There are 286 Commonwealth War Graves from the Great War and 46 from the Second World War in the cemetery.  Many of the dead from the Great War are buried in the mass graves of a CWGC plot and named on a memorial wall.  Others are located in individual plots throughout the cemetery.  Other casualties of the wars of the Twentieth Century are buried in family plots and commemorated on family memorials.  Many more soldiers are remembered on family memorials but buried in Flanders, France or further afield.  All, including 6 Australians and 9 Belgian soldiers from the Great War, are remembered with individual poppies and a ceremony on the closest Saturday to November 11th and, in the case of the Australians, on ANZAC day.

There are also many veterans of conflicts stretchng back to the Napoleonic Wars and including the Crimean War and the wars of empire.  Notable among these is William Green of the 95th Rifles who survived horrific wounds at the seige of Badajoz in 1812 to live well into his 90s.  We also remember civilian casualties of war including those killed in the Leicester blitz of November 1940.

All are traceable via the Leicestershire and Rutland Family History Society CD database of burials in Welford Road Cemetery or via the Friends who can provide a list of all military casualties buried or commemorated in the cemetery.  Those with memorials will also appear in the Search The Cemetery section of this web site.  We also recommend the Commonwealth War Graves Commission web site for details of those buried within CWGC plots and the War Graves Photographic Project for photos of the graves.