Port Moresby (Bomana) Memorial

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Location Pilgrims Way, Port Moresby, National Capital District - Papua, Papua New Guinea
Type buildings
Description

The Port Moresby Memorial is situated on a hill within the Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, which is located approximately 19 kilometres north of Port Moresby on the road to Nine Mile. It is approached from the main road by a short side road called Pilgrims Way.

The memorial commemorates over 700 officers and men of the Australian Army (including Papuan and New Guinea local forces), the Australian Merchant Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force, who gave their lives during the operations in Papua and who have no known grave. Men of the Royal Australian Navy who lost their lives in the south-western Pacific region, and who have no graves but the sea, are commemorated on Plymouth Naval Memorial in England, along with many of their comrades of the Royal Navy and of other Commonwealth Naval Forces.

The Memorial consists of a rotunda of cylindrical pillars enclosing a circle of square pillars bearing on their inside bronze panels upon which the names are engraved. In the centre is a low circular stone table on which is a bronze compass.

(extract from CWGC site)

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Built Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Opened Not yet discovered
Inscription

Condition

Good

Names

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HALL, Thomas

Service number VX52875
Lieutenant
2nd/14th Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 9 Nov 1910

MCKAY, Bernard Linton

Service number TX677
Sergeant
2nd/12th Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 4 Dec 1912

MATSCHOSS, Alexander Roy

Service number SX14602
Private
Born 18 May 1908

HATCHER, Ivor Clarence

Service number 417183
Flying Officer
No. 86 Squadron (RAAF)
Royal Australian Air Force
Born 3 May 1923

DUNHAM, Lewis Melvin

Service number 406672
Flying Officer
No. 11 Squadron (RAAF)
Royal Australian Air Force
Born 29 Mar 1910

SMITH, Noel John

Service number NX14999
Lieutenant
31/51 (amalgamated) Infantry Battalion AMF
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 28 Apr 1914

EMMETT, Geoffrey Raymond

Service number 401932
Flight Sergeant
No. 100 Squadron (RAAF)
Royal Australian Air Force
Born 28 Feb 1911

VERCOE, Harold Woodman Wilson

Service number NX2246
Corporal
2nd/2nd Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 12 Oct 1912

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