Geelong Eastern Cemetery

Cemetery in Victoria, Australia

38°09′48″S 144°22′57″E / 38.1632°S 144.3824°E / -38.1632; 144.3824No. of interments>70,000WebsiteGeelong Eastern CemeteryFind a GraveGeelong Eastern CemeteryFootnotesGeelong Eastern Cemetery – Billion Graves

Geelong Eastern Cemetery is a cemetery located in the city of Geelong, Victoria in Australia. The cemetery dates back to 1839.

141 Ormond Road, The Eastern Cemetery Gatehouse is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.[1]

Notable interments

  • Thomas Austin, member of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria
  • Percy Ellingsen, Australian Rules footballer
  • James Harrison, engineer and politician
  • Howard Hitchcock, organised construction of the Great Ocean Road
  • Bervin Ellis Purnell, Mayor of Geelong
  • Bransby Cooper, Cricketer – Played in the first ever Test Match
  • Anne Drysdale, from whom Drysdale, Victoria, is named
  • Caroline Elizabeth Newcomb, woman pioneer squatter, partner of Anne Drysdale
  • Catherine McDonald née Potaskie, first European born in Tasmania
  • Robert Beauchamp, Australasian Mission President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and one of the earliest LDS missionaries to New Zealand

War graves

The cemetery contains the war graves of 45 Commonwealth service personnel. There are 9 from World War I and 36 from World War II.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Eastern Cemetery Gatehouse (H1170)". Victorian Heritage Register. Heritage Victoria. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  2. ^ Geelong Eastern Cemetery CWGC Cemetery Report.
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