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Lutwyche Cemetery

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Established
  
1878

Country
  
Australia

Owned by
  
Brisbane City Council

Date formed
  
1878

Location
  
Kedron, Brisbane

Type
  
Monumental

Owner
  
City of Brisbane

Lutwyche Cemetery

Address
  
Kedron QLD 4031, Australia

Similar
  
Toowong Cemetery, Nudgee Cemetery, Albany Creek Memorial, Kedron Services Club, Gaythorne RSL

Lutwyche cemetery


Lutwyche Cemetery is an Australian cemetery located at Kedron, Brisbane. It opened in 1878 and saw its first burial in the same year. It is located at the corner of Gympie and Kitchener Roads approximately ten kilometres north of Brisbane.

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Notable people interred

A list of people buried in Lutwyche Cemetery can be found in the Category:Burials at Lutwyche Cemetery and in the list below:

  • 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
  • John Andrew Stuart, 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
  • Buddy Williams, Australian country music pioneer
  • War graves

    The cemetery contains war graves of nine Commonwealth service personnel of World War I and 389 of World War II, besides three 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.

    Within the cemetery is a Cross of Sacrifice commemorating those who served in World War I and World War II, which was erected and paid for by the Imperial War Graves Commission. The stone used is Freestone (Helidon) and it was completed in 1950.

    References

    Lutwyche Cemetery Wikipedia