The Sandakan Memorial Park is adjacent to the site of the original Sandakan prisoner of war (POW) camp. For the visitor, the story of Sandakan is revealed at several memorial and interpretive stations around the park. This booklet has been designed to allow visitors to explore the park at their own pace. It contains information about the Sandakan POW camp, war relics used by the prisoners and important points of interest that convey the experiences of Sandakan POWs. Numbered posts on the ground correspond to the numbered information in this booklet.

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Following the end of the Gallipoli campaign, April– December 1915, the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) began to move to France in March 1916. The 1st and 2nd Divisions were in trenches near Armentiéres by April and the 4th and 5th Divisions joined them in June. Meanwhile, the other Division, the 3rd, was being formed in England. All five were to see much action on the Western Front.

Many Australians travelling abroad visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission war cemeteries where Australian Service personnel are buried or commemorated. However, few of the 70 Commission war cemeteries, scattered throughout Australia, attract similar interest among Australians at home. These cemeteries, which range in size from several hectares to small plots, are comparable with any found throughout the world. In Australia, the Office of Australian War Graves maintains 11,651 war graves. Of these, approximately half are in war cemeteries and the remainder are distributed among some 900 civil cemeteries throughout the nation. There are also memorials to 1,033 missing personnel...

2015 Gallipoli Anzac Day Commemorative Services Booklet, including the Orders of Service for the Dawn Service, Lone Pine Australian Service and Chunuk Bair New Zealand Service.

Australia, as a member nation of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission conferred official commemoration upon Service personnel who died during the two World Wars. Official commemoration is also provided for Service personnel who die in subsequent conflicts and those whose post-war deaths are determined by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to have been related to war service. Official commemoration can be provided at an interment site, crematorium niche or in a Garden of Remembrance...

This memorial is a lasting tribute to those Australians who lost their lives in defending those values which are the foundation of the democracy and freedom shared and cherished by Australia and the United Kingdom. It epitomises the struggle to ensure that the citizens of both our countries, and of the world, could enjoy peace and security...

’The Battle of the Somme’ started on 1 July 1916. To reinforce its army, the Germans began to bring troops from other fronts. When battalions from Lille were reported entraining for the Somme, the British devised ‘an attack at Fromelles’ which would, they hoped, persuade the Germans to keep their men there. The task was given to the XI British Corps which brought together the 61st British Division and the 5th Australian Division for the attack. Both were inexperienced, the Australians having arrived 29 June and the British a month earlier...

The defence of Northern Australia Adelaide River War Cemetery brochure coverBy late 1941, Darwin and the Northern Territory were assuming a role as a strategic base for defence forces and this role increased with the entry of Japan into the Second World War on 7 December 1941. By early 1942 the Territory was used for deploying American and Allied forces to the Dutch East Indies (now known as Indonesia). American bombers operated from Batchelor and US artillery units were bolstered by various units of the Australian Army. The Royal Australian Navy increased its presence and was instrumental in sinking a Japanese submarine north of Darwin on 20 December 1941...........

The Office of Australian War Graves (OAWG) is part of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs. It has three distinct roles: to maintain war cemeteries and individual war graves within Australia and the region, as agents of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission; to officially commemorate eligible veterans who have died post-war and whose deaths are accepted as being caused by war service; to provide and maintain national memorials overseas... Official commemoration of eligible Veterans The authority for the post-war commemoration of veterans whose deaths are accepted as due to war related causes is a War Cabinet Decision of 10 March 1922. Successive governments have reaffirmed their commitment to official commemoration...