 296 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war and 274 of the 1939-1945 war commemorated here. Of the 1939-1945 burials 5 are unidentified. There are also 3 Norwegian Foreign Nationals and 7 non world war burials here. Those of the 1914-1918 war whose graves are not marked by headstones are named on a Screen Wall memorial in Plot H.