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Graveside Information Signs

There are 52 information signs beside memorials and graves of notable people remembered in Toowong Cemetery.

The table below lists people described in the information signs, their location, and any known damage.

Use the Toowong Cemetery map to help locate the information signs.

Sign Title Location Damage
War Memorial Canon Garland Place
Edward McGregor 4-16-17/18
Caskey Memorial 4-17-18
'A' Battery Memorial 4-36-1
Ann and Walter Hill 6-21-9
Anne Devoy 7-7-34
John Burke 7-19-1
Peter Gaffney 7-19-23 Sign missing, Post in place. Potential wording for replacement sign
Randal MacDonnell 7-20-10
Joseph Darragh 7-27-11
James Thomas Mooney 7-45-10
William Grene Power 7-45-18
Thomas Joseph Byrnes 7-47-5
Andrew Purcell 7-50-1 Sign missing, Post in place. Potential wording for replacement sign
John Ahern 7-51-4
William Augustine O'Carroll 7-54-9 Sign missing, Post in place. Potential wording for replacement sign
John McDermott 7-56-3 Sign missing, Post in place. Potential wording for replacement sign
Kevin Izod O'Doherty 7-58-27
Thomas Joseph Ryan 7A-3A-1
John Leahy 7A-4-3
John Melville 9-10-14 post removed from ground
Mary Douglas 9-34-5
Robert Cribb 9-37-6 post removed from ground
George Prentice 9-41-4 Sign unreadable, Post in place. Potential wording for replacement sign
Florence Griffiths Buchanan 11-33-4
Sir Samuel Walker Griffith 12-11-6/7
Sir Charles Lilley 12-15-15
Elizabeth Jane Kingsbury 12-42-12/13
John Donaldson 12-47-13
Thomas Macdonald-Paterson 12-53-10
Infant Graves 13-3-12 Sign unreadable, Post in place.
Petrie Family 13-5-3
Thomas Welsby 13-9-1
Pioneer Children 13-10-4
Charles Patterson 13-30-10
George Rilatt 13-33-12
Bancroft Family 13-35-3
Sir Arthur Rutledge 13-49-15 post removed from ground
Robert Russell Smellie 13-60-5/10
James William Wassell 13-65-10 Sign unreadable, Post in place. Potential wording for replacement sign
Trooper John Cobb 13-68-16
John Turner 13-70-8
Carl Adolf Feilberg 13-71-15 Sign missing, Post in place. Potential wording for replacement sign
Raff Bothers 13-79-1/2
Finney and Isles 13-81-5/6 post damaged but still in place.
Kenneth Hutchison 13-82-6 Sign missing, Post in place. Draft replacement sign. Hi-res photo.
Dorothy Hawthorn 13-83-1/2 post removed from ground
Sir Maurice O'Connell 13-83-9/10
Bell Family 13-84-8/9
Sir Arthur Palmer 13-88-7
Governor Blackall Mount Blackall
Sir Anthony Musgrave 14-23-7/15

Volunteer - report a damaged sign

Unfortunately signs are often vandalised in the cemetery. Contact us if you find a damaged sign.

Layout

The signs are 25cm high by 35cm wide and are printed on 2mm Stainless Steel.

  • The Friends of Toowong Cemetery logo is in the bottom left corner.
  • The grave location is in the bottom right corner.
  • An image, if available, is on the right of the text and masked in an oval.
  • The right edge of the text should follow the curve of the oval image.
  • The rounded rectangle border is inset ~10mm from the edge of the sign.

Example Information Sign with image

Example Information Sign

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The Toowong Cemetery Graveside Information Signs by Friends of Toowong Cemetery Association Inc., is licensed under CC BY 4.0. You must provide attribution if you reuse this work.

Download the Toowong Cemetery Graveside Information Signs as a Comma Separated Value file (.csv)

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Excel interprets some grave locations as dates

If you open the .csv file using Microsoft Excel, be aware that it changes some grave locations into dates. This behaviour cannot be prevented. We suggest you consider using another tool.