Linwood Cemetery, Christchurch, is a public cemetery and is not designated as a Services Cemetery, yet there are over 281 service personnel commemorated therein.
These heroic people have been largely forgotten in this once majestic greenspace and important heritage site which, in addition to years of neglect, has suffered greatly in the February 2011 earthquake.
Lest we forget, the Friends of Linwood Cemetery are holding an ANZAC Day Commemoration of Soldiers Remembered in Linwood Cemetery on Monday 25th April 2011, (Easter Monday and ANZAC Day). It will be from 10am-12pm.
We will meet at 10am in the car park on Butterfield Avenue and there will be a reading out of the Linwood Cemetery Roll of Honour at 10.15am. A temporary memorial will be created near the cemetery entrance. At 11am there will be an opportunity to place poppies on individual graves.






