IPSWICH GENERAL CEMETERY
Queensland
Australia
GPS Coordinates Latitude: -27.63041 Longitude: 152.75972
Location Information
Ipswich is a town some 40 kilometres from Brisbane. The General Cemetery stands on the corner of Cemetery Road and Warwick Road, and is 2 kilometres south of Ipswich Post Office. Just inside the entrance is a triangular plot delineated on two sides by shrubs and roses, contaning service war graves. A Cross of Sacrifice has been erected and the graves, marked by white marble headstones, lies in closely mown grass. The graves of 64 soldiers and 24 airmen belonging to the Australian forces can be found in this cemetery.
Historical Information
Ipswich General Cemetery contains 12 casualties of the First World War and 88 casualties of the Second World War.
Picture below kindly supplied by Don Dennes, Project Officer, Office of Australian War Graves
Ipswich is a town some 40 kilometres from Brisbane. The General Cemetery stands on the corner of Cemetery Road and Warwick Road, and is 2 kilometres south of Ipswich Post Office. Just inside the entrance is a triangular plot delineated on two sides by shrubs and roses, contaning service war graves. A Cross of Sacrifice has been erected and the graves, marked by white marble headstones, lies in closely mown grass. The graves of 64 soldiers and 24 airmen belonging to the Australian forces can be found in this cemetery.
Historical Information
Ipswich General Cemetery contains 12 casualties of the First World War and 88 casualties of the Second World War.
Picture below kindly supplied by Don Dennes, Project Officer, Office of Australian War Graves
GROUP PORTRAIT OF MEMBERS OF 26A RAAF PILOT'S COURSE AT NO 21 SQUADRON, LAVERTON.
Identified in the back row, 6th from the left is 558 Flying Officer Patrick Adair Black, (Royal Australian Air Force) who was accidentally killed at Amberly, Queensland on 12th February 1941, aged 23. C of E Plot, Section A. A8661. Son of Arthur Laughton Black and Beatrice Agnes Black; husband of Vida Joy Black, of Melbourne, Victoria.
Informal group portrait of 400213 Squadron Leader K. W. (Bluey) Truscott DFC, Commanding Officer (CO) of No. 76 (Kittyhawk) Squadron RAAF with pilots of his Squadron aboard his jeep.
Identified 4th from the left is 403472 Flight Lieutenant Francis Walker Grosvenor (Royal Australian Air Force) who was killed in an accident at Ipswich, Queensland on 11th August 1944, aged 22. Row F. 6. Son of Cowley and Jeannie Metcalfe Grosvenor, of Manly, New South Wales.
NX19261 Corporal
Donald John McClelland
A. I. F. H. Q. Signals, First Army, Australian Corps of Signals
2nd July 1943, aged 27.
Row D. 12.
Son of John Cumming McClelland and Ethel A. D. McClelland, of West Tamworth, New South Wales.
Informal portrait of NX19261 Signalman Donald John McLelland, 1 Australian Corps of Signals. Sig McClelland enllisted on 31 May 1940. With the rank of Acting Corporal and serving in Australia with Headquarters 1 Australian Army Signals, McClelland was accidentally killed on 2 July 1943, aged 27.
Donald John McClelland
A. I. F. H. Q. Signals, First Army, Australian Corps of Signals
2nd July 1943, aged 27.
Row D. 12.
Son of John Cumming McClelland and Ethel A. D. McClelland, of West Tamworth, New South Wales.
Informal portrait of NX19261 Signalman Donald John McLelland, 1 Australian Corps of Signals. Sig McClelland enllisted on 31 May 1940. With the rank of Acting Corporal and serving in Australia with Headquarters 1 Australian Army Signals, McClelland was accidentally killed on 2 July 1943, aged 27.
