Memorial Park Cemetery also known as Pioneer Cemetery and Old Albany Cemetery is a cemetery located along Middleton Road in the city of Albany in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.

It was constructed in 1836 and is the first consecrated cemetery in Western Australia, gazetted in 1840 as a public burial ground to provide for the needs of a growing community. It was closed as a public cemetery in 1959, with a few burials being held there until 2000 and ashes placed there until 2009. Most burials now being held at Allambie Park Cemetery. It is thought to be the longest serving public cemetery in Western Australia.

Memorial Park Cemetery (Albany, Western Australia)

The hillside cemetery occupies an area of approximately and is divided into demoninational sections containing a total of approximately 5,000 graves. It is composed of two parts, the upper cemetery and the lower cemetery, separated by Middleton Road. Easily accessed by pedestrians the site has a number of mature native and exotic trees and a range of diversity, style and age of memorials and grave fittings on the plots.

Memorial Park Cemetery (Albany, Western Australia)

Classified by the National Trust in 2000, the cemetery was listed on the permanent register of the Heritage Council of Western Australia in 2003.

Memorial Park Cemetery (Albany, Western Australia)

Notable burials

Francis Bird

Henry Camfield

John Wollaston

Alexander Collie

Alexander Cockburn-Campbell

Spencer family

Hassell family

William Grills Knight

Moir family

Robert Andrew Muir

See also

List of places on the State Register of Heritage Places in the City of Albany

References

Heritage places in Albany, Western Australia

Cemeteries in Western Australia

Middleton Road, Albany

1836 establishments in Australia

State Register of Heritage Places in the City of Albany