St Kilda Cemetery is located in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda East, Victoria.
History St Kilda Cemetery covers a large block bordered by Dandenong Road, Hotham Street, Alma Road and Alexandra Street. It is bounded by a historic wall and contains many Victorian era graves. The cemetery is the resting place of Alfred Deakin, the second Prime Minister of Australia, five Premiers of Victoria, and Albert Jacka VC, MC, barrister and Mayor of St Kilda (1930).
Notable interments
David Andrade, anarchist Tilly Aston, founder of the Melbourne Braille Library Harold Breen, senior public servant Norman Brookes, tennis player Archibald Campbell, ornithologist Alfred Deakin, Prime Minister Michael Gudinski, Promoter Mary McKenzie Finlay, WWI matron Edmund FitzGibbon, planner, civil servant, pioneer of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works Caroline Hodgson, "Madame Brussels" Jessica Jacobs, actress Albert Jacka VC, soldier and councillor James Lorimer, shipping magnate, politician Christina Macpherson, composer Ferdinand von Mueller, botanist William Pitt, architect Premiers of Victoria William Haines Bryan O'Loghlen George Kerferd James Munro George Turner Hugh Ramsay, artist Robert Rede, Eureka Uprising identity, commissioner, sheriff Frederick Sargood, merchant and senator John Shillinglaw, historian Monckton Synnot, squatter, merchant Gyles Turner, historian
War graves The cemetery contains the war graves of 20 Commonwealth service personnel, including 4 from World War I and 16 from World War II.St. Kilda General Cemetery, Victoria CWGC Cemetery report.
References
External links St Kilda Cemetery (Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust) Friends of St Kilda Cemetery St Kilda Cemetery – Billion Graves