Graves of Australian soldiers of the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) ...

Accession Number J01877
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half-plate negative
Maker Unknown
Place made Pacific Islands: Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Gazelle Peninsula, Rabaul Area, Rabaul
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

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Description

Graves of Australian soldiers of the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) killed in action at the landing at Kabakaul in 1914. The original burial place of Williams and Street was at Herbertshohe, reinterred in another cemetery at Herbertshohe around c 1915-1916 and in 1919 they were reinterred in the Rabaul military cemetery. Note: Postwar c 1950 these graves were transferred to Rabaul (Bita Paka) War Cemetery. The identified graves are from left to right: 419 Able Seaman (AB) Henry William Street, who died on 11 September 1914, aged 31 years; 294 AB William G V Williams, who died on 11 September 1914, aged 29 years: and 45 AB John Courtney, who died on 11 September 1914 aged 29 years. AB Williams was the first recorded Australian casualty of the First World War.

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