Welcome to the web site on the Friends of Newtown Road Cemetery.

The Friends were set up in association with Newbury Town Council to help restore the cemetery to its former glory after it was closed in 2000 on health and safety grounds. In the subsequent years, the Friends have undertaken may tasks including assisting with nature surveys and providing information and pictures for display boards.

We are also undertaking a full memorial recording programme to ensure that the information on all the memorials is preserved on the web site where everyone can access it.

Our History Research Group is actively searching through old documents and certificates to try and find out as much as possible about every single person buried there.

If you wish to join the friends or have any information about people buried here, then we would be delighted to hear from you.

If you wish to visit the cemetery, it is open daily (except Christmas Day) between 10am and 3pm.

Dates for your Diary.

The dates listed below are special events being run by The Friends of Newtown Road Cemetery.
For more information, please go to the events page.

Commonwealth War Graves

In remembrance of the servicemen who gave their lives in service of their country and are buried in the Newtown Road Cemetery and recognised as a Commonwealth War Grave by the Commonweath War Graves Commission.

	Name	Date of Death	Age	Service
	Beckwith, Philip	15/10/1943	42	Army Service Corps
	Burton, John Alexander	26/09/1943	49	Merchant Navy, M.V. Athlone Castle (London)
	Crame, Arthur George	23/01/1941	29	Royal Engineers
	Davies, Philip Edgar	24/01/1917	28	East Surrey Regiment 10th Bn.
	Davis, Alexander Herbert	21/01/1915	26	London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) 3rd/28th Bn.
	Digweed, John Henry	04/11/1919	32	Royal Army Service Corps M.T.
	Freeman, Harold Sidney	06/09/1916	26	Royal Berkshire Regiment, 6th Bn
	Griffiths, Alfred	19/09/1917	37	Royal Garrison Artillery
	Jackson, William	16/11/1916	48	Royal Engineers 7th Labour Bn.
	Jessett, Alfred Charles	27/12/1940	39	Royal Air Force
	Maccabee, Thomas Arthur	01/03/1920	31	2/4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment
	Pearce, Frederick Edward George	24/01/1917	43	Royal Berkshire Regiment 2nd Bn.
	Plenty, Edward Pellew	22/11/1918	21	Royal Air Force 96th Sqdn.
	Pryke, Arthur William	27/10/1942	21	Royal Air Force
	Quarterman, Cecil Francis	19/06/1920	26	Royal Garrison Artillery 24th Siege Bty.
	Rawlings, Stanley Clifford	25/06/1945	21	Fleet Air Arm (Royal Navy)
	Raynor, Rowland Edwin John	01/04/1915	28	Royal Field Artillery 93rd Bty.
	Richardson, Percy	09/11/1918	26	Middlesex Regiment transf. to (180434) Labour Corps
	Savage, Edward George	03/02/1917	20	Royal Flying Corps
	Webb, Philip	15/08/1918		Royal Garrison Artillery

Aerial view of the cemetery

This is a zoomable image taken by the RAF in 1950. Note that the now demolished dissenter's chapel is still present in this picture. You can also see the temporary building used for St. John's Church following the bombing in 1943.

Reproduced here with kind permission from the copyright holder © English Heritage. NMR RAF Photography

Where is the Cemetery?

You can use the map below to locate the cemetery in relation to the A339 that runs through the centre of Newbury.

The Cemetery is the long vertical space in the centre of the map between Newtown Road and Old Newtown Road.

A Postcode on Newtown Road to get you there using your Sat-Nav is RG14 7BT.

We remember them...

On this day the following people were buried in Newtown Road Cemetery.
An asterisk (*) by the date means that the date of death has been used as we do not have a precise date of burial.