Waikumete Cemetery's sign

Photo taken 1 April 2009. The main entrance on Great North Road with the Crematorian and Chapel in the background.

Waikumete Cemetery Crematorium with office and chapels

Erubus Memorial

SC - Ash Eucalyptus Glade enclosure sign, Waikumete Cemetery - an area for people to scatter the ashes of their loved ones.

SC - Ash Eucalyptus Glade enclosure, Waikumete Cemetery - an area for people to scatter the ashes of their loved ones.

Soldiers Division K (near main entrance, opposite the crematorium.

1939 - 45

Those whose names are recorded here
died in the service of their country
and were cremated at Waikumete,

BEAVER, JOHN OMRI
Lieutenant 618189, N.Z. Military Forces died 1-5-1943 aged 50 years.

BRODIE, GEORGE ERIC SILKE
Captain 604465 N.Z. Military Forces died 29-1-1943 Aged 46 years.

CHAPMAN, ALLEN BRYAN
Sapper 468771 N.Z. Engineers died 2-10-1947 aged 42 years.

DALE, THOMAS BRIDSON
Lieutenant N.Z. Permananent Staff died 16-12-1941 aged 56 years.

HAWKE, FFREDERICK JOHN
Sergeant 809668 N.Z. Military Forces died 22-10-1943 aged 56 years.

McGREGOR, IAN
Pilot Officer 401461 RNZAF died 17-12-1942 aged 26 years.

PLAISTER, REGINALD
Leading Aircraftman 405391 RNZAF died 26-10-1944 aged 51 years.

THEIR NAME LIVETH FOREVER MORE

The ashes of these men were interred in 1977, having
previously been stored in the chapel building in the
southeast corner of this cemetery. Their final resting
place is marked by a plaque in the chapel lawn.

Below this plaque there lie at rest the ashes
of those persons who were cremated between
1923-1967 at the original Waikumete Crematorium

These ashes were placed in the safe keeping of
The Auckland City Council as the cemetery
authority and were held with in the historic
chapel adjacent until moved in the year 1978
to this final place of rest

The ashes are in a vault beneath the plaque near the chapel. They were kept in the little old chapel for many years, but it needed some major restoration work, so a decision was made to inter all the ashes in a below ground vault for safe keeping.

The location of the Columbarium Vault near the Chapel of Faith in the Oaks

Waikumete Cemetery's historic Chapel of Faith in the Oaks, Old Chapel Way

Buried beneath this stone on the 23rd day of November 1997 are ashes recovered in 1946 from the crematorium in Auschwitz by camp survivors Armin Glanz and Karel Beran.

Location: Waikumete Cemetery, Hebrew Berm B

In Memory of the six million Jewish men, women and children murdered in the Holocaust.

Also the plaque, buried beneath are the ashes recovered in 1946 from the crematorium.

Location: Waikumete Cemetery, Hebrew Berm B

Shows the final resting place of the victims of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic, Waikumete Cemetery, Anglican Division E

The Memorial to the victims of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic which marks the final resting place of many of the 1,128 men, women and children of Auckland, Waikumete Cemetery, Anglican Division E

Waikumete Cemetery entrance 2016

Waikumete Cemetery's sign

Part of the older section.