St Kilda Cemetery is located in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda East, Victoria .
History
St Kilda Cemetery covers a large block bordered by Dandenong Road, Hotham Street, Alma Road and Alexandra Street. It is bounded by a historic wall and contains many Victorian era graves. The cemetery is the resting place of Alfred Deakin, the second Prime Minister of Australia, five Premiers of Victoria, and Albert Jacka VC , MC, barrister and Mayor of St Kilda (1930).
Notable interments
The grave of Albert Jacka in St Kilda cemetery. David Andrade , anarchistTilly Aston , founder of the Melbourne Braille LibraryHarold Breen , senior public servantNorman Brookes , tennis playerArchibald Campbell , ornithologistAlfred Deakin , Prime MinisterMichael Gudinski , PromoterMary McKenzie Finlay , WWI matronEdmund FitzGibbon , planner, civil servant, pioneer of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works Caroline Hodgson , "Madame Brussels"Jessica Jacobs , actressAlbert Jacka VC, soldier and councillorJames Lorimer , shipping magnate, politicianChristina Macpherson , composerFerdinand von Mueller , botanistWilliam Pitt , architectPremiers of Victoria
Hugh Ramsay , artistRobert Rede , Eureka Uprising identity, commissioner, sheriffFrederick Sargood , merchant and senatorJohn Shillinglaw , historianMonckton Synnot , squatter, merchantGyles Turner , historian
War graves
The cemetery contains the war graves of 20 Commonwealth service personnel, including 4 from World War I and 16 from World War II .[ 1]
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