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Tombstone of Elizabeth Williams
The White Hat Guide to Melbourne General Cemetery

Recently, a ceremony was held at Sunshine Station to commemorate one of Australia's worst rail disasters which occurred in 1908.

The small town of Braybrook Junction had recently been renamed Sunshine because H.V.McKay had chosen to relocate his Sunshine Harvester factory from Ballarat to the area.

In circumstances that are still not fully explained, the Bendigo train ploughed into the Ballarat train on the night of April 20, 1908, resulting in 44 deaths and injuring over 500 people. The full story of The Sunshine Disaster can be heard on the White Hat Tours' Tour of Melbourne Cemetery.

In
Memory
OF

ELIZABETH

THE BELOVED WIFE OF
JOHN L. WILLIAMS

WHO WAS KILLED IN THE
SUNSHINE DISASTER
20^TH APRIL 1908,
AGED 50 YEARS.

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN.

ALSO THE ABOVE
JOHN L. WILLIAMS
WHO DIED 14^TH MAY 1916,
AGED 58 YEARS.

RE-UNITED.

AND THEIR BELOVED SON
LESLIE
WHO WAS KILLED AT GALLIPOLI
7^TH AUGUST 1915,
AGED 24 YEARS.

ALSO THEIR DEAR SON
ALFRED DAVID WILLIAMS
DIED 26^TH FEBRUARY 1958, AGED 64 YEARS.

R.I.P.

Some other gravestones in Melbourne General Cemetery associated with railway accidents include:

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Qantas In Flight Magazine chooses White Hat Cemetery Tour as its featured Australian tour for May

There are many fine historical tours throughout Australia including cemetery tours. From these, the prestigious Qantas In Flight Magazine has chosen the White Hat Tour of Melbourne Cemetery as its featured Australian tour for the May 2007 edition. This tour was also featured by ABC radio on 24 May and will feature in a documentary series on Burke and Wills to be shown on European television in 2008. The tour has been operating for many years and has won praise from a wide range of sources. This is not a dry and stuffy tour but in keeping with all White Hat offerings it is Informed, Intelligent, Independent (and occasionally) Irreverent. You can find details of the tour at White Hat Tour of Melbourne Cemetery and view the article at Qantas In Flight Magazine.

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