Morton Cemetery - Keighley, UK - Veteran Cemeteries on Waymarking.com

The veterans section of the cemetery is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. "There are 22 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war commemorated here on panels adjoining a Special Memorial in the form of a life size Portland Stone statue of a First World War Soldier upon a decorated podium."

The war memorial is the only marker for the soldiers, they are buried in one single plot in front of it and there are no individual headstones. They were all veterans that died in the nearby Keighley war hospital and include 4 Canadian and 1 Australian.

The memorial was originally erected on 12th August 1921 by the local authority, but it and the war graves were later transferred to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

There is an inscription on the memorial with the following text.

1914 - 1918
THOSE HONOURED HERE DIED IN
THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY
AND LIE BURIED NEAR THIS SPOT

Visiting hours: Unknown Website pertaining to the cemetery: [Web Link] Date cemetery was established: Not listed

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