Box Hill Cemetery
Box Hill Cemetery is a cemetery located in Box Hill, Victoria in Australia. It is known as the resting place of notable figures from Melbourne and its heritage-registered Columbarium and Myer Memorial.[1][2] The cemetery dates back to its gazettal in 1873 and has had three expansions; the first two in the Victorian era and a final enlargement in 1935.[2]
The Myer memorial was designed by British architect Edwin Lutyens in association with local architects Yuncken, Freeman, Freeman & Griffiths.[2] The columbarian, a brick building in the style of a Byzantine church was designed by architects Rodney Alsop and A. Bramwell Smith and constructed in 1929.[2]
Notable burials
- Jacobena Angliss, philanthropist
- William Angliss, businessman, politician and philanthropist
- Robert Beckett, politician
- Maurice Blackburn, politician and lawyer
- Edouard Borovansky, ballet dancer, choreographer and director
- Cyril P. Callister, inventor of Vegemite
- C.J. Dennis, poet[1]
- Joy Hester[1]
- John Higgins, businessman and metallurgist
- Frank Hyett, politician
- James Whiteside McCay, general and politician
- Ken Myer, businessman and philanthropist
- Merlyn Myer, philanthropist
- Sidney Myer, businessman and philanthropist, founder of Myer[1]
- Sir Samuel Pethebridge, politician and soldier, Secretary of Australian Department of Defence in World War I
- Harold Sleigh[1]
- George Tallis[1]
War Graves
The cemetery contains the war graves of 64 Commonwealth service personnel, 15 from World War I and 49 from World War II.[3]
References
37°49′21″S 145°8′8″E / 37.82250°S 145.13556°E
 | This Melbourne-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |