Lutwyche Cemetery

Australian cemetery in Brisbane

27°24′6″S 153°1′44″E / 27.40167°S 153.02889°E / -27.40167; 153.02889TypeMonumentalOwned byBrisbane City CouncilNo. of graves≈32,000Websitehttps://graves.brisbane.qld.gov.au/Find a GraveLutwyche Cemetery

Lutwyche Cemetery is a cemetery located at Kedron, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It opened in 1878 and saw its first burial in the same year.^[1] It is located at the corner of Gympie and Kitchener Roads, approximately ten kilometres north of Brisbane.

Notable people interred

A list of people buried in Lutwyche Cemetery can be found in the Category:Burials at Lutwyche Cemetery and in the list below:

Charles Moffatt Jenkinson (1865–1954), Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly and mayor of Brisbane
Lionel Lukin (1868–1944), Supreme Court of Queensland judge
Patrick Short (1859–1941), the first Queensland-born police commissioner (1921–1925)
Billy Sing (1886–1943), World War I sniper^[2]
John Andrew Stuart (1940–1979),^[3] who along with James Richard Finch was responsible for the 1973 Whiskey Au Go Go fire that killed 15 people
George Witton (1874–1942), court martialed along with Breaker Morant and Peter Handcock for the killing of Boer prisoners
Buddy Williams (1918–1986), Australian country music pioneer

War graves

The cemetery contains war graves of nine Commonwealth service personnel of World War I and 389 of World War II, besides three servicemen of other nationalities. Within the cemetery's war graves plot stands the Queensland Cremation Memorial, erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, recording 36 Australian service personnel who died in Queensland during World War II and were cremated at Mount Thompson Crematorium.^[4]

Within the cemetery is a Cross of Sacrifice commemorating those who served in World War I and World War II, which was erected and paid for by the Imperial War Graves Commission. The stone used is Freestone (Helidon) and it was completed in 1950.^[5]^[6]

Gallery

Entry gate from Gympie Road looking west (2021).
Cemetery map (2021).
Cemetery portion close to Gympie Road, looking south-south-west (2021).
Shelter near Gympie Road entrance (2021).
Grave of George Ramsdale Witton, Boer veteran (2021).
Commonweath war grave headstones, looking north-west (2021).
Commonweath war grave headstones and the Cross of Sacrifice, looking south-east (2021).
Billy Sing monument (2021).
Looking east-north-east from Turner Road across the cemetery (2021).

References

^ Historic Cemeteries Archived 27 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine – Brisbane City Council. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
^ "Brisbane graveside ceremony for famed Gallipoli sniper". Brisbane Times. Archived from the original on 4 October 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
^ Stuart, John Andrew Archived 24 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine — Brisbane City Council Grave Location Search. Retrieved 26 May 2012.
^ "CWGC – Cemetery Details". Archived from the original on 30 March 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2012. CWGC Cemetery Report.
^ "Lutwyche War Cemetery". Monument Australia. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 6 April 2014.
^ Unidentified (1954), Cross of Sacrifice at Lutwyche Cemetery, Brisbane, ca. 1954, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, retrieved 6 April 2014