Box Hill Cemetery
| Box Hill Cemetery | |
|---|---|
 Columbarium | |
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| Details | |
| Established | 1873 |
| Location | |
| Country | Australia |
| Coordinates | 37°49′21″S 145°8′8″E / 37.82250°S 145.13556°E |
| Website | |
| Find a Grave | Box Hill Cemetery at Find a Grave |
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]
Architecture
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, artist[1]
- John Higgins, businessman and metallurgist
- Frank Hyett, politician
- James Whiteside McCay, general and politician
- Ken Myer, businessman and philanthropist
- Dame Merlyn Myer, philanthropist
- Sidney Myer, businessman and philanthropist, founder of Myer[1]
- Frank O'Connor, Secretary of the Department of Supply in the 1950s
- Sir Samuel Pethebridge, politician and soldier, Secretary of Australian Department of Defence in World War I[3]
- Harold Crofton Sleigh, merchant and ship-owner[1]
- Jane Sutherland, artist[4]
- Sir George Tallis, theatrical entrepreneur[1]
War Graves
The cemetery contains the war graves of 64 Commonwealth service personnel. There are 15 from World War I, highest ranking being Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Pethebridge, who died in January 1918,[3] and 49 from World War II.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Box Hill Cemetery". National Trust of Victoria. Retrieved 2010-04-02.
- ^ a b c d "Box Hill Cemetery Columbarian and Myer Memorial". Victorian Heritage Database. Retrieved 2010-04-02.
- ^ a b [1] CWGC Casualty Record.
- ^ Lindsay, Frances (1990). "Sutherland, Jane (1853–1928)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
- ^ BOX HILL GENERAL CEMETERY CWGC Cemetery Report.
External links
- Box Hill Cemetery - Billion Graves
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