Bromley Cemetery is a cemetery in

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, New Zealand. It occupies approximately 10 hectares to the east of the city centre, on the corner of Keighleys Road and Linwood Avenue. The

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maintains and administers the cemetery.

History

The Christchurch City Council searched for additional cemetery land beginning in 1913, and opened Bromley Cemetery for burials in July 1918. Later that year the cemetery became the main burial place for fatalities of the

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from the eastern side of the city. The cemetery has two rows of

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(RSA) interments, and the

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(CWGC) has records of 109 burials at Bromley, 15 from

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and 94 from

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. In addition, the CWGC commemorates 33 Commonwealth service personnel cremated at Bromley Crematorium during World War II. On the eve of

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2008, over 160 headstones of veterans were painted over for maintenance to improve the inscriptions, which received criticism from visitors and the RSA due to the timing. The cemetery is full and only accepts burials to existing plots or ash interments.

Notable burials

* John Beanland (1866–1943), 36th Mayor of Christchurch * Annette Clifford (1881–1968), Christchurch property owner and landlord * H. H. Clifford (1872–1949), photographer *

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(1868–1939), Labour Party MP *

Mabel Howard Mabel Bowden Howard (18 April 1894 – 23 June 1972) was a well-known New Zealand trade unionist and politician. She was the first woman secretary of a predominantly male union (the Canterbury General Labourers' Union). She was a Member of Parl ...

(1894–1972), Labour Party MP *

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(1859–1922), member of parliament and 24th Mayor of Christchurch * William Trethewey (1892–1956), sculptor and monumental mason

References

External links

*
Bromley Cemetery
on the

website
Christchurch City Council Cemeteries Database
Cemeteries in Christchurch Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in New Zealand {{CanterburyNZ-geo-stub