The Mount Gravatt Cemetery and Crematorium is a cemetery and crematorium located at 620 Mains Road,
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History
The cemetery opened in 1918 and the crematorium in 1999.
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Burial and cremation options
Unlike many cemeteries in Brisbane, Mount Gravatt is still open with new burial sites available. The cemetery offers lawn and lawn beam memorials and traditional headstones.[
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Notable people
Notable people buried at Mount Gravatt include:
* Roy Armstrong
Roy Alexander Armstrong (14 January 1914 – 26 April 1991 ) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Biography
Armstrong was born in Warwick, Queensland, the son of Samuel John Armstrong and his wife Ann Isabel (née Hall) and was ...
, politician
* Felix Dittmer
Felix Cyril Sigismund Dittmer (27 June 1904 – 29 August 1977) , politician
* Alfred Dohring
Alfred Dohring (11 July 1896 – 13 July 1982) was an Australian politician. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Early life
Alfred Dohring was born on 11 July 1896 in Alpha, Queensland, the son of August Dohring and his ...
, politician
* Kevin Hooper, politician
* Clive Hughes, politician
* Alec Lamont, politician
* Robert Nimmo
Lieutenant General Robert Harold Nimmo, (22 November 1893 – 4 January 1966) was a senior Australian Army officer who served in World War I, World War II, with the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan, as general officer commandi ...
, soldier
* James Toohey, prospector
War graves
The cemetery contains war graves of six Commonwealth service personnel of World War II
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Gallery
File:Mount Gravatt Cemetery from Mains.jpg, Mount Gravatt Cemetery, seen from Mains Road through a fence (2018).
File:Mount Gravatt Cemetery, Queensland.jpg, Mount Gravatt Cemetery (2019).
References
External links
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{{Cemeteries in Queensland, state= collapsed
Cemeteries in Brisbane
1918 establishments in Australia
Cemeteries established in the 1910s