{"id":1992,"date":"2010-11-13T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=1992"},"modified":"2010-11-13T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T15:11:00","slug":"spring-road-cemetery-5-memorials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=1992","title":{"rendered":"Spring Road Cemetery &#8211; 5 memorials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Spring Road Cemetery (also sometimes known as the Old Cemetery) are the memorials of a number of interesting people and I thought I&#8217;d start an occasional series to point some of them out. If anybody has any more details or corrections I would be interested to get my facts right.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Spring Road Cemetery\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10111401.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/archive\/2005\/03\/29\/Oxfordshire+Archive\/6558171.Unique_mayor_could_be_in_line_for_plaque\/\">Arthur Preston<\/a>, historian, Abingdon Mayor and Freeman has a headstone near the lower chapel of rest.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Spring Road Cemetery\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10111405.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOne of the largest stones has been erected for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Creemer_Clarke\">John Creemer Clarke<\/a>, Member of Parliament, clothing manufacturer, and the benefactor who helped fund the building of Trinity church and the cottage hospital.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Spring Road Cemetery\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10111404.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAt the top end of the cemetery is a memorial to J E Steven of the Royal Navy Air Service who died in 1917 during WWI.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Spring Road Cemetery\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10111406.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nNot far away, two other persons buried in the cemetery during World War I were from China. I am told they were part of a labour camp at Milton. For many years their graves were surrounded by iron railings since it was the custom to leave money scattered on Chinese graves. Their names : Ar Fook and Muk Sheung.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Spring Road Cemetery (also sometimes known as the Old Cemetery) are the memorials of a number of interesting people and I thought I&#8217;d start an occasional series to point some of them out. If anybody has any more details or corrections I would be interested to get my facts right. Arthur Preston, historian, Abingdon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}