PMG Roll of honour

In Martin Place in the old Post Master General's building is this Roll of Honour. One page at a time showing a name of a solider killed in World War 1.

John Gilbert Bushranger Grave

A sign above his grave.

Bushranger Grave

The grave of John Gilbert near Harden.

The Quarantine cemetery

A bit of a bush walk but worth it. Some moving stories.

North head military grave

This graveyard overlooks Sydney Harbour and has some graves of returned soldiers and others from the quarantine station nearby.

Granville Train Disaster

Australia's worst rail disaster occurred here in 1977. It is commemorated as the Day of the Roses. "The Granville rail disaster occurred on 18 January 1977 at Granville, a suburb in western Sydney, Australia, when a crowded commuter train derailed, running into the supports of a road bridge that collapsed onto two of the train's passenger carriages. It was the worst rail disaster in Australian history: 83 people died, more than 210 were injured, and 1,300 were affected." wiki

The Cenotaph Martin Place

A tribute to a soldier left at the Cenotaph. Remembrance Day 2012.

Flowers on the grave

Some local flora at Barrenjoey Headland.

Barrenjoey Lighthouse Grave

Up at Barrenjoey Lighthouse is this lonely grave of the first lighthouse keeper George Mulhall - his grave said he was struck by lightning but on another plaque it says he died of natural causes. This is the most northern most point in Sydney. Literally the end of the road. It is a hard 30 minute walk up, but the views are spectacular.

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Dernacourt Diorama

A diorama inside the War Memorial in Canberra, showing the diggers amongst a cemetery on the Somme in WW1. These dioramas have been a feature of the memorial since it opened. They were a way to give some impression as to the lie of the land.



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Gunnedah graves.

St Mary's College Gunnedah. Founded 1879 by the Sisters of Mercy.


What a way to start your school day. At this school in country New South Wales, about 6 hours drive from Sydney, the pupils walk past a cemetery to start their day. All the nuns who taught here are buried out front.



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P.S Gunnedah is booming, motels all full, Sydney house prices, Chinese coal company in town.

World Trade Center New York

I haven't visited the new memorial but here is a reminder in Battery Park of that tragic event on 11 September 2001.

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Abraham Lincoln's Grave

He is not buried here but in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois. This is in Washington DC. Many people look at the back of Lincoln’s head, believing they will see an image of Robert E. Lee looking back towards Arlington. Myth.

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John F Kennedy Grave

At the foot of the old Lee mansion Arlington are the graves of John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1917 – 1963 and his wife Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis 1929 – 1994. JFK grave is lit with an eternal flame and he is one of only two presidents to be buried in Arlington.
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Pozieres War Graves France

In the words of Australian official historian Charles Bean, Pozieres "is more densely sown with Australian sacrifice than any other place on earth."

This cemetery contain thousands of Australian war dead but there is no name of any Australian soldier buried here. The Australian soldiers who fell here are commemorated on the National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux a few kilometres away.

It is a walled enclosure set amongst the rolling fields of northern France not far from the city of Amiens.


This grave only identified by rank.



On 23 July 1916 the 1st Division of the Australian Imperial Forces captured Pozieres Village. The division clung to its gains despite almost continuous artillery fire and repeated German counter-attacks. By the time it was relieved on 27 July it had suffered 5,285 casualties.

The 2nd Division took over from the 1st and mounted two further attacks. They were relieved on 6 August, having suffered 6,848 casualties.

The POZIERES MEMORIAL:

The memorial encloses POZIERES BRITISH CEMETERY of which contains original burials of 1916, 1917 and 1918, carried out by fighting units and field ambulances.

There are now 2,758 Commonwealth servicemen buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 1,380 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 23 casualties known or believed to be buried among them. There is also 1 German soldier buried here.

The cemetery and memorial were designed by W.H. Cowlishaw, with sculpture by Laurence A. Turner. The memorial was unveiled by Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien on 4 August 1930.

From the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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Napoleon's Grave

Originally a home and hospital for aged and unwell soldiers, the name is a shortened form of hôpital des invalides. Under the golden dome of Les Invalides is the tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte. Initiated in 1670 by King Louis XIV, the building retained its primary function of a retirement home and hospital for military veterans until the early twentieth century.



Napoleon was initially interred on Saint Helena, but King Louis-Philippe arranged for his remains to be brought to France in 1840. Napoleon's ashes were first buried in the Chapelle Saint-Jérôme in the Invalides until his final resting place was finished in 1861.

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John Lennon's Grave

John Lennon has no known grave. After he was cremated at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York, his ashes were kept by Yoko Ono. Some believe his ashes were scattered in Strawberry Fields, a place dedicated to him in New York's Central Park. It is just across the road from the Dakota building where he was shot by Mark Chapman on 8 December 1980.


Strawberry Fields named after one of his songs, "Strawberry Fields Forever." It was designed by landscape architect Bruce Kelly.

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A simple grave

In Arlington, Virginia.


On June 8, 1968, Robert Kennedy was buried alongside his brother. Because of a delay, the funeral service had to be postponed until late at night, so 1500 candles were distributed to the mourners. This is the only time a funeral service has taken place at night at Arlington National Cemetery.

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Original Sydney Burial Site

The first burials of Europeans after 1788 in Sydney took place near the shore presumably near the hospital in George Street. It is only conjecture but Ruth Park makes a good case for the area shown in the photo.

Looking from Campbell’s Cove.
“Pause a moment and look towards the west. Somewhere here, between Metcalfe Bond and Gloucester Walk is the probable site of Sydney’s first graveyard. This place at the Rocks in all likelihood was Sydney’s first graveyard, where some of the sick of the First Fleet, for whose care Captain Phillip hurried up his portable canvas hospital, found their lonely resting place. Others say that the first dead were buried up close to the ridge, where Harrington Street now is, but it seems unlikely that graves were dug in so rocky and so precipitous a place. Here, in a patch of sandy earth, in this bay so like hundreds of others still around Sydney, a cranny of glistening cutty-grass and sparkling sea, a bay convenient to the hospital and yet some distance from the marine and convict camps - here they surely laid the forty-one exiles, including ten children , who died in the settlement’s first five months.”
Ruth Park


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Mona Vale Cemetery 2

This small plaque was attached to a rock on the edge of the cemetery. Some cicada shells attached.

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