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The Ipswich General Cemetery is a historic cemetery in
The cemetery is bounded by Warwick Road, Cooney Street, Parrott Street, Briggs Road and Cemetery Road. It is a denominational cemetery with sections allocated to Roman Catholic Church, Church of England, Methodist Church, Presbyterian Church, Congregational Church, Baptist Church, Lutheran Church, Christadelphian Church and Salvation Army. In addition, there are areas for pioneer graves and war graves.
The Australian forces war graves (comprising 64 army and 24 air force personnel) are on a triangular plot, dominated by a
File:AU-Qld-Ipswich-Cemetery-map-2021.jpg, Map of the cemetery
File:AU-Qld-Ipswich-Cemetery-pioneer graves and Fleming Crypt-2021.jpg, Old pioneer graves (mid-1850s)
File:AU-Qld-Ipswich-Cemetery-Congregational-Uniting graves section-2021.jpg, Congregational graves section
File:AU-Qld-Ipswich-Cemetery-Roman Catholic 2A graves section-2021.jpg, Looking east from the western entrance off Warwick Road
File:AU-Qld-Ipswich-Cemetery-NW to SE view-2021.jpg, Looking north-west to south-east
File:AU-Qld-Ipswich-Cemetery-columbariums-2021.jpg, Columbariums
File:AU-Qld-Ipswich-Cemetery-Ellen Violet JORDAN grave site-2021.jpg, Grave plot of Ellen Violet Jordan
File:AU-Qld-Ipswich-Cemetery-James RYAN-Dan KELLY-2021.jpg, Gravestone and information sign of James Ryan
File:AU-Qld-Ipswich-Cemetery-James RYAN-Dan KELLY sign-2021.jpg, Information sign of James Ryan
File:AU-Qld-Ipswich-Cemetery-war graves section-2021.jpg, War graves section
File:AU-Qld-Ipswich-Cemetery-Australian Imperial Force plates-2021.jpg, Australian Imperial Forces memorial section
Monumental inscriptions and photos
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The Ipswich General Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Ipswich
Ipswich () is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England, of which it is the county town. The town is located in East Anglia about away from the mouth of the River Orwell and the North Sea. Ipswich is both on the Great Eastern Main Line ...
, Queensland
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, nickname = Sunshine State
, image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg
, map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia
, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, establishe ...
, Australia. It is the second oldest cemetery in Queensland.
It is owned by Ipswich City Council
The City of Ipswich is a local government area in Queensland, Australia, located within the southwest of the Brisbane metropolitan area, including the urban area surrounding the city of Ipswich and surrounding rural areas.
Geography
The C ...
, but the council have outsourced the day-to-day operations to a private contractor Norwood Park Limited, trading as Ipswich Cemeteries.
Geography
The cemetery is bounded by Warwick Road, Cooney Street, Parrott Street, Briggs Road and Cemetery Road. It is a denominational cemetery with sections allocated to Roman Catholic Church, Church of England, Methodist Church, Presbyterian Church, Congregational Church, Baptist Church, Lutheran Church, Christadelphian Church and Salvation Army. In addition, there are areas for pioneer graves and war graves.
The Australian forces war graves (comprising 64 army and 24 air force personnel) are on a triangular plot, dominated by a Cross of Sacrifice
The Cross of Sacrifice is a Commonwealth war memorial designed in 1918 by Sir Reginald Blomfield for the Imperial War Graves Commission (now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission). It is present in Commonwealth war cemeteries containing 40 or ...
. Here are buried 12 personnel from World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
and 88 from 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 ...
.
History
The first recorded burial in the cemetery was four-year-old John Carr on 20 July 1868. However, recent investigations using metal detectors have located a number of undocumented graves in the pioneer section of the cemetery which may date back to the 1840s.Current use
The cemetery is closed to new burials, but burials can take place in existing family graves. Cremated remains can be placed in thecolumbarium
A columbarium (; pl. columbaria) is a structure for the reverential and usually public storage of funerary urns, holding cremated remains of the deceased.
The term can also mean the nesting boxes of pigeons. The term comes from the Latin "''colu ...
wall or placed in family graves.
Notable people buried
* The Babies of Walloon (Bridget Kate and Mary Jane Broderick)See also
* Burials at Ipswich General CemeteryGallery
References
External links
*Monumental inscriptions and photos
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