| Newcastle (Sandgate) War Cemetery |
| New South Wales, Australia |
Photo kindly supplied by Don Dennes, Project Officer, Office of Australian War Graves
| Located within the Sandgate General
Cemetery on the Pacific highway and has 73 burials. Included in the burials
are four men of the Royal Navy. The front entrance of the cemetery is
through a wrought iron gate set in a low stone wall constructed of a local
stone. The city of Newcastle was a strategic military site both as a centre
for heavy industry and as a busy seaport. On the 8th of June 1942 Newcastle
came under attack from a Japanese submarine. The area was also a major
staging area for AIF Divisions and supported some of the largest
concentrations of troops in Australia throughout the war. The Australian
Second Army including the 1st, 9th and 28th Brigades and the 3rd Army Tank
Brigade were based on the outskirts of Newcastle, the 4th Armoured Brigade
in Singleton and three Artillery Training Regiments at Greta.
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