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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1953Vol. XXIII, No. 7

Did You Remember?

p. 136 · Read in the full issue

Mrs. N. H. Fox croft, president of the New Guinea Women’s Club of Sydney, places a wreath on the Martin Place Ceno taph, on January 23, which was the nth anniversary of the Fail of Rabaul.

Only about 20 persons attended the ceremony in Sydney this year the smallest number ever.

Mr, Alan Pagett, secretary of the NG Ex-Servicemen’s Club, said: “The public seems to have com pletely forgotten the men who fought and died In Rabaul to protect them.’’

Block by courtesy of Sydney Sun.