N. Guinea Gets New War Plaques
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Eight new stone memorials are to be erected by the Australian Army in Papua-New Guinea to take the place of 27 memorials at present dotteo around the Territory. The 27 were installed after the war on the instructions of the Commander in Chief of the Australian Military Forces? the late Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blarney.
The 27 memorials are in the form of “notice boards” commemorating important events of the war in the Territory. Because many of the panel:! are in isolated areas little visited, they have been neglected.
The eight new stone memorials will record the events described on the 27 original panels. The memorials will include new bronze plaque:; which will incorporate maps of the areas in which they are installed!
The maps will be drawn by the Army Survey Corps, but the memorial:! will be erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
The eight new stone memorials will be erected at Lae, Gona-Bunat Wau, Wewak, Madang, Finschaffen, Milne Bay and Kokoda. Material:! for their erection will be shipped to New Guinea by army transport an space permits. At left is one of the existing plaques, this one at Madang