Before the creation of Mundaring Cemetery families travelled to Midland and Guildford for funerals.

[1] The Swan Express newspaper suggested the location of the Mundaring Cemetery was not proving an ideal site for "the city of the dead" as the ground was too rocky.

The next recorded burial was that of Private Gordon Jacques[3] of the 28th Battalion.

Jacques had been gassed during World War I and returned home for care, dying shortly afterwards in January 1919.

His brother carved the timber enclosure that surrounds the grave.