disaster in 1878 Hannah Maria Purcell: widow of William Purcell, carpenter of HMS Bounty John "White Hat" Willis: son of John "Jock" Willis (known as Old Stormy Willis), founder of Jock Willis Shipping Line (a company that owned, among others, the Cutty Sark) Others: Some victims of the Bethnal Green Disaster Monument to children who were in the care of the charity of Thomas Barnardo, and were buried elsewhere in the cemetery in unmarked graves Graves of the Charterhouse Brothers, Carthusian monks who lived in the London Charterhouse French graves, French workers who came to London to help refine gold from the Australian gold rushes, the Rothschilds had already been refining gold in Paris The Blitz Memorial, a memorial to those who died in The Blitz, made of bricks from damaged properties The Westwood Monument: Joseph Westwood (both father and son) were involved in the iron industry, including the building of iron ships and other constructions The War Memorial, located near the entrance on Southern Grove War graves There are 279 Commonwealth service personnel of both World Wars buried here, the names of all being listed on bronze panels on a screen wall memorial in the Mile End section of the park near the entrance on Southern Grove, as are those of four Dutch merchant seamen. Nine British merchant seamen are buried here who were killed when their ship, SS Bennevis, was hit by a high explosive bomb on 7 September 1940, while berthed in the West India Docks, during an air raid in World War II. References External links Tower Hamlets Council Parks website Aerial view from 1934, from the English Heritage "Britain from Above" archive Cemeteries in London Parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets 1841 establishments in England Anglican cemeteries in the United Kingdom Local nature reserves in Greater London Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in England Mile End