death

War memorials

Memorials are to be gazed at, but even a fleeting glimpse of any of Queensland’s war memorials suggests their extraordinary presence in the cultural landscape.

Mount Morgan Cemetery, 1893. Photograph (Richardson Collection) Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Cemetery Jericho, 1965. Slide by Richard Hopkins, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Cemetery, Ravenswood, 1968. Slides by Lynne Clancy, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Cemetery, Birdsville. Postcard, Murray Views Collection c1970-2000. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

The Cemetery, Ingham. Celtic crosses and Italian mausolea evoke memories from distant home lands. Made from grey Argyle granite or brilliant white marble, the dead could literally rest under a piece of the ‘old country’. Postcard Murray Views Collection c1970-2000, Centre for the Government of Queensland

Toowong Cemetery, 1991. The great and the good command the best views. The poor rest in the hollows. As in life, the dead were discriminated against. Slides by Ruth Read, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Graves, Normanton Cemetery, 1986. In the Gulf country many children’s graves are surrounded by the cot they died in as some mothers would not let a newborn sleep in a cot in which a previous child had died. Slides by Michael Keniger, Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Cemeteries in the landscape

The crowd cheers as points are scored, yet few spectators at the Suncorp Stadium realise that the stadium is built over some of Queensland’s earliest cemeteries.

Roadside ++++ memorials

As part of the landscape of urban, regional and rural Queensland, roadside memorials remind travelers that death by road accident is both a condition and risk of enhanced human mobility.