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We saw a quaint little cemetery in front of a church in Gingin. There was no grass growing around the graves probably because of the tall trees.  Someone had placed a branch of bright yellow flowers on this grave.
St Luke's Anglican Church cemetery at Gingin, Western Australia.

Photographed January 2012 - © Lesley Bray Photography - All Rights Reserved.

    6/366 We saw a quaint little cemetery in front of a church in Gingin. There was no grass growing around the graves probably because of the tall trees. Someone had placed a branch of bright yellow flowers on this grave. St Luke's Anglican Church cemetery at Gingin, Western Australia. Photographed January 2012 - © Lesley Bray Photography - All Rights Reserved.

  • Rocky Creek War Memorial Park

    Rocky Creek War Memorial Park

    Rocky Creek was the site of the largest military hospital in the Southern Hemisphere - a 3000 bed hospital which treated over 60,000 patients from 1943 to 1945. War Memorial Park at Rocky Creek, near Tolga on the Atherton Tableland, North Queensland, Australia. Photographed July 2010 - © 2010 Lesley Bray Photography - All Rights Reserved. Do not remove my signature from this image. Sharing only with credit please.

  • We came across this roadside memorial to a young woman amongst the Mulga trees near the Ward River west of Charleville, western Queensland.  This is the largest memorial I have seen honouring one person beside a road.  RIP Toni

Photographed August 2010 - © 2010 Lesley Bray Photography - All Rights Reserved.

    We came across this roadside memorial to a young woman amongst the Mulga trees near the Ward River west of Charleville, western Queensland. This is the largest memorial I have seen honouring one person beside a road. RIP Toni Photographed August 2010 - © 2010 Lesley Bray Photography - All Rights Reserved.

  • Mapoon Mission Station

    Mapoon Mission Station

    Cairn between Cullen Point and Mapoon depicting where the Mapoon Mission Station used to stand, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. Photographed June 2010 - © 2010 Lesley Bray Photography - All Rights Reserved. Do not remove my signature from this image. Sharing only with credit please.

  • You cannot see this little cemetery from the Birdsville Track, it is concealed by a sanddune at Mungerannie and I suspect it is the Crombie Family Cemetery.

05 September 2010

    You cannot see this little cemetery from the Birdsville Track, it is concealed by a sanddune at Mungerannie and I suspect it is the Crombie Family Cemetery. 05 September 2010

  • Right next to the beach under a huge Moreton Bay Fig Tree in Tom Jeffery Memorial Park lies Racheal Clowes at Agnes Water, Queensland, Australia.  The Clowes were pioneers in this area.

Wouldn't it be lovely if we could all lie at rest in this beautiful location.

Photographed August 2010 - © Lesley Bray Photography

    Right next to the beach under a huge Moreton Bay Fig Tree in Tom Jeffery Memorial Park lies Racheal Clowes at Agnes Water, Queensland, Australia. The Clowes were pioneers in this area. Wouldn't it be lovely if we could all lie at rest in this beautiful location. Photographed August 2010 - © Lesley Bray Photography

  • Interesting information about the air raid can be found here http://www.awm.gov.au/alliesinadversity/japanese/broome.asp

    Interesting information about the air raid can be found here http://www.awm.gov.au/alliesinadversity/japanese/broome.asp

  • Although Broome Pioneer Cemetery was not gazetted until 1890, there are headstones marked before that date.

    Although Broome Pioneer Cemetery was not gazetted until 1890, there are headstones marked before that date.

  • Grave of Master Pearler, Captain Harry Talboys

    Grave of Master Pearler, Captain Harry Talboys

  • Grave of Master Pearler, Captain Ansell Clement Gregory

    Grave of Master Pearler, Captain Ansell Clement Gregory

  • The Japanese Cemetery at Broome (which is the largest Japanese cemetery in Australia) dates back to the very early pearling days and bears witness to the close ties Japan established with Broome in the early twentieth century. The first recorded interment in this cemetery is 1896. Literally hundreds of young Japanese divers died either from the bends (divers paralysis) or from drowning. A large stone obelisk in the cemetery recalls those who were drowned at sea in the 1908 cyclone. The cyclones of 1887 and 1935 each caused the deaths of at least 140 men. 
To give some idea of the scale of deaths resulting from the bends it is worth noting that the cemetery has the graves of 33 men who died of divers paralysis in 1914. There are 707 graves (919 people) with most of them having unusual headstones of coloured beach rocks.

    The Japanese Cemetery at Broome (which is the largest Japanese cemetery in Australia) dates back to the very early pearling days and bears witness to the close ties Japan established with Broome in the early twentieth century. The first recorded interment in this cemetery is 1896. Literally hundreds of young Japanese divers died either from the bends (divers paralysis) or from drowning. A large stone obelisk in the cemetery recalls those who were drowned at sea in the 1908 cyclone. The cyclones of 1887 and 1935 each caused the deaths of at least 140 men. To give some idea of the scale of deaths resulting from the bends it is worth noting that the cemetery has the graves of 33 men who died of divers paralysis in 1914. There are 707 graves (919 people) with most of them having unusual headstones of coloured beach rocks.

  • One of the graves in the Japanese Cemetery.

    One of the graves in the Japanese Cemetery.

  • Part of the Broome Cemetery - a lot of aboriginals buried in this section - some very colourfully decorated with flowers.

    Part of the Broome Cemetery - a lot of aboriginals buried in this section - some very colourfully decorated with flowers.

  • Broome Chinese Cemetery

    Broome Chinese Cemetery

    Grave in the Chinese Cemetery at Broome. Each year, Broome’s Chinese families make the trip to the cemetery to pay their respects to their ancestors. Honouring one’s ancestors is a very important part of Chinese culture and on the Chinese lunar calendar there are several special events during which these duties are performed. This generally involves visiting, sweeping and cleaning the ancestors’ graves, then offering gifts and burning incense. One of the community’s most important commemorative days, is known variously as Han Sun, Hang Seng, Chun Yeung or Hung Ting – depending on your family’s local dialect. After cleaning the gravesites, food will be offered to the “hungry ghosts” who are let out of heaven at the seventh moon (around August). Just because they’re spirits doesn’t mean they need a light meal – Han Sun is a veritable feast! Not only does the food have to be plentiful to appease the good and bad spirits, it’s also enjoyed by surviving descendants at a giant picnic that’s held right here among the headstones! The food is then giant pots or big trays covered with aluminium foil. Tables, chairs and cool drinks are loaded onto a trailer and the pig’s head is placed on a platter, with oranges and whole eggs and special white flowers. It will be offered to the Dai Bak Gong, or earth god, whose silver headstone is the gateway to the cemetery.

  • Japanese Pearl Divers Grave

    Japanese Pearl Divers Grave

    Japanese Pearl divers grave on the foreshore of Somerset Beach. These graves are close to the Jardine Family Cemetery. Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. Photographed June 2010 - © 2010 Lesley Bray Photography - All Rights Reserved. Do not remove my signature from this image. Sharing only with credit please.

  • 'Toots' Memorial

    'Toots' Memorial

    Memorial for 'Toots', Thora Holzheimer, at Archer River, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. Photographed July 2010 - © 2010 Lesley Bray Photography - All Rights Reserved. Do not remove my signature from this image. Sharing only with credit please.

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    Part of the Broome Cemetery - a lot of aboriginals buried in this section - some very colourfully decorated with flowers.
    Broome Chinese Cemetery
    Japanese Pearl Divers Grave