Clem Hill: The Final Resting Place of Australia's Great Left-Hander #cricket #history

Podcast host Tom Ford visits North Road cemetery in Nailsworth, Adelaide, the burial location of Australia's dominant left-hander from the Golden Age – Clem Hill (1877–1945).

While he'd been living in Melbourne following the death of his wife Florrie in 1938, Clem's body was returned to his home city after his death on 5 September 1945. North Road cemetery was traditionally a graveyard for Anglican (Church of England) burials, and the Hill family's plot here is quite unusual. Clem's family (particularly his father) were devout Methodists, and both Clem and Florrie were raised as such, including being married in the Paterson Street Methodist church in Launceston in 1905.

It appears neither Clem or his wife held particularly strong religious beliefs, leading to the couple (and their three children) all being buried in Nailsworth. Clem's funeral was conducted by the South Australian Anglican patriarch, Archdeacon Clampett, who was 84 years old in 1945.

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