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Tuesday 24 April 2012

Walking in their footsteps Part 8: Bourke Cemetery




Bourke cemetery was so much bigger than I expected. All types of graves, all types of people, all types of religions. Here are a few that caught my eye ...

Fred Hollows (192901993) was a well-known ophthalmologist who helped restore the sight of many people in Australia and overseas. His grave is very moving to see, along with the tributes that are found at the cemetery to his great work.




Graves of the early Afghan camel drivers ...



These are the ones I find particularly sad - the ones without names, graves broken by time, the graves with a simple iron cross, graves with a simple wooden fence, graves just labelled with "Mum" and "Dad", side-by-side.. 







1 comment:

  1. Great photographs Maria, I hope to get to Bourke someday.

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