Rabaul (Bita Paka) War Cemetery, established in 1945, is located near the site of the former Bita Paka wireless station south of the city of Rabaul,...
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captured by the Australians. Rabaul (Bita Paka) War Cemetery is nearby. Rowland, Michael (2014-09-07). "World War I: Bita Paka and the day German New Guinea...
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Woolos Cemetery, Newport – Opened in 1854, the first municipally-owned cemetery in Wales Lae War Cemetery Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery Rabaul (Bita Paka)...
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Sefanaia Sukanaivalu (category Fijian World War II recipients of the Victoria Cross)
of the Fijian 1st Docks Company. Sukanaivalu was buried at Rabaul (Bita Paka) War Cemetery, New Britain, Papua New Guinea. In 2005, it was announced that...
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constructed approximately 2,500 war cemeteries and numerous memorials. The commission is currently responsible for the care of war dead at over 23,000 separate...
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1841 and 1866. There were no further burials here until World War II (1939–1945). The cemetery is roughly triangular in shape and stands on ground rising...
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Sai Wan War Cemetery is a military cemetery located in Chai Wan, Hong Kong which was built in 1946. The cemetery was created to commemorate soldiers of...
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Coriano Ridge War Cemetery, locally known as the English War Cemetery (Italian: Cimitero di guerra inglese), is a Commonwealth military cemetery in Coriano...
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Tower Hill Memorial (redirect from Merchant Navy War Memorial)
the IWGC during the war, in which capacity he made several visits to France to make initial plans for organised cemeteries. The war had a profound effect...
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and High Harrogate, who died in the First World War. There are various elaborate memorials in the cemetery, dedicated to the town's worthies, such as Robert...
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List of ships named on the Tower Hill Memorial (category British military memorials and cemeteries)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorials commemorating 36,087 civilian merchant seamen who were lost at sea in the First and Second World Wars. During...
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Morobe Province (section World War II)
after their defeat at Bita Paka. On 6 August 1914, residents of the Protectorate were notified by proclamation that a state of war existed between Germany...
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