Special Areas

Jewish Area

The Jewish Memorial Gardens within Springvale Botanical Cemetery have been specially established for the Jewish community.

Families have the option to choose from a rose or shrub location.

Police Area

The Police Memorial within Springvale Botanical Cemetery provides police officers, their families and friends with a private and spiritual place in which they can pay their respects.

A plaque for each police officer who has died whilst on active duty is positioned around the rock.

Garden beds along the pathway to the Police Memorial are filled with annual flowers and Golden Holstein roses which provide lightly scented blooms in attractive clusters of yellow wavy petals.

These beds allow for the placement of plaques in remembrance of police officers and their families.

Family garden seats are also available as memorials and can be exclusively dedicated to your family.

Each year in September the Police Memorial hosts the official close of National Police Remembrance Day.  All are welcome.

Australian War Graves

Within the grounds of Springvale Botanical Cemetery is the Australian War Graves Garden of Remembrance.

The garden honours the veterans buried within it, as well as those with a remembrance plaque on the official Australian War Graves walls.

Australian War Graves has its own on-site administration office, with the entry housing register books which list the wall and row number of each individual plaque located on the Garden of Remembrance walls.

An alternative to the Garden of Remembrance walls for families of veterans is to select wall niche positions from designated walls within Springvale Botanical Cemetery.

Unlike the Garden of Remembrance walls, these positions will accommodate the placement of cremated remains.

If you have any queries in relation to Australian War Graves, please contact (02) 6289 1111.