Rabaul (Bita Paka) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea

Cemetery Details

Location Rabaul, New Britain - Blanche Bay, Papua New Guinea
Co‑ordinates S4.40651, E152.29945
Description

RABAUL (BITA PAKA) WAR CEMETERY contains the graves of those who lost their lives during the operations in New Britain and New Ireland, or who died in the area while prisoners of war, which were brought into the cemetery from isolated sites, from temporary military cemeteries and from camp burial grounds. 

The cemetery contains 1,120 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 500 of them unidentified.

This cemetery also contains First World War graves brought in from Rabaul Cemetery in 1950 and from Kokopo Old German Cemetery in 1961. Special memorials commemorate three casualties who were buried in Rabaul Old Civil Cemetery, but whose graves could not be traced following damage to the cemetery during the Japanese occupation. In all, 32 First World War servicemen are now buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 

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Names

Showing 8 people of interest from cemetery

LYONS, Vincent

Service number VX24936
Private
2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 28 May 1920

HEATH, Jeffrey Allan

Service number 412440
Flight Sergeant
No. 100 Squadron (RAAF)
Royal Australian Air Force
Born 10 Jul 1921

WILSON, Rowland Joshua

Service number 938
Sergeant

UHLMAN, Stanley Gordon

Service number VX44347
Private
No. 1 Independent Company
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 1 May 1911

KYLE, Alan Fairlie

Service number OFFICER
Lieutenant
HMAS Basilisk
Royal Australian Navy
Born 7 Feb 1898

OBST, Gustav Adolph

Service number P444
Warrant Officer Class 2
Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 21 Mar 1900

WALKER, John Edward

Service number 45
Able Seaman
Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force
Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Forces (New Guinea 1914)
Born 17 Dec 1884

MILLS, Jack

Service number SX11448Q
Gunner
Born 14 Jul 1918