Cologne Southern Cemetery

Cologne Southern Cemetery lies within a large civil cemetery known locally as Koln Sudfriedhof. Koln Sudfriedhof is about 5 kilometres south of the centre of Cologne, on the Honigerweg.

Cologne was entered by Commonwealth forces on 6 December 1918 and occupied under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles until January 1926. Cologne Southern Cemetery was used during the war for the burial of more than 1,000 Allied prisoners, as well as German servicemen. After the Armistice it was used by the occupying garrison. In 1922 it was decided that the graves of Commonwealth servicemen who had died all over Germany should be brought together into four permanent cemeteries. Cologne Southern was one of those chosen and the following year, graves were brought in from 183 burial grounds in Hanover, Hesse, the Rhine and Westphalia.

There are now 2,482 First World War servicemen buried or commemorated in the Commonwealth plots at Cologne, including the grave of James Richard Ormrod (Grave Ref. XV. A. 50.), who died on 18 July 1918.

	202200 PRIVATE / T. HIRST / MANCHESTER REGIMENT / 3RD AUGUST 1917 AGE 26 (Grave Ref. XV. A. 5.) "Husband of Olive L. Hirst, of 105, Cranworth St., Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester." Commonwealth War Graves Commission Debt of Honour Register
	203378 PRIVATE / W. HURST / MANCHESTER REGIMENT / 22ND JULY 1918 AGE 22 / ... (Grave Ref. XV. A. 43.) William Hurst - "Son of John and Annie Hurst, of 57, Lorne St., Ince, Wigan." Commonwealth War Graves Commission Debt of Honour Register
	241127 LANCE CPL. / J. R. ORMROD / SOUTH LANCASHIRE REGT. / 18TH JULY 1918 (Grave Ref. XV. A. 50.)