Friends of St Kilda Cemetery

The Friends of St Kilda Cemetery are a not-for-profit community group working actively with Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust, the administrators of St Kilda Cemetery.

COMMEMORATING BARON VON MUELLER

COMMEMORATING BARON VON MUELLER

The Friends of St Kilda Cemetery Incorporated, with Mr Michael Pearce SC Honorary Consul-General of Germany and the German Club Tivoli, will hold a memorial ceremony to mark 125 years since the passing of Baron Sir Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller.

The ceremony will take place on Saturday 26 February 2022 at 2.00pm at St Kilda Cemetery.

Members of the public are most welcome to attend the ceremony at the Cemetery. Financial members of FOSKC are invited to an afternoon tea at the German Club - almost opposite the Cemetery - following the ceremony. More details will be provided closer to the event.

For updated information, please contact President Gabriel Hermes on 0451831102.

Baron Von Mueller

Photographer: John William Lindt

State Library Victoria Accession No H37475/24

Did you know - the remains of three victims from the fever ship “Glen Huntly” were removed from Point Ormond and reburied in St Kilda Cemetery in 1898.

Did you know - that Major General Sir John Hoad, the Australian Army’s second Chief of the General Staff, started his working career as a teacher. His last teaching position was at Brighton Road State School no.1479, St Kilda.

Did you know - that on 27 August 1890 in the St Kilda Cemetery a memorial was unveiled to honour the early pioneers who had come out in the ship ‘Glen Huntly’.

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    Dandenong Road St Kilda East

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