Cowra POW Camp 75th Anniversary Memorial

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Location Evans Street, Cowra, New South Wales, Australia
Type memorial
Description

Each panel shows a different aspect of life in the town's Prisoner of War camp between 1941 and 1946.
There's the Aussie soldier guarding the prisoners, the baseball-fixated Japanese, the music-loving Italians and the Indonesian mothers with their children (who, like most of the Italians, were interned because their country was at war with Australia).
For most of the camp's existence it was a calm place.
Then on 5 August 1944 the 1,104 Japanese inmates attempted a mass breakout, resulting in the deaths of 234 of them plus 5 Australian guards.
The memorial, supported by the Cowra Council, COWRA Lions Club Inc., Australian Lions Foundation, and Cowra Breakout Association, was erected at the POW Camp site on the breakout's 75th anniversary.
Location: Evans Street, Cowra

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These four panels depict
aspects of the Cowra Prisoner
of War Camp over its six-year
life from 1941 to 1947 .... the
Australia solider on guard,
Japanese playing baseball,
Italians and their love of music
and the Indonesian mothers
and children.
This relatively calm time was
shattered in the early morning
of the 5th August 1944. The
Breakout resulted in the
deaths of 234 Japanese and 5
Australians.

For the 75th Anniversary
- Cowra Remembers -

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