This soldier is a feature of the Hamilton Park Cemetery and was donated by James R Hill to the city for the Year of the Veteran in 2006.

Memorials, plaques and headstones

James R. Hill Funeral Directors provides a range of high quality granite headstones and commemorative plaques that we can arrange to have installed in cemeteries anywhere in the Waikato region with the inscription and decorative memorabilia of your choice.

Photographs, portraits and other mementoes can be either etched (sand-carved) on to the headstone, or included in a ceramic design set onto the stone.

Sand–carved designs are usually transferred onto the stone or plaque from a photograph, or series of photographs – of the person who has died in the setting of your choice, of landscapes, flowers, pets, cars, bikes, or other mementoes that were important to their life.

Ceramic designs usually contain a colour, black and white or sepia photo of the person who has died set in an oval, square, oblong or heart-shaped ceramic shape.

We are also able to carry out restoration work on existing headstones.

We offer guarantees on granite headstones and on the craftsmanship by our Master Monumental Mason.