Broome Pioneer Cemetery (Seamen's Cemetery, Seafarer's Cemetery)
-Physical Description
Broome Pioneer Cemetery comprises 11 graves and a number of memorial plots
and commemorative sites. The pioneer graves have headstones and two graves
have palisade surrounds.
-History
The first graves on the site were of men who had died at sea. The first
burial took place in 1883, the same year that Broome was gazetted as a town.
Pemberton Walcott (1883), Inspector of Pearl Fisheries, Sub-Collector of
Revenue and an Officer of Customs; pearler Matthew Forrest (1884) brother of
John and Alexander Forrest and pearler Edward Cokayne Chippindall (1886).