WBSupport, Author at Wimborne Cemetery

Battle’s Over

31st October 2018

BATTLE’S OVER NATIONAL BEACON LIGHTING EVENT on SUNDAY, 11TH NOVEMBER 2018 from 5.30pm to 7.30 pm (approx.) At 6pm, the Dorset Youth Marching Band will lead the procession from The Square, passed the Royal British Legion and up to the Wimborne Cemetery. There, war graves will be illuminated, accounts from the Great War retold and […]

15th October 2018

We now have a new Cemetery Groundsman who will be working hard over the coming weeks to get all the grass cut and strimmed. Thank you for bearing with us over this difficult time and I hope you will make him feel very welcome. Stone Lane – this is a service entrance for the grave […]

Wimborne History Festival 2018

4th June 2018

This year the festival will commemorate 100 years since the end of the First World War with activities, displays and performances at venues throughout Wimborne Minster, including here at Wimborne Cemetery. For more information see the festival website.

Montague John Druitt

1st April 2018

Born 15th August 1857 Died 4th December 1888 Aged 31 Years Section 8, to west of Chapel. Montague Druitt was the second son of William Druitt, Wimborne’s leading surgeon. The Druitt’s lived at Westfield House which still stands today. Educated at Winchester and Oxford, he became a barrister on the Western Circuit and Winchester Sessions. […]

Capt. John Hanham

1st April 2017

Born 14th January 1823 Died 16th September 1861 Aged 37 years Section 8 Captain John Hanham was killed by a single bullet at Fulwood Barracks, Preston in Lancashire in September 1861. According to a contemporary report, Capt Hanham and the commanding officer of the Fulwood depot, Col Hugh Crofton, were walking across the barracks square when […]

Billy Burden – Wimborne’s Mr Laughter

1st April 2016

Born 15th June 1914 Died 8th June 1994 Aged 79 Years Section 21 J.14 Inscription: ‘Tis a long walk from Dorset’ Billy Burden’s theatrical life began at the Salisbury Playhouse when he responded to an advertisement in The Stage. After a series of comedy roles he appeared in Jack and the Beanstalk where he played […]

Nicholas Wanostrocht

1st April 2015

Born 1804 Died 7th September 1876 Aged 72 years Section 8, near to Chapel Nicholas Wanostrocht (aka N Felix) was born in 1804 and was a celebrity cricketer of the generation before WG Grace. He was an excellent left-handed bat and invented cricketing equipment such as batting gloves and ‘longitudinal socks’ of linen filled with […]

Thomas and Barbara Holloway

1st April 2013

Born 1869 and 1879 (respectively) Died 20th October 1930 Aged 61 and 51 Years Section 4 consecrated On the morning of Monday the 20th October 1930, Thomas Edwin and Louisa ‘Barbara’ Holloway were shot dead in their bedroom at Watsford Farm House near Wimborne. Earlier that year the marriage of the Holloway’s 19-year-old daughter, Trixie […]