Established 1899 Country Australia No. of graves >201,000 Phone +61 1300 793 109 | Size 98.34 ha Founded 1899 | |
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Owned by Metropolitan Cemeteries Board Hours Open today · 8:30AM–12:30PMSaturday8:30AM–12:30PMSundayClosedMonday8:30AM–5PMTuesday8:30AM–5PMWednesday8:30AM–5PMThursday8:30AM–5PMFriday8:30AM–5PM Similar Parliament House - Perth, St George's Cathedral - Perth, Kings Park - Western Australia, St Mary's Cathedral - Perth, Fremantle Harbour | ||
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Karrakatta Cemetery is a metropolitan cemetery in the suburb of Karrakatta in Perth, Western Australia. Karrakatta Cemetery first opened for burials in 1899, with Robert Creighton. Managed by the Metropolitan Cemeteries Board, the cemetery attracts more than one million visitors each year. Cypress trees located near the main entrance are a hallmark of Karrakatta Cemetery. The cemetery contains a crematorium, and in 1995 Western Australia's first mausoleum opened at the site.
Contents
The entrance (known as the Waiting House) includes a structure designed by George Temple Poole.
Notable people
People interred at Karrakatta Cemetery include: Prime Minister John Curtin, Governor-General Sir Paul Hasluck, author Joseph Furphy, Qantas co-founder Paul McGinness, Premier Sir John Forrest and John Scaddan, Auber Octavius Neville, Matthew Raymond Locke MG, Monty Miller, and William Baldwin (member of the New Zealand House of Representatives). In addition, the ashes of Academy Award-winning actor Heath Ledger were scattered on his family's plot in the cemetery.
There are also ten Victoria Cross recipients who are interred in Karrakatta
War graves
As at December 2016 Karrakatta Cemetery contains the graves of 107 Commonwealth service personnel of World War I and 141 of World War II, besides a Dutch naval sailor of the latter war, divided between the cemetery's various denominational plots.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has a memorial to 15 Australian service personnel - 2 sailors, 9 soldiers, 4 airmen - who died in World War II and were cremated at Karrakatta Crematorium. In addition, 7 Australian personnel of the same war - 2 sailors, 4 soldiers, 1 airman -who were cremated at Karrakatta Crematorium but whose ashes had been scattered or buried at places where CWGC commemoration was not possible are listed by name on the Western Australia Cremation Memorial at the separate Perth War Cemetery.