Brisbane General Cemetery
Queensland, Australia
With graving docks capable of accommodating destroyers and fuelling facilities, Brisbane became a naval base during the 1939-1945 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 Central 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. There are now over 250, 1914-18 war and over 100, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. The great majority of the graves are in the Returned Servicemen's Plot in Portion 10.
Number of identified casualties: 379
Images courtesy of Hilda Maclean www.connectqld.org.au/fotc
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