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Woden Cemetery

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It closed for burials in 1979, but was re-opened in March 1999. Memorial gardens were opened in 1992, and the Christ the Redeemer Mausoleum, for burial in above-ground vaults, was completed in 2001.
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The cemetery is nearing capacity; it was announced in February 2009 that it would be full in about 10 years, necessitating the construction of a third cemetery to service the city.
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It contains the war graves of 30 Australian service personnel of
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The cemetery opened in 1936 as the Canberra General Cemetery.
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Colour photograph of gravestones
Canberra
Coordinates
35°20′38″S 149°05′35″E / 35.344°S 149.093°E / -35.344; 149.093
Woden Cemetery
Find a Grave
Woden Cemetery
Canberra
Australia
Woden Town Centre
Ernest Albert Corey
John Linton Treloar
Lewis Nott
Francis Patrick Dwyer
Gordon Upton
George Knowles
Robert Strachan Wallace
Herbert Vere Evatt
Australian Labor Party
Australian High Court
New South Wales
General Assembly of the United Nations
World War II



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