Cemeteries

Film of P-NG War Cemeteries

Port Moresby, Aug. 29.

A FILM of the Papua-New Guinea’s War Graves is being made by Brigadier Athol E. Brown, Secretary-General of the Imperial War Graves Commission, who visited main centres in Papua and New Guinea this month.

The film will be previewed in London in a few months’ time.

It will depart from the pattern of previous War Graves films by including scenes of localities and the everyday life of people in the Territory, as well as shots of the Cemeteries.

Brigadier Brown, who is Secretary- General for the Pacific region of the

Commission’s work, said that the film would be of interest to English people as well as to Australians. There were 387 United Kingdom war-dead buried at Bomana.

Families in England and Australia who could not afford a pilgrimage to the Territory would be able to see local cemeteries in the film, and at the same time learn a little of the country where their relatives were interred.

Commenting on the Bomana (Moresby)* Lae, and Bita Paka (Rabaul) War Cemeteries, Brigadier Brown said he was impressed with their natural beauty.

Improvements still to be made at Bomana, include: new lawn surfaces, a new approach road, the “Cross of Sacri fice’’, the “Stone of Remembrance” and a directing table pointing to the battle areas.