Sofia Central Cemetery

📍 Sofia, София, Bulgaria

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Central Sofia Cemetery which is the main city cemetery.It is located approximately 2 kilometres north of the railway station on Parva Bulgarska Armia Street, with the cemetery entrance located opposite Mara Buneva Street. The Commission cemetery (Sofia War Cemetery) is located to the rear right hand side. Sofia War Cemetery contains the graves of Commonwealth servicemen who died as prisoners of war or with the occupying forces following the Bulgarian capitulation in September 1918. The original cemetery contained 62 war burials, most of which were brought in from Dubnitza Cemetery, Radomir Cemetery and Military Cemetery, and Sofia Town Cemetery. Further graves were brought in from Varna Protestant Cemetery in 1955 and from Ruschuk British and Jewish Cemeteries in 1960. The Second World War burials are mainly those of airmen who died in raids over Bulgaria towards the end of the war. There is also a special memorial to Major W F Thompson, Royal Artillery, a popular war hero in Bulgaria, who died in June 1944 while helping Bulgarian partisans. His grave, at Letakovo, could not be marked or permanently maintained. Sofia War Cemetery now contains 160 First World War burials and 28 from the Second World War. There are also 12 non war civilian and service graves.

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Deceased (1.054)

W S Barrett

1944

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Arthur Pearson

1890 – 1918

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B. R. Dart

1882 – 1918

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Stoyan Aleksandrov Manov

1963 – 1989

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W Gibson

1918

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Ruska Petrova Katerowa Stefanova Popova

1903 – 1952

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W Wardrop

1918

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Васил Лалев Метев

1931 – 2007

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Gerald Randolph Pond

1920 – 1944

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Charles Gifford Hill

1923 – 1944

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Frederick Daniel Stephens

1891 – 1918

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Ljubomir Ivanov “Ljubco” Serafimov

1952 – 1988

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Alexei Alexeyevich Smagin

1857 – 1928

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William Grisdale

1944

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G Blake

1918

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Robert Murray MacDuff

1918

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T W Skingley

1918

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Mstislav Sergeyevich Kurchatov

1911 – 1995

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Marion “General” Jack

1866 – 1954

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