 Trafalgar Cemetery, Gibraltar
Trafalgar Cemetery, Gibraltar
Author: RedCoat10 (public domain)
The Trafalgar Cemetery is an old cemetery in Gibraltar. It was used for burials between 1798 and 1814. It was given the name to commemorate the Battle of Trafalgar, although the batter only contributed two victims to this particular graveyard. It took place seven years after the cemetery was consecrated. At that time, it was known as the Southport Ditch Cemetery.
Most of the graves in the Trafalgar Cemetery belong to those who died in the three yellow fever epidemics in 1804, 1813 and 1814. Victims of other sea battles of the Napoleonic Wars, such as the of Algeciras in 1801 and those at Cádiz and Málaga in 1810 and 1812 were also buried here.
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