Places - Memorials | New Britain - Bita Paka Cemetery

This peaceful and beautiful cemetery contains the graves of over 1000 Allied war dead and The Rabaul Memorial commemorating those who have no known grave. The cemetery is maintained by the Office of Australian War Graves, Department of Veterans' Affairs, on behalf of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

The cemetery is located near the site of the first Australian action of World War I when the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force captured a German wireless station on 11 September 1914.

Each grave is marked by a bronze plaque set on a low concrete pedestal with 500 marked 'Known to God'. As well as Australians, the cemetery contains the graves of Indian and British prisoners of war who were transported to New Britain by the Japanese as a labour force.

• The Rabaul Memorial, Bita Paka Cemetery - Located in Bita Paka Cemetery, The Rabaul Memorial commemorates those who fell in the New Britain and New Ireland field of operations in the Second World War who have no known grave.