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Location Rabaul, Blanche Bay, Papua New Guinea
Type memorial
Description

The Memorial takes the form of an avenue of stone pylons leading from the entrance building to the Cross of Sacrifice. Bronze panels bearing the names are affixed to the faces of the pylons. A central stone lectern at the commencement of the avenue carries a bronze plate.

The Rabaul Memorial commemorates over 1,200 members of the Australian Army (including personnel of the New Guinea and Papuan local forces and constabulary) and the Royal Australian Air Force, who lost their lives in New Britain and New Ireland in January and February 1942 or who were lost as a result of the sinking of the S.S. Montevideo Maru in July 1942 and those in New Britain from November 1944 to August 1945, 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 other Commonwealth Naval Forces.

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Inscription

AD MAJOREM DEI GLORIAM IN THIS PLACE ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS WHO DIED DURING THE 1939-1945 WAR IN THE NEW BRITAIN AREA, ON LAND, AT SEA AND IN THE AIR, BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNES OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH

Condition

Very good.

Names

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CALLAGHAN, Neill Ross

Service number NX52913
Private
Born 17 Jan 1914

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LYONS, Leslie James

Service number NX60128
Gunner
Anti Tank Batteries / Companies
Australian Military Forces (Army WW2)
Born 7 Apr 1910

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RUSSELL, Robert William

Service number VX26518
Corporal
2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (Army WW2)
Born 28 Feb 1920

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RICHARDS, Eric Surcombe

Service number TX4380
Bombardier
Born 14 Apr 1916

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SEMPLE, Douglas George

Service number 26741
Flight Sergeant
No. 22 Squadron (RAAF)
Royal Australian Air Force
Born 6 Nov 1921

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LEWIS, Norman David

Service number VX40377
Corporal
2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (Army WW2)
Born 4 Oct 1917

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MURRAY, Mervyn James

Service number SX38282
Private
Fortress / Coastal Artillery & Supporting Elements
Australian Military Forces (Army WW2)
Born 14 Sep 1918

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HAINES, Trevor William George

Service number VX37510
Private
2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (Army WW2)
Born 8 Feb 1918

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