graves

The Graves at Mill Point

Alf Watt is in his grave

These eighty years.

From his bones a bloodwood grows

With long leaves like tears.

His girl grew weary long ago;

She’s

Location

Mill Point, QLD

Australia

26° 3' 45.198" S, 151° 6' 29.4336" E

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1 January 1956

2 December 2010

The Bulletin

Mill Point, QLD

Australia

26° 3' 45.198" S, 151° 6' 29.4336" E

See map: Google Maps

Australian poet Judith Wright visited the Mill Point cemetery and wrote a poem about life as she imagined it at the settlement during the late 1800s. The poem was written about the life of a man from the settlement known as Alfred Watt. In fact, Alfred was one of the first infants to be buried at the cemetery in 1874 at the tender age of four months and 20 days.

Centaur poster, c1943

Centaur poster, c1943. 'Work, save, fight and so avenge the nurses!', poster by unknown artist. Collection of the Australian War Memorial

Location

Australia

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SS Yongala, c1906. Postcard Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image API-079-0001-0001

Shipwrecks as graves

Despite its beauty the Queensland coast is renowned as a dangerous place for shipping, with hundreds of vessels coming to grief on coral reefs and rocky shores over the last 200 years.

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

Thursday Island Cemetery, 2009. Many Japanese headstones are reminders of the pearling industry. Digital images, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland