West Park Cemetery. Johannesburg.

West Park Cemetery is situated on the corner of Beyers Naude Drive and West Park Rd, and is still in use today. The first burials took place in the cemetery during the early 1940's and some of the war graves are amongst the first graves in their respective sections. The cemetery is divided into a number of areas, each catering to different religions and nationalities. There is an extensive Commonwealth War Graves plot with 472 burials in it, as well as a much smaller SADF Plot and a seperate Police Plot. There is a large Jewish section at the cemetery as well as a Holocaust Memorial. A number of famous and infamous have found their rest there, including Nkosi Johnson, Neil Aggett, David Webster, Patrick Mynhardt, Herman Charles Bosman and the victims of the Westdene bus disaster. The cemetery is a difficult one to visit because its so sprawled out, but with the right grave reference graves are very easy to find in some sections. Google Earth co-ordinates are: -26.161989°, 27.993685° or Download the KMZ file Images open in a new window.

Entrance	Layout	Holocaust Memorial
The CWGC Plot	SADF Plot	Police Plot
The SADF Memorial	Westdene Bus Disaster	The Cross of Sacrifice
Nkosi Johnson	David Webster	Patrick Mynhardt Herman Charles Bosman
Cotlands Memorial Wall	Border War Graves	Jewish Military Plot
Random grave	Homemade memorial	An Angel

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