Ipswich General Cemetery

The Ipswich General Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia.

[1] It is owned by Ipswich City Council, but the council have outsourced the day-to-day operations to a private contractor Norwood Park Limited, trading as Ipswich Cemeteries.

[4] The Australian forces war graves (comprising 64 army and 24 air force personnel) are on a triangular plot, dominated by a Cross of Sacrifice.

[5] The first recorded burial in the cemetery was four-year-old John Carr on 20 July 1868.

[6] However, recent investigations using metal detectors have located a number of undocumented graves in the pioneer section of the cemetery which may date back to the 1840s.