Address & Contact
31 Memorial Terrace
Adelaide River NT 0846
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The war
cemetery was taken over the Commonwealth War
Graves Commission (CWGC) in 1947. The
Adelaide River War
Cemetery was entered on the Register of the National Estate in 1984 and is also listed on the Northern Territory
Heritage Register and Commonwealth
Heritage Register.
A total of 434 war
graves marked by bronze plaques are contained in this
cemetery. The burials are made up of 14 airmen of the RAF, 12 unidentified men of the British Merchant Navy; one soldier of the Canadian Army; 18 sailors, 181 soldiers and 201 airmen of the Australian Forces and seven men of the Australian Merchant Navy. The Northern Territory Memorial to the Missing honours a further 292 Servicemen and women lost to the north of Australia. The adjacent civil section contains the
graves of the nine
Post Office staff killed on 19 February 1942 during the bombing of
Darwin, one of 63 separate occasions from that date. The civilian casualties of WW2 include those of 31 Indigenous Australians.
Website:
http://www.adelaideriverwargraves.com/