Geelong Eastern Cemetery, Victoria

Cemetery Details

Location 141 Ormond Road, Geelong, Greater Geelong - Victoria, Australia
Co‑ordinates S38.16364, E144.38011
Description

The first recorded burial was that of Hugh Niven on the 23rd September 1839.

Sections of the cemetery were originally administered by the main denominational churches, each with their own Sexton and gravediggers. In 1877, a General Trust was formed and in 1907 the Roman Catholic and Jewish sections also joined.

Many of the town’s original pioneers who settled the Western District are buried at the cemetery – Thomson, Chirnside, Armytage, Austin, Ormond, Fyans, Harrison – to name but a few.

As Geelong’s port attracted many during the gold rushes, immigrants from all parts of the world arrived and headstones reflect the various countries from which they had sailed.

The Eastern Cemetery (along with the Mt. Moriac cemetery) were the only ones to have consecrated ground for Catholic burials and therefore most Catholic burials, even from the outlying areas of Geelong, were performed at these cemeteries.

For more information, see the link to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission page.

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Names

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HOPE, Rowland Wallace

Service number V352001
Lieutenant Colonel
Born 2 Jan 1896

SMITH, Robert

Service number OFFICER
Brigadier General
5th Infantry Brigade Headquarters
AIF WW1
Born 6 Sep 1881

ELLIOTT, Clarence Simpson

Service number 1353
Private
2nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 23 Aug 1891

BARNES, James Walter

Service number 2043A
Private
39th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1898

SEACH, George Dudley

Service number 1966
Private
5th Machine Gun Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 29 Aug 1891

BUTCHER, Herbert George

Service number V375606
Farrier Sergeant
14th Field Artillery Brigade
AIF WW1
Born 6 Oct 1893

BARFOOT, Leonard Roy

Service number V352021
Lance Corporal
Born 2 Jul 1899

KITCHEN, John Edward

Service number 419852
Flying Officer
Central Flying School
Royal Australian Air Force
Born 14 Mar 1917

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