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Brixton Cemetery

Also known as New Cemetery

Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa

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Get directions 55 Bartlett Road, Johannesburg, Gauteng 2092, South Africa

Coordinates: -26.19583, 28.01139
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Take the Smit Street off-ramp from the M1 and turn in the direction of Brixton. Follow Smit Street which becomes 17th Avenue for three blocks and this large cemetery is on the right. A War Cross is erected in the cemetery, as well as a memorial to the South African Scottish.

During the Second World War, there was a large military wing in the Johannesburg General Hospital and military hospitals at Baragwanath and Cottesloe. The Baragwanath hospital handled a large number of casualties sent from the Middle East. Flying training under the Empire Air Training Scheme was conducted on a considerable scale from the Baragwanath airfield. Further to the south-west at Lenz was the largest ammunition depot in South Africa.

Johannesburg (Brixton) Cemetery contains 124 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War and 153 from the First World War.

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