Lutwyche Cemetery
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| Year established | 1878 |
| Location | Kedron, Brisbane |
| Country | Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°24′6.1″S 153°1′44.3″E / 27.401694°S 153.028972°ECoordinates: 27°24′6.1″S 153°1′44.3″E / 27.401694°S 153.028972°E |
| Type | Monumental |
| Owned by | Brisbane City Council |
Lutwyche Cemetery is an Australian cemetery located at Kedron, Brisbane. It opened in 1878 and saw its first burial in the same year.[1] It is located at the corner of Gympie and Kitchener Roads approximately ten kilometres north of Brisbane.
Notable people interred
- Charles Moffatt Jenkinson, Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly and mayor of Brisbane
- Lionel Lukin, Supreme Court of Queensland Judge
- Billy Sing, World War I Sniper[2]
- Bertram Steele, Scientist, Professor of Chemistry (He was later cremated)[3]
- John Andrew Stuart,[4] who along with James Richard Finch was responsible for the Whiskey Au Go Go fire that killed 15 people
- George Witton, Court Martialed along with Breaker Morant and Peter Handcock for the killing of Boer prisoners
War Graves
The cemetery contains war graves of 9 Commonwealth service personnel of World War I and 389 of World War II, besides 3 servicemen of other nationalities. Within the cemetery's war graves plot stands the Queensland Cremation Memorial, erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, recording 36 Australian service personnel who died in Queensland during World War II and were cremated.[5] Within the cemetery is a Cross of Sacrifice, erected and paid for by the Imperial War Graves Commission. The stone used is Freestone (Helidon) and it was completed in 1950.[6]
References
- ↑ Historic Cemeteries — Brisbane City Council. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
- ↑ "Brisbane graveside ceremony for famed Gallipoli sniper". Brisbane Times. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
- ↑ Chiswell, Barry (1990). "Steele, Bertram Dillon (1870 - 1934)". Australian Dictionary of Biography 12. Canberra: Australian National University. Retrieved June 6, 2012.
- ↑ Stuart, John Andrew — Brisbane City Council Grave Location Search. Retrieved 26 May 2012.
- ↑ CWGC Cemetery Report.
- ↑ "File:StateLibQld 1 117184 Cross of Sacrifice at Lutwyche Cemetery, Brisbane, ca. 1954.jpg". wikimedia.org. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
External links
- Lutwyche Cemetery Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (www.interment.net)
- The Lutwyche Cemetery Project (partial transcription)