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Mt Gravatt Cemetery
The Mount Gravatt Cemetery and Crematorium is a cemetery and crematorium located at 620 Mains Road, Nathan, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is operated by the City of Brisbane. History The cemetery opened in 1918 and the crematorium in 1999. 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. Ashes can be placed in niches, or buried or scattered in gardens. Notable people Notable people buried at Mount Gravatt include: * Roy Armstrong, politician * Felix Dittmer, politician * Alfred Dohring, politician * Kevin Hooper, politician * Clive Hughes, politician * Alec Lamont, politician * Robert Nimmo, soldier * James Toohey, prospector War graves The cemetery contains war graves of six Commonwealth service personnel of World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan, Queensland
Nathan is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , it had a population of 1,085. Geography Nathan is home to Toohey Forest Conservation Park, Griffith University's Nathan campus and the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre which hosted the opening ceremony of the 1982 Commonwealth Games. The Queensland Academy of Sport currently uses the facilities located at the stadium. The Mount Gravatt Cemetery is part of Nathan. Nathan remains sparsely populated, with much of the park and university campus being filled with eucalypt forest, grass trees, banksia and leptospermum. Local fauna include tawny frogmouths, powerful owl, hoary wattled bats, sugar gliders, greater gliders, squirrel gliders, flying foxes and possums. Surrounding suburbs include MacGregor, Robertson, Salisbury, Coopers Plains, Tarragindi, Holland Park and Upper Mount Gravatt. The Mount Gravatt Cemetery and Crematorium is located in the suburb along Mains Road. History The Moun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Hooper (politician)
Kevin Joseph (Kev) Hooper, (9 July 19289 March 1984), was an Australian politician representing the Labor Party. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for the Electoral district of Archerfield from 1972 till his death in 1984. Nicknamed "Big Vinnie" after a notorious Mafia informant, he was known for championing the cause of the underdog; he was outspoken in his attacks on illegal prostitution, drugs, gambling, and white-collar crime. Hooper died after surgery in 1984. He is buried in Mt Gravatt Cemetery The Mount Gravatt Cemetery and Crematorium is a cemetery and crematorium located at 620 Mains Road, Nathan, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is operated by the City of Brisbane. History The cemetery opened in 1918 and the crematorium in 1999 .... — Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cemeteries In Brisbane
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally applied to the Roman catacombs. The term ''graveyard'' is often used interchangeably with cemetery, but a graveyard primarily refers to a burial ground within a churchyard. The intact or cremated remains of people may be interred in a grave, commonly referred to as burial, or in a tomb, an "above-ground grave" (resembling a sarcophagus), a mausoleum, columbarium, niche, or other edifice. In Western cultures, funeral ceremonies are often observed in cemeteries. These ceremonies or rites of passage differ according to cultural practices and religious beliefs. Modern cemeteries often include crematoria, and some grounds previously used for both, continue as crematoria as a principal use long after the interment areas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Toohey (prospector)
James Toohey (1827-1883) was a prominent Irish-Australian land owner of the early colony of Brisbane. Early life James Toohey was born in Galway, Ireland in 1826, the son of Peter and Bridget Toohey (nee Dirnan). His father served as an officer in the British Army in North America and after retirement, in 1832 brought his family to New Norfolk, Tasmania near to the penal colony of Hobart. In 1836 his father Peter, went to New Zealand in search of work as a cooper. James, his mother and three of his siblings remained in Tasmania until November 1837 when the family moved to Sydney, Australia. Peter supported his family until he drowned in a river in the Bay of Islands area of New Zealand in 1840. James Toohey joined the 1849 Gold Rush of California where he made his fortune as a blacksmith.Toohey family verbal history He returned to Australia in 1853 and settled in Brisbane, Queensland. James married Anne Dogherty, daughter of John Dogherty and Fanny Cavanagh, on 30 August 185 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 commanding (GOC) Northern Command in Australia, and finally as the chief military observer of the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan from 1950 until his death in 1966. Raised on a sheep station in far north Queensland, Nimmo attended the Southport School in southern Queensland before entering the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in 1912. He was the senior cadet of his class, which graduated early to participate in World War I. He served with the 5th Light Horse Regiment during the Gallipoli and Sinai and Palestine campaigns, reaching the rank of major. He was praised for his leadership as a light horse squadron commander and for his skills as the brigade major of the 1st Light Horse Brigade in the final stages of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alec Lamont
Alexander James "Alec" Lamont (8 February 1850 – 27 June 1934) was a barrister and a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. Lamont was born in Cheshire, England, to parents Charles Gordon Lamont and his wife Christiana (née James). He first commenced his legal service in Sydney in 1876 and in 1898 was working as a barrister in Brisbane. Later on he was the manager of Webster & Co before joining the Union Trustee Co. and the Bengal Chutney Co. Political career Lamont was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, holding the seat of South Brisbane from 1902 until his defeat at the 1904 state election. He had also served on the Brisbane Water and Sewerage Board and was a Trustee of the South Brisbane Cemetery Board. Personal life Lamont married Ellen Bannister in London and later married Harriet Grindley Daniels in Liverpool and together had three sons and three daughters. Lamont died in Brisbane in June 1934 and his funeral proceeded from ''Talavera'', his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Hughes (Queensland Politician)
Clive Melwyn Hughes (15 May 1924 – 19 October 2014) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. Biography Hughes was born in New Farm, Queensland, the son of Isaac John Hughes and his wife Myra May (née Naylor). He was educated at local state schools and served in the RAAF during World War II, achieving the rank of Leading Aircraftman.HUGHES, CLIVE MELWYN — World War II Nominal Roll. Retrieved 9 April 2016. On 15 June 1946 he married Mary Donovan and together had two sons and one daughter. He then married Margaret O'Brien on 5 September 1965 and they had one son. Hughes died in October 2014 and was buried in the |
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 wife Jane (née Donnell). Politics Dohring was the member for Roma in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1953 to 1957, representing first the Labor Party and then the breakaway Queensland Labor Party in 1957. Fall from Story Bridge On Thursday 29 July 1954, Dohring fell 100 feet from the centre span of the Story Bridge to the Brisbane River below. An officer on the freighter ''Daylesford'' heard the splash and dispatched two seamen in a ship's boat who dragged the unconscious Dohring from the water. He suffered extensive injuries and was placed in an iron lung at the Brisbane General Hospital The Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital (RBWH) is a tertiary public hospital located in Herston, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brisbane City Council
Brisbane City Council (BCC) is the democratic executive local government authority for the City of Brisbane, the capital city of the state of Queensland, Australia. The largest City Council in Australia by population and area, BCC's jurisdiction includes 26 wards and 27 elected councillors covering 1338km2. BCC is overseen by the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Adrian Schrinner, and the Council of Brisbane (all councillors of the City of Brisbane) and the Civic Cabinet (Councillors that chair one of eight standing committees within BCC). The Council's CEO is Colin Jensen, supported by EO Ainsley Gold. Strategy Brisbane City Council is guided by two core future planning documents: ''Brisbane's Future Blueprint'' (infrastructure, cultural, and capital works projects), and ''Brisbane Vision 2031'' (corporate and city planning). Council also does more frequent but smaller scale community consultations through the ''Your City Your Say'' platform. ''Brisbane Future Blueprint'' '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Dittmer
Felix Cyril Sigismund Dittmer (27 June 1904 – 29 August 1977)Dittmer, Felix Cyril Sigismund (1904–1977) — Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 22 January 2015. was an Australian politician.Dittmer, Dr Felix Cyril Sigismund — . Retrieved 22 January 2015. Early life Felix Cyril ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 educated at Warwick State School. After finishing his schooling he was a timber cutter and haulier before working as a sugarcane farmer. On 4 March 1940 he married Daphne Merle Bauld and together had one son. Daphne died in 1976 and the following year he married Marie Veronica Diery (née Thornton) (died 2006).Search for Notices - Name Search — THE RYERSON INDEX. Retrieved 5 June 2016. Armstrong died in Brisbane in April 1991 and was buried in Brisbane's Mt Gravatt Cemete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
