Lutwyche Cemetery is a cemetery located at Kedron,

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, Australia. 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.

Notable people interred

A list of people buried in Lutwyche Cemetery can be found in the and in the list below: *

Charles Moffatt Jenkinson Charles Moffatt Jenkinson (1865–1954) was a Queensland politician. Early life Charles Moffatt Jenkinson was born on 28 March 1865 in Birmingham, England. He immigrated to Queensland in 1883, where he worked mostly as a journalist. He was pu ...

(1865–1954),

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and

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(1868–1944), Supreme Court of Queensland judge * Patrick Short (1859–1941), the first Queensland-born police commissioner (1921–1925) *

Billy Sing William Edward Sing, Distinguished Conduct Medal, DCM (3 March 1886 – 19 May 1943) was an Australian Digger (soldier), soldier of Chinese and English descent who served in the First Australian Imperial Force, Australian Imperial Force during W ...

(1886–1943),

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* John Andrew Stuart (–1979), who along with James Richard Finch was responsible for the 1973

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that killed 15 people *

George Witton George Ramsdale Witton (28 June 1874 – 14 August 1942) was a lieutenant in the Bushveldt Carbineers in the Boer War in South Africa. He was sentenced to death for murder after the shooting of nine Boer prisoners. He was subsequently reprieved ...

(1874–1942), court martialed along with

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and

Peter Handcock Peter Joseph Handcock (17 February 1868 – 27 February 1902) was an Australian-born Veterinary Lieutenant and convicted war criminal who served in the Bushveldt Carbineers during the Boer War in South Africa. After a court martial, Handcock ( ...

for the killing of Boer prisoners * Buddy Williams (1918–1986),

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pioneer

War graves

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The cemetery contains war graves of nine Commonwealth service personnel of

and 389 of

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, besides three servicemen of other nationalities. Within the cemetery's war graves plot stands the Queensland Cremation Memorial, erected by the

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, recording 36 Australian service personnel who died in Queensland during World War II and were cremated at

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. CWGC Cemetery Report. Within the cemetery is a

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commemorating those who served in

and

, which was erected and paid for by the

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. The stone used is Freestone (Helidon) and it was completed in 1950.

Gallery

File:AU-Qld-Kedron-Lutwyche-Cemetery-Gympie Road entrance-2021.jpg, Entry gate from Gympie Road looking west (2021). File:AU-Qld-Kedron-Lutwyche-Cemetery-map-2021.jpg, Cemetery map (2021). File:AU-Qld-Kedron-Lutwyche-Cemetery-graves-2021.jpg, Cemetery portion close to Gympie Road, looking south-south-west (2021). File:AU-Qld-Kedron-Lutwyche-Cemetery-shelter-2021.jpg, Shelter near Gympie Road entrance (2021). File:AU-Qld-Kedron-Lutwyche-Cemetery-George WITTON grave area-2021.jpg, Grave of George Ramsdale Witton, Boer veteran (2021). File:AU-Qld-Kedron-Lutwyche-Cemetery-war grave rows-2021.jpg, Commonweath war grave headstones, looking north-west (2021). File:AU-Qld-Kedron-Lutwyche-Cemetery-war graves-2021.jpg, Commonweath war grave headstones and the

, looking south-east (2021). File:AU-Qld-Kedron-Lutwyche-Cemetery-Billy SING memorial front-2021.jpg, Billy Sing monument (2021). File:AU-Qld-Kedron-Lutwyche-Cemetery-rear road-2021.jpg, Looking east-north-east from Turner Road across the cemetery (2021).

References

External links

Lutwyche Cemetery Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
(www.interment.net)
The Lutwyche Cemetery Project
(partial transcription) {{Cemeteries in Queensland, state= collapsed Cemeteries in Brisbane Geography of Brisbane Queensland in World War II 1878 establishments in Australia