Peachester Cemetery Caloundra City - Pioneer Memorial Plaques

Strong interest has been shown for commemorative plaques to be provided at Peachester Cemetery by individuals or families, in memory of local early residents who are buried/cremated at other places. Such plaques may, for example, remember local pioneer persons or families and their descendants, or War Service men and women who enlisted from this district but died and were buried/cremated elsewhere, perhaps on the battlefields of the world.

Formal approval is held from Caloundra City Council for Peachester History Committee to arrange production and placement of such plaques along the top of the stone-faced retaining wall below the columbarium staircase. Council rural parks foreman and cemetery sexton Mr Ron Lea has undertaken that a space of one metre will be left from the bottom of that wall to the head of future graves fanning along the wall, so that adequate walk-room will be left for viewing plaques.

The History Committee has established the following policies:

• Right hand retaining wall of 13 metres, facing Cemetery Rd., will be reserved for commemoration of deceased Services personnel, while the left hand wall of 31 metres will carry all other plaques.
• Plaque size will be standard at 380mm x 280mm, laid lengthwise, with 140mm space between plaques. Space along these walls is thus available for 25 Service plaques and 60 others. As a guide only, such plaques will usually accommodate up to 7 lines of text. Actual words per plaque can vary with text and font sizes etc. Plaques are not proposed to carry "life stories" but can tastefully display about 30 words. For clarification, all enquirers are encouraged to examine those plaques already placed on the memorial wall.
• Plaques are to be ordered from Caloundra City Council only through Peachester History Committee, which has been made responsible for collection and placement on top of the wall.
• Current price for production and placement of basic plaques is $240, payable to Peachester History Committee. A modest additional charge is added if applicants wish to add symbolic cast badges/motifs to a plaque.

Reference persons

May 2005