Memorial News
Memorial News Are You Interested in a Trip to Rabaul? A number of people have expressed an interest in returning to Rabaul with a group of interested travellers. The week around Anzac Day 2023...
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MEMORIAL NEWS
Commemorating the 80th Anniversary Commemorative Service—1 July 2022 A special service will be held at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra on 1 July 2022. A dinner will also be hosted that evening. It...
Memorial News
The Rabaul & Montevideo Maru Society was established in 2009 and integrated into the PNGAA in 2013. The society encourages students and adults to explore the significance of WWII in the Papua New Guinea...
A Sydney Anzac Day March to Remember : Russell Wade – PNGK Sept 2021
Anzac Day 2021 was a momentous occasion for Warrant Officer John Irwin (‘Jock’) Wilkinson, having both recently turned 100 and met his personal goal to march on his own two feet on Anzac Day....
Memorial News – RABAUL & MONTEVIDEO MARU SOCIETY
The Rabaul & Montevideo Maru Society was established in 2009 and integrated into the PNGAA in 2013. The society encourages students and adults to explore the significance of WWII in the Papua New Guinea...
Papua New Guinea Remembers—Anzac Day 2021
Australian achievements in Papua New Guinea during WW II were critical to victory in the Pacific War against the Japanese. Australians fought alongside men of the Papuan Infantry Battalion and the Pacific Islands Regiment,...
Papuan Carriers Memorial by RICK MOOR – PNGK June 2021
The Kokoda Track, which runs ninety-six km through the Owen Stanley Range in Papua New Guinea, was the location of the 1942 World War II battle between Japanese and Australian forces in what was...
