Andersons Bay Cemetery is a major cemetery in the

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city of

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. It is located to the southeast of the city centre, on a rocky outcrop which forms the inland part of Lawyers Head, a promontory which juts into the

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. The cemetery is bounded on the western and southern sides by Chisholm Park Golf Links, and to the east by steep slopes which descend to the Tomahawk Lagoon. Despite its name, the cemetery is located in the suburb of Tahuna, which lies immediately to the south of the suburb of Andersons Bay, and almost from the former (now largely reclaimed) bay itself, at the head of the

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. The cemetery is the largest in Dunedin, and as such one of the largest in the

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. In existence by 1867, the cemetery was the city's main burial site from the early twentieth century until the 1980s, and also contains several older sets of remains which were re-interred here from other sites. Since the 1980s, the role of Dunedin's main cemetery has been split between several sites, with the Green Park Cemetery at Waldronville taking the majority of new burials. The

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, opened in 1927, is still in use. The

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(CWGC) commemorates 2

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New Zealand servicemen cremated here. The cemetery originally went by the imposing name of the ''Eastern Necropolis'', but this quickly fell out of favour to be replaced with its current, more prosaic, name. Andersons Bay Cemetery is noted for its large military memorial section, with many ex-servicemen having been buried here. Notable among them are

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recipients Duncan Gordon Boyes and Horace Robert Martineau. The latter is one of 64

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Commonwealth service personnel buried here whose graves are registered and maintained by the CWGC, who are also responsible for 54 war graves from World War II.
CWGC Cemetery Report. The cemetery is also notable for its section of restored gravestones of early Dunedin Chinese settlers.The Chinese in New Zealand
Other prominent people buried in the cemetery include architects Edmund Anscombe and Francis Petre.

Burials

* Edmund Anscombe (1874–1948), architect * Duncan Gordon Boyes (1846–1869), recipient of the

* Ella Campbell (1910–2003), botanist * James Douglas (1872–1957), plumber and

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(1921–1923) *

Bill Fraser William Simpson Fraser (5 June 1908 – 9 September 1987) was a Scottish actor who appeared on stage, screen and television for many years. In 1986 he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance for his stage role in the play '' ...

(1924–2001), politician * Jessie Hiett (1874–1962), temperance activist * Horace Martineau (1874–1916), recipient of the Victoria Cross * Jim Munro (1870–1945), politician * Francis Petre (1847–1918), architect * Harold Robinson (1919–2012), ballet dancer and choreographer * John Shacklock (1865–1935), iron founder and mayor of Dunedin (1914–1915)

Gallery

Andersons bay old.JPG, One of the oldest parts of Anderson's Bay Cemetery, Dunedin, New Zealand, showing headstones dating from the 1870s Andersons Bay Cemetery.JPG, View of Anderson's Bay Cemetery AndrewGivenheadstone.jpg, Headstone of New Zealand cricketer Andrew Given

References

External links

* {{Find a Grave cemetery Cemeteries in Dunedin 1867 establishments in New Zealand