Rabaul Memorial

Details

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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WOODROFFE, Harold Maurice

Service number 407542
Flying Officer
No. 30 Squadron (RAAF)
Royal Australian Air Force
Born 30 Sep 1917

ROADKNIGHT, William Tasman Scholey

Service number VX23100
Private
2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (Army WW2)
Born 26 Aug 1919

TWEDDLE, Charles Joseph

Service number VX46297
Private
2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (Army WW2)
Born 18 Feb 1916

RICHARDSON, Raymond John

Service number 401017
Sergeant
No. 11 Squadron (RAAF)
Royal Australian Air Force
Born 8 Nov 1921

THORNTON, Frank Edgar

Service number VX27908
Private
2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (Army WW2)
Born 23 Jul 1912

COOK, Ronald Harry

Service number VX37490
Private
2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (Army WW2)
Born 25 Jan 1920

SINCLAIR, James Keith

Service number 405943
Flight Sergeant
Born 10 Feb 1921

DANIELS, William Lawrence

Service number 416416
Flight Sergeant
No. 30 Squadron (RAAF)
Royal Australian Air Force
Born 20 Dec 1922

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