Karrakatta Cemetery

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Karrakatta Cemetery
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Main entrance to Karrakatta Cemetery
Details
Established 1899
Location Perth
Country Australia
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Owned by Metropolitan Cemeteries Board
Size 98.34 ha
Number of graves >201,000
Number of cremations >189,000
Website Karrakatta Cemetery
Find a Grave
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Karrakatta Cemetery grounds

Karrakatta Cemetery is a metropolitan cemetery in the suburb of Karrakatta in Perth, Western Australia. Karrakatta Cemetery first opened for burials in 1899, with Robert Creighton.[1] Managed by the Metropolitan Cemeteries Board, the cemetery attracts more than one million visitors each year.[2] Cypress trees located near the main entrance are a hallmark of Karrakatta Cemetery.[2][3] The cemetery contains a crematorium, and in 1995 Western Australia's first mausoleum opened at the site.[2]

The entrance (known as the Waiting House) includes a structure designed by George Temple Poole.[4]

Notable people

People interred at Karrakatta Cemetery include: Prime Minister John Curtin, Governor-General Sir Paul Hasluck, author Joseph Furphy, Premier Sir John Forrest and John Scaddan, Auber Octavius Neville,[5] Matthew Raymond Locke MG, Monty Miller, and William Baldwin (member of the New Zealand House of Representatives).[6] In addition, the ashes of Academy Award-winning actor Heath Ledger were scattered on his family's plot in the cemetery.[7]

There are also ten Victoria Cross recipients who are interred in Karrakatta[8]

War graves

Karrakatta Cemetery contains the graves of 106 Commonwealth service personnel of World War I and 141 of World War II, besides a Dutch naval sailor of the latter war, divided between the cemetery's various denominational plots.[9] In addition, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission has a memorial to 15 Australian service personnel - 2 sailors, 9 soldiers, 4 airmen - who died in World War II and were cremated at Karrakatta Crematorium.[10]

See also

References

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  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Karrakatta Cemetery: Rich with heritage...caring for precious memories (brochure). Government of Western Australia, Metropolitan Cemeteries Board.
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