Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park & Beyond
The burial sites of murderers, gangsters, and victims from Australia's darkest decades — the 1930s through 1950s. Many rest together in Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, Matraville, NSW.
Born 30 Aug 1902, Sydney • Died 26 Apr 1956
One of Sydney's most feared underworld figures of the 1930s and 40s. Green was a razor gang standover man, associate of Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine, and a central figure in the brutal criminal wars that defined Sydney's underworld during the Depression era. His ashes were scattered in the S2 Rose Garden.
☨ Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park — S2 Rose Garden
Born 1918, Penrith • Died 14 May 1936, aged 17
Edwin Hickey died in Sydney in May 1936 at just seventeen years of age. His death at such a young age, during the height of Sydney's underworld violence, left few records — a reminder of how many lives the era claimed before they had barely begun.
☨ Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park — RCAA, Plot FM AA 1005
Born 5 Mar 1935, NSW • Died 11 Jun 1946, aged 11
Joan Ginn was just eleven years old when she was murdered in Newtown, Sydney in June 1946. Her death shocked post-war Sydney and remains one of the most haunting cases involving a child victim from that era.
☨ Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park — Plot 13
Born 1905, Glebe NSW • Died 17 Apr 1955
Born in the inner-Sydney suburb of Glebe and buried at Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, Veronica Monty's connection to Sydney's criminal history spans the pivotal decades of the 1930s through to her death in 1955.
☨ Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park — RC28, FM 28, Plot 137
Born 9 Nov 1920, Alexandria NSW • Died 4 Jun 1961
A product of Sydney's tough inner-city streets, Greenfield's life ran parallel to the post-war criminal underworld. Born in Alexandria during the Depression years, he died in Sydney aged forty, leaving a sparse public record behind.
☨ Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park — RC29E, FM 29E, Plot 595
Born 12 Jun 1914, Byron Bay NSW • Died 21 Nov 1961
Originally from Byron Bay on the NSW north coast, Cobbin ended up buried in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park — a journey that traced the movement of men drawn into the city's criminal world during the hard years of the 1930s and 40s.
☨ Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park — Memorial Flower Gardens, A7/161
Born 22 May 1864, Sydney • Died 13 Nov 1951, aged 87
A long life that spanned colonial Sydney through to the post-war era. Whitmarsh outlived the entire golden age of the Sydney underworld, dying at eighty-seven and buried in the Roman Catholic section of Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park.
☨ Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park — RCCCC, FM CCC, Plot 393
Born 14 Dec 1846, Murrumburrah NSW • Hanged 19 Mar 1866, aged 19
Youngest member of the Ben Hall Gang, Dunn was convicted of the murder of Constable Samuel Nelson at Collector, NSW in 1865. He was hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol at nineteen — the last of the Hall gang to be brought to justice. An earlier era, but Australia's most storied outlaw tradition.
☨ Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, Matraville NSW
Born c. 1947 • Murdered 8 Jun 1973, aged 26
Lynette White was found stabbed eleven times in her Coogee flat on 8 June 1973 — her throat cut, a kitchen knife still in her chest. Her eleven-week-old son was found unharmed nearby. The case remained one of Sydney's most notorious cold cases for decades, long connected to the 1974 murder of Maria Smith before police separated the investigations.
☨ Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, Matraville NSW
