| Brisbane (Lutwyche) Cemetery |
| Queensland, Australia |
Photo kindly supplied by Don Dennes, Project Officer, Office of Australian War Graves
| With graving docks capable of
accommodating destroyers and fuelling facilities, Brisbane became a naval
base during the Second World War. Upon the entry of Japan into the war fixed
defences were provided and manned, and American detachments arrived and
established themselves there. Allied Air Forces headquarters, a general
intelligence unit and the headquarters of the G.O.C. in Chief Australian
Military Forces were in Brisbane; and in July 1942 the American Supreme
Commander of the Allied Forces, South-West Pacific Area moved his
Headquarters from Melbourne to Brisbane to be nearer the scene of the
operations in Papua and New Guinea. BRISBANE (LUTWYCHE) CEMETERY contains
386 Second World War burials. There are also nine burials of the First World
War and three war graves of other nationalities. The war graves plot also
contains the QUEENSLAND CREMATION MEMORIAL which commemorates 36 members of
the Australian Forces who died in Queensland during the Second World War and
whose remains were cremated.
No. of Identified Casualties: 397 |
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