Trafalgar Cemetery

The Trafalgar Cemetery is a burial ground in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar which was used from 1798 to 1814 and fell later. Although the name commemorates the Battle of Trafalgar, only two people are buried there, who had participated in the battle and died of their wounds in Gibraltar. Those who died during the battle, were buried at sea.

History

Seven years before the famous naval battle dedicated to the Graveyard as a Southport Ditch Cemetery. The majority of the dead comes from the three yellow fever epidemics of 1804, 1813 and 1814. Too, was buried here the Napoleonic wars Fallen on the Iberian Peninsula. The cemetery is located in the south of the peninsula and can be visited.