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Cemetery Details
Location | Lae, Papua New Guinea |
Co‑ordinates | S6.7224677, E146.9976822 |
Description | Memorial Ave, LAE, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.
LAE WAR CEMETERY is located adjacent to the Botanical Gardens in the centre of Lae. There is a RAAF DC3 Aircraft mounted in the LAE Botanic Gardens (shown on map). In the early months of 1942, Japan enjoyed a crushing superiority in the air, and it was Lae and its neighbouring airfields that were the objects of the first Japanese attack on New Guinea. Lae and Salamaua were bombed on 21 January 1942 by 100 planes, but the land forces did not enter the territory until 7 March, when 3,000 Japanese landed at Lae. The cemetery also contains two VICTORIA CROSS recipients
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The cemetery contains the graves of men who lost their lives during the New Guinea campaign whose graves were brought here from the temporary military cemeteries in areas where the fighting took place. The Indian casualties were soldiers of the army of undivided India who had been taken prisoner during the fighting in Malaya and Hong Kong.
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Showing 8 people of interest from cemetery
Service number QX5873
Corporal
2nd/15th Infantry Battalion
2nd AIF WW 2
Born 6 Dec 1916
Service number 401970
Flying Officer
No. 4 Squadron (RAAF)
Royal Australian Air Force
Born 21 Sep 1920
Service number SX15851
Private
2nd/7th Independent Company
2nd AIF WW 2
Born 1 Jan 1922
Service number 250748
Flight Lieutenant
No. 22 Squadron (RAAF)
Royal Australian Air Force
Born 8 Jun 1919
Service number QX17551
Corporal
2nd/25th Infantry Battalion
2nd AIF WW 2
Born 12 May 1918
Service number SX6624
Warrant Officer Class 2
2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion
2nd AIF WW 2
Born 9 Jul 1919
Service number SX9339
Captain
2nd/7th Field Regiment
2nd AIF WW 2
Born 10 May 1911
Service number SX8894
Major
2nd/48th Infantry Battalion
2nd AIF WW 2
Born 5 Jun 1904