2019 Upcoming PNGAA Events
A number of gatherings are planned for PNGAA members and their friends through 2019 – they’re always enjoyable days so please support your association and come along! We thank all our organisers. This list...
Category: Rabaul and Montevideo Maru
Rabaul & Montevideo Maru Memorial News, March 2019
Australian War Memorial Re-development The Australian War Memorial has developed a detailed proposal to the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia to fund a major redevelopment of the Memorial’s galleries and precinct, and create...
76th Anniversary – Fall of New Guinea Islands and Montevideo Maru
76th Anniversary – Fall of New Guinea Islands and the Montevideo Maru Last Post Ceremony, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT All welcome Date: 30 June 2018 Time: 4.40pm Place: Australian War Memorial, Pool...
Memorial News September 2017
75 years ago, in January 1942, Rabaul was Australia’s front line in the Pacific war. This was a war fought on Australian soil against Australian people, both soldiers and civilians…a critical period in the...
75th Anniversary Montevideo Maru, Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
On 22 June 1942, 75 years ago, 1053 Australians boarded a Japanese hellship, Montevideo Maru, in Rabaul, the capital of the Australian Mandated Territory of New Guinea, and on 1 July 1942 every one...
22 June and 1 July 2017 – 75th Anniversary WWII Rabaul and New Guinea Islands
On 22 June 1942, nearly 75 years ago, 1053 Australians boarded a Japanese hellship in Rabaul, the capital of the Australian Mandated Territory of New Guinea, and on 1 July 1942 every one of...
75th Anniversary Service RABAUL and MONTEVIDEO MARU Group, Papua New Guinea Association of Australia Inc
RABAUL on Thursday 22 JUNE 2017 To remember all those lost in the New Guinea islands in 1942 the 75th anniversary service will be held on dusk at the Montevideo Maru and Rabaul 1942-1945 Memorial,...
Memorial News
75th ANNIVERSARY SERVICES RABAUL and MONTEVIDEO MARU – to be held in RABAUL on 22 JUNE 2017, the AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL, CANBERRA, ACT, on 1 July 2017. These services remember all those lost in...
Rabaul and Montevideo Maru 75th Anniversary Commemorative Service – 1 July 2017 – Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT.
A service to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the fall of the New Guinea islands in early 1942 and the sinking of the Montevideo Maru on 1 July 1942 will be held at the...
1 July 2017 – Rabaul and Montevideo Maru 75th Anniversary Commemorative Dinner, Canberra Mercure Hotel
Rabaul and Montevideo Maru 75th Anniversary Commemorative Dinner at Canberra Mercure on 1 July 2017, following 1pm service at Australian War Memorial, Canberra. Time: 6.00pm Venue: Mercure Canberra, Corner of Ainslie and Limestone Ave,...
Rabaul and Montevideo Maru Memorial News
What’s On? 75th Anniversary 2017 The Rabaul and Montevideo Maru group is planning services in Rabaul, PNG, on 22 June 2017 and at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT on 1 July 2017. Further...
