Bomana Cemetery video

Running time
38 sec

Bomana lies 19 kilometres from Port Moresby at the southern end of the Kokoda track.
The remains of 3779 Australians and their Allies rest at Bomana.

[Text: Bomana Cemetery.
A white marble headstone is engraved with the Rising Sun badge and the words:

"VX61264 Private. J.A. Ferguson. 2/14 Infantry Battalion. 29th August 1942, Age 22."

In the well-maintained cemetery thousands of identical headstones are arranged in long orderly rows.]

VOICEOVER: This is the grave of Private John Alan Ferguson of Dandenong Victoria. He was 22 years old when he was killed at Isurava on the 29 August 1942. He rests here with 3,778 others. The names of 237 of them are unknown.

Text: The Kokoda Track.
Exploring the site of the battle fought by Australians in World War II.
© Department of Veterans' Affairs, Australia 2010.
Music © Mark Douglas Williams 2010.]

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