A large, roughly cut rock with a bronze plaque embedded, marks the 1942-1945 memorial to members ...

A large, roughly cut rock with a bronze plaque embedded, marks the 1942-1945 memorial to members of 2/22 Battalion. The memorial was unveiled on 16 September 1993. The battalion was sent to garrison Rabaul as the infantry unit in Lark Force, arriving in New Britain in March and April 1941. The battalion suffered the loss of 571 men either during the New Britain campaign or later as prisoners of war of the Japanese. Some were executed by the Japanese at Tol. On 22 June 1942 an estimated 845 POWs and 209 civilians embarked from Rabaul aboard the Japanese transport ship MV Montevideo Maru. The POWs were members of the No. 1 Independent Company, 2/22 Battalion and other units of Lark Force. Civilians included officials of the New Guinea Administration and missionaries. The ship sailed unescorted for Hainan Island. On 1 July 1942 all the prisoners died when the Montevideo Maru was torpedoed by a US Navy submarine, USS Sturgeon, off the coast of Luzon Island in the Philippines.

• A hewn slab of granite marks the memorial to members of 2/22 Battalion, in Queen Elizabeth II ...