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Lodges, Kirkdale Cemetery

Although named Kirkdale Cemetery, this cemetery, which opened in 1881, is actually in Longmoor Lane, Fazakerley
A large Canadian hospital opened at Kirkdale in July 1917 and of the 386 First World War burials in this cemetery, more than 100 are Canadian. Of the remainder, 82 are of officers and men of the King's (Liverpool) Regiment. There are two war graves plots, where the names of the dead are recorded on screen wall panels. There are also 115 Second World War burials, nine of them in one of the First World War plots, the rest scattered. This cemetery also contains nine war graves of other nationalities, originally there were many more, including American and German from the First World War and Belgian from both wars, but these were later removed to other national cemeteries in the United Kingdom or repatriated to their home country.