"Gallant officers and men of the Royal Navy and Marines to the number of about twenty thousand, formerly inmates of the Royal Hospital Greenwich, whose remains were interred in this cemetery between the years 1749 and 1869."
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Sailors buried in the Devonport House burial ground
The names on the monument are of men whose claim to immortality is their role...
Born Hampshire, son of a naval officer. Went to sea aged 15. Served in: Eas...
From the Sub Fire Station 6W, Cheyne Place. Died in a fire which took the li...
It was built when it was found that there were low stocks of artillery - but ...
