Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia

Cemetery Details

Location Railway Road, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
Co‑ordinates S31.968332, E115.796816
Description

Karrakatta Cemetery, sprawling over 98 hectares of land, is Western Australia’s largest cemetery.

This cemetery is centrally located just 7 kilometres west of Perth city centre and is easily accessible by car or train in the suburb of Karrakatta, in Perth, WA.

It was first opened for burials in 1899, with Robert Creighton.

It contains the graves of:-
- 106 Commonwealth service personnel of WW I
- 141 Commonwelath service personnel of WW II
-  besides a Dutch naval sailor of the latter war, divided between the cemetery's
   various denominational plots.

In addition, the CWGC has a memorial to 15 Australian service personnel:
- 2 sailors, 9 soldiers, 4 airmen - who died in WW II and were cremated at Karrakatta Crematorium.

There are also ten Victoria Cross recipients who are interred in Karrakatta.

There is a MEMORIAL WALL commemorating the Noongar and other Aboriginal servicemen killed in conflict and buried overseas during World Wars I and II.

The memorial wall was unveiled in January 2012 and is located in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Keeping Place at Karrakatta Cemetery.

The Keeping Place is a purpose-designed building holding the skeletal remains of Aboriginal people previously stored in museums around the State and the country.

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Names

Showing 8 people of interest from cemetery

PILLEY, Colin George

Service number 2191
Corporal
51st Infantry Battalion (WW1)
AIF WW1
Born 18 Dec 1896

HARBURN, William Roy

Service number WX11048
Major
10 Garrison Battalion (WA)
Australian Military Forces (Army WW2)
Born 28 Sep 1895

JOHNS, Frank Morrison

Service number 894
Corporal
Railway Unit (AIF)
AIF WW1
Born 30 May 1875

VAN RIJSEWIJK, Paul Richard Peter

Service number 5715180
Lance Corporal
Born 28 Nov 1946

UPSON, Leonard David

Service number 2257
Driver
4th Motor Transport Company
AIF WW1
Born 9 Nov 1897

WOODS, James Park

Service number 2344A
Private
48th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 4 Jan 1891

HARRIS, Ronald Arthur

Service number 5410968
Corporal
Born 14 Apr 1942

CLEAVER, Percy

Service number 2315
Private
16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
AIF WW1
Born 28 Apr 1889