The West Terrace Cemetery is South Australia’s oldest cemetery, first appearing on Colonel William Light’s 1837 plan of Adelaide. The 27.6 hectare site is located in the south-west corner of the Adelaide central business district, between West Terrace, Anzac Highway, Sir Donald Bradman Drive and the Noarlunga/ Belair Railway Lines. Originally known as the Adelaide Public Cemetery, it is divided into a number of sections for various communities and faiths, including two Catholic areas, as well as Jewish, Afghan, Islamic and Quaker sections. In 1920, the Kendrew Oval and Light Oval sections were opened and are reserved for AIF veterans who have died since the end of the First World War.

In 1902, the first crematorium in the southern hemisphere was build and began operating in 1903. For the next twenty years, this was the only crematorium in Australia. A number of famous and important South Australian's have been buried in the cemetery and since 2002, the site has been administered by the Adelaide Cemeteries Authority, which also controls a number of other cemeteries within the metropolitan area.

[edit] Notable interments or cremations

• Arthur Seaforth Blackburn, military officer and Victoria Cross recipient from the First World War
• Abraham Tobias Boas, long serving Rabbi of Adelaide’s Jewish congregation
• Charles Chewings, geologist and anthropologist
• Philip Davey, Victoria Cross recipient from the First World War
• Boyle Travers Finniss, settler, soldier, surveyor and South Australia's first colonial Premier
• Thomas Gilbert, early pioneer and the colony’s first Post Master General
• Percy Grainger, international musician and composer
• Reginald Roy Inwood, Victoria Cross recipient from the First World War
• Jorgen Christian Jensen, Danish-born Victoria Cross recipient from the First World War
• Charles Kingston, a Premier of South Australia and a founding member of Australian Federation
• Carl Linger, musician and composer of "Song of Australia"
• John McPherson, first leader of the South Australian division of the Australian Labor Party
• Frederick "Fred" Metters, founding partner of metal goods manufacturer, Metters Limited
• Augusta Zadow, female suffragette and early trade unionist
• The unknown victim of the mysterious Taman Shud Case

[edit] External links

• Official West Terrace Cemetery site
• Information and photos of historic graves

Coordinates: 34°56′4″S 138°35′6″E / 34.93444°S 138.585°E / -34.93444; 138.585

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