The Church of England section was consecrated by Ashurst Gilbert, Bishop of Chichester, followed by a service in All Saints Church.
[1] Hastings Crematorium is located within the cemetery.
[2] Hastings Cemetery contains the war graves of 176 Commonwealth service personnel (including two unidentified Royal Navy sailors) of World War I and 69 of World War II.
Those whose graves could not be individually marked are listed on a Screen Wall Memorial.
There are also buried here a Belgian army soldier of World War I and a German soldier and six German airmen of World War II.