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4 unusual facts about Layton Cemetery


George Washington Williams

Traveling back from Africa, George Washington Williams died in Blackpool, England, on August 2, 1891, from tuberculosis and pleurisy, and is buried in Layton Cemetery, Blackpool.

Layton Cemetery

Layton Cemetery contains the graves of 139 Commonwealth service personnel of World War I and 39 of World War II, besides, from the latter war, 26 airmen of the Polish Air Force (whose headquarters in exile were in Talbot Square in the town), and one airman of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force.

A number of memorials in the cemetery are executed in Portland stone.

Spencer Timothy Hall

He died at Blackpool on 26 April 1885, and was buried in Layton Cemetery.



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