Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea

Cemetery Details

Location
Co‑ordinates S9.3957056, E147.2524506
Description

Those who died in the fighting in Papua and Bougainville are buried in PORT MORESBY (BOMANA) WAR CEMETERY, their graves brought in by the Australian Army Graves Service from burial grounds in the areas where the fighting had taken place. 

The cemetery contains 3,824 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 699 of them unidentified. There is also 1 Non war and 1 Dutch Foreign National burials here.

The PORT MORESBY MEMORIAL stands behind the cemetery and commemorates almost 750 men of the Australian Army (including Papua and New Guinea local forces), the Australian Merchant Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force who lost their lives in the operations in Papua and who have no known graves. Men of the Royal Australian Navy who died in the south-west Pacific region, and have no known grave but the sea, are commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial in England, along with many of their comrades of the Royal Navy and of other Commonwealth Naval Forces. Bougainville casualties who have no known graves are commemorated on a memorial at Suva, Fiji.

 

Source: CWGC (www.cwgc.org)

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BARRITT, Leonard

Service number QX3455
Private
2nd/9th Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 20 Mar 1920

MASTERS, Edward George

Service number WX5986
Private
2nd/16th Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 3 Apr 1908

IRVINE, Charles Cameron

Service number VX19453
Sergeant
2nd/14th Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 9 Aug 1919

BOWMAN, Douglas Arthur

Service number SX442
Private
2nd/10th Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 25 Jul 1916

JORGENSEN, Arthur Trevor

Service number QX60848
Private
2nd/31st Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 17 Apr 1925

GOSCH, James Percival

Service number WX13019
Private
2nd/14th Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 4 Feb 1921

WATT, Peter

Service number WX13082
Private
Born 3 Jun 1919

REESE, Keith Roy Allen

Service number SX867
Corporal
2nd/10th Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 20 Feb 1912