[5] The Chairman of the Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park Board from 1 January 2005 to 3 August 2012 was the former police chief inspector and Mayor of Waverley, John Douglas Morrison.

[6][7] Designed in 1937 in the Inter-war Art Deco style by architect Louis Leighton Robertson of Louis S. Robertson & Son, architects, and built by Lipscombe & Price, master builders of Bowral, the crematorium was praised as "dignified in classic lines, the design will be relieved by flutings of the columns and moulded panels".

[19] These include five Royal Australian Air Force servicemen killed in an Avro Anson crash at RAAF Richmond in December 1939.

[21][22] Pioneer Park contains historic headstones which were relocated from Devonshire Street Cemetery in 1901 to make space for Central railway station.

In 1976, the Botany Cemetery Trust removed a large number most of these monuments by creating a new, low maintenance lawn area.