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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 status in the United Kingdom, borough in Suffolk, England. It is the county town, and largest in Suffolk, followed by Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds, and the third-largest population centre in East Anglia, ...
, Queensland
Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...
, 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 (LGA) located within the southwest of Greater Brisbane, which in turn, is situated within the vast South East region of the state of Queensland. Positioned between the City of Brisbane and the Cit ...
, 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 of Nations, 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 grave ...
. Here are buried 12 personnel from World War I
World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...
and 88 from World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
.
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), also called a cinerarium, is a structure for the reverential and usually public storage of funerary urns holding cremated remains of the dead. The term comes from the Latin ''columba'' (dove) and originally solel ...
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 Cemetery
Burial, also known as interment or inhumation, is a method of final disposition whereby a dead body is placed into the ground, sometimes with objects. This is usually accomplished by excavating a pit or trench, placing the deceased and objec ...
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References
External links
*Monumental inscriptions and photos
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