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    Karrakatta Cemetery is a metropolitan cemetery in the suburb of Karrakatta in Perth, Western Australia. Karrakatta Cemetery first opened for burials in...
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    pleaded guilty to the five non-murder charges (at Huntingdale and at Karrakatta Cemetery). Before the trial, the prosecution applied for Edwards to be tried...
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  • Arthur Abbott (category Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery)
    Arthur Valentine Rutherford Abbott (14 February 1892 – 10 October 1975) was an Australian lawyer and politician who was a member of the Legislative Assembly...
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    Edith Cowan (category Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery)
    West Perth and Cottesloe. In 1894, Cowan was one of the founders of the Karrakatta Club, the first women's social club in Australia. She became prominent...
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    Karrakatta is composed of two distinct areas, due to the Fremantle railway line passing through the suburb. On the south side is Karrakatta Cemetery,...
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    John Curtin (category Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery)
    lying in state, he was buried at Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth; the service was attended by over 30,000 at the cemetery, with many more lining the streets...
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    Martin O'Meara (category Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery)
    in December 1935 at the age of 50 years. His body was buried in Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth, Western Australia. O'Meara's Victoria Cross is held in the...
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    Walter James (Australian politician) (category Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery)
    of Doctor of Laws. He died on 3 January 1943, and was buried at Karrakatta Cemetery. 1904 East Perth state by-election "SURVIVOR OF A FAMOUS TEAM". The...
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    A. O. Neville (category Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery)
    survived by his wife and two of his children. He was buried in Karrakatta Cemetery. In the late twentieth century, Australian policies came under examination...
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    Thomas Axford (category Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery)
    Association reunion. Survived by his five children, he was cremated at the Karrakatta Crematorium in Perth. His wife predeceased him earlier in 1983. Axford's...
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    but failed to be elected. Colebatch died in 1953 and was buried in Karrakatta Cemetery. Colebatch was born on 29 March 1872 in the village of Underley near...
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    Paul Hasluck (category Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery)
    and political affairs until his death in 1993. He was buried at Karrakatta Cemetery. Historians of the period are certain that, if Hasluck had still...
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    Pietro Porcelli (category Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery)
    West Leederville and Moora, and numerous headstones in Karrakatta and Fremantle Cemeteries, including that of Sir John Forrest in 1918. After a period...
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    Frank Hann (category Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery)
    retired to Perth, where he died in 1921. Hann was buried in the Karrakatta cemetery in Perth, and in October 1986 a memorial plaque was added to the...
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  • Shirley Finn (category Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery)
    by firearm Body discovered Royal Perth Golf Club. Resting place Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth Nationality Australian Occupation(s) Brothel keeper, nightclub...
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    Dorothy Tangney (category Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery)
    3 June 1985, aged 78, and was buried in the Catholic section of Karrakatta Cemetery. In 1974 the federal electoral division of Tangney in Western Australia...
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    James Mitchell (Australian politician) (category Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery)
    southwest of the state. He was granted a state funeral and buried at Karrakatta Cemetery. The Mitchell Freeway was named in his honour, as was Sir James Mitchell...
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    John Forrest (category Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery)
    interred at the military cemetery in Freetown. His body was brought back to Western Australia and buried at Karrakatta Cemetery on 7 May 1919. His death...
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  • Iwan Iwanoff (category Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery)
    Iwanoff died in Perth on 7 October 1986. His body was buried in Karrakatta Cemetery. An exhibition of most of his works was presented at the State Archives...
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    James Park Woods (category Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery)
    General Hospital, Hollywood, in Nedlands, aged 77, and was buried in Karrakatta Cemetery. He was survived by his wife and six children. A ward at the Repatriation...
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    Alexander Forrest (category Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery)
    killed the month before in the Second Boer War), and was buried at Karrakatta Cemetery. G. C. Bolton (1981). "Forrest, Alexander (1849–1901)". Australian...
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  • John Connelly (prospector) (category Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery)
    in New Guinea and New Zealand. He died in 1928, and is buried in Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth, Western Australia. Connelly was also an active collector...
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    cremated. A memorial plaque is located at Karrakatta Cemetery, where it features in one of the cemetery's historical walking trails. Birman, Wendy (1979)...
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    Hughie Edwards (category Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery)
    Edwards unexpectedly collapsed and died; his ashes were buried in the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth, after a State Funeral and cremation at Northern Suburbs Crematorium...
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    family followed, and his ashes were scattered in a family plot at Karrakatta Cemetery, in Perth. The ashes of Royal New Zealand Air Force Group Captain...
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    Joseph Furphy (category Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery)
    Furphy died in Claremont on 13 September 1912 and is buried in Karrakatta Cemetery. "I have just finished writing a full-sized novel; title, Such is...
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    Robert Bunning (category Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery)
    14 August, and Bunning was buried in the Presbyterian section of Karrakatta Cemetery's. At probate, his estate was valued at £29,220. Bunning's sons Charles...
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    Hugo Throssell (category Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery)
    was buried with full military honours in the Anglican section of Karrakatta cemetery, Perth. In 2014 the grave was refurbished and a new grave stone placed...
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  • graves at the cemetery of Australian soldiers of World War I. Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery East Perth Cemeteries Guildford cemetery "Influence of Wages...
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    Ben Carlin (category Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery)
    died in Perth in March 1981, of a heart attack, and was cremated at Karrakatta Cemetery. His second wife, Elinore, who completed the first half of his journey...
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