Kirkley Cemetery

Located on London Road South, the cemetery is maintained by Waveney District Council and is open for traditional and Green Burials.

[2] Amongst them are Lance Corporal John Murdoch Dirom who was killed during preparations for Operation Overlord in 1944 aged 22.

[3] Here also are buried civilian casualties of air raids on Lowestoft during World War II.

[4] The cemetery's Lychgate,[5] South Western[6] and North Eastern Chapels[7] were all listed in 1998 as Grade II listed buildings.

[8] These were designed by the Lowestoft-born architect J. L. Clemence (1822–1911) and were built in 1880.

The Lychgate at Kirkley Cemetery
The Twin Chapels at Kirkley Cemetery