Bromley Cemetery

{{short description|Cemetery in Christchurch, New Zealand}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=April 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox cemetery | name = Bromley Cemetery | image = Bromley Cemetery 01.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Graves of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) | established = | country = New Zealand | location = Christchurch | coordinates = {{coord|-43.5387|172.6863|region:NZ-CAN|display=inline}} | type = | style = | owner = | size = | graves = | interments = >28,000 | cremations = | leases = | website = {{Official website|https://www.ccc.govt.nz/services/cemeteries/operational-cemeteries#bromley}} | findagraveid= 2154544 }}

'''Bromley Cemetery''' is a cemetery in Christchurch, New Zealand. It occupies approximately 10 hectares to the east of the city centre, on the corner of Keighleys Road and Linwood Avenue. The Christchurch City Council maintains and administers the cemetery.

==History== The Christchurch City Council searched for additional cemetery land beginning in 1913, and opened Bromley Cemetery for burials in July 1918.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bromley Cemetery – Brief History |url=http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Cemeteries/Bromley/|work=Christchurch City Libraries |access-date=26 September 2011}}</ref> Later that year the cemetery became the main burial place for fatalities of the 1918 flu pandemic from the eastern side of the city.

The cemetery has two rows of Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association (RSA) interments, and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) has records of 109 burials at Bromley, 15 from World War I and 94 from World War II.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cemetery Details – Christchurch (Bromley) Cemetery |url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/70612 |work=Commonwealth War Graves Commission |access-date=26 September 2011}}</ref> In addition, the CWGC commemorates 33 Commonwealth service personnel cremated at Bromley Crematorium during World War II.<ref name=cwgc2>{{cite web| url= http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/2104013/CHRISTCHURCH%20(BROMLEY)%20CREMATORIUM |title=Cemetery Details |access-date=27 October 2014| publisher=Commonwealth War Graves Commission}}</ref> On the eve of Anzac Day 2008, over 160 headstones of veterans were painted over for maintenance to improve the inscriptions, which received criticism from visitors and the RSA due to the timing.<ref name="Stuff.co.nz_386661">{{cite web |url= http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/386661/War-grave-upgrade-angers |title=War-grave upgrade angers |date=25 April 2008 |work=The Press |access-date=26 September 2011}}</ref>

The cemetery is full and only accepts burials to existing plots or ash interments.

==Notable burials== {{main category|Burials at Bromley Cemetery}} * John Beanland (1866–1943), 36th Mayor of Christchurch * Annette Clifford (1881–1968), Christchurch property owner and landlord * H. H. Clifford (1872–1949), photographer * Ted Howard (1868–1939), Labour Party MP * Mabel Howard (1894–1972), Labour Party MP * Arthur Rhodes (1859–1922), member of parliament and 24th Mayor of Christchurch * William Trethewey (1892–1956), sculptor and monumental mason

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{Commons category|Bromley Cemetery}} * {{Official website|https://www.ccc.govt.nz/services/cemeteries/operational-cemeteries#bromley}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120402231515/http://www.ccc.govt.nz/cityleisure/communityservices/cemeteries/operatingcemeteries/bromleycemetery.aspx Bromley Cemetery] on the Christchurch City Council website * [https://archive.today/20121220230102/http://librarydata.christchurch.org.nz/Cemeteries/ Christchurch City Council Cemeteries Database]

Category:Cemeteries in Christchurch Category:Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries