Military Graves in Brixton Cemetery. Johannesburg.

These photographs were taken in August 2007 in Brixton Cemetery, Johannesburg. This is a very old cemetery and does not have a specific war graves plot, rather the graves are scattered amongst the other graves in the cemetery. This is the second official cemetery in Johannesburg and was developed in 1912, and originally called the New Cemetery - later renamed Brixton Cemetery. There are reportedly 124 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War and 148 from the First World War in the cemetery. The cemetery also has a large amount of Rand Revolt graves, mine owners, mine casualties, famous and infamous. It would take many years to document this cemetery and its history, and only once you go deeply into it do you realise that it is in reality a microcosm of early Johannesburg and its people.
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Main Entrance and office	Police Plot	The Coffin Rest	General view
The Cross of Sacrifice	The Organ Grave	Rand Revolt Memorial	The Angels
Daisy De Melker's victims	1918 Flu Casualty	Mary Fitzgerald	Bystander. 1922

© DR Walker 2007, 2008.