Harold Holt
5 August 1908 - 17 December 1967
Prime Minister of Australia from 26 January 1966 to 19 December 1967We are currently preparing a short profile. Please return again soon, or email us if you would like to be notified when this entry is complete. 
His memorial in Melbourne General Cemetery reads as follows: HOLT
HAROLD EDWARD
1908 - 1967ZARA KATE (HOLT) BATE
1909 - 1989HE LOVED THE SEA |
Visit this grave on White Hat Tours' highly entertaining and informative Tour of Melbourne Cemetery. Harold Holt was Prime Minister of Australia from January 1966 until December 1967 when he disappeared whilst swimming in heavy surf of Cheviot Beach. He is one of the few Australian Prime Ministers to die in office.His body has never been found, hence the headstone in Melbourne Cemetery is strictly a memorial rather than his gravestone. Ironically, for someone who died while swimming, he has a swimming pool named after him in Melbourne - The Harold Holt Memorial Pool.
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