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War Two Service
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PRIVATE
BAHR, ERIC JOHN
V220096
Service
Date of Birth
Place of Birth
Date of Enlistment
Place of Enlistment
Next of Kin
Date of Death
Postingon Death
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Australian Army
23 Jun 1919
JEPARIT, VIC
21 Jul 1941
MERINGUR, VIC
BAHR, JOHN
13 Aug 1945
7 Australian Infantry Battalion
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Information obtained from Australain
War Memorial
Copyright
Commonwealth of Australia 2002
Debt of Honour Register
In Memory of
ERIC JOHN BAHR
Private
V220096
A.C.M.F. 7 Bn., Australian Infantry
who died on
Monday 13 August 1945 . Age 26 .
Additional Information: Son of John Henry and Gertrude Hilda Bahr, of
Karween, Victoria.
Cemetery: PORT MORESBY (BOMANA) WAR CEMETERYPapua New Guinea
Grave or Reference Panel Number: B5. B. 18.
Location:
Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery lies approximately 19 kilometres north
of Port Moresby on the road to Nine Mile, and is approached from the main
road by a short side road called Pilgrims Way. Within the cemetery will
be found the Port Moresby Memorial. This memorial commemorates members
of the Australian Army (including Papuan and New Guinea local forces,
the Australian Merchant Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force who lost
their lives in the operations in Papua during the 1939-1945 war and who
have no known grave.
Historical Information:
After the landings at Lae and Salamaua, Port Moresby was the chief Japanese
objective. They decided to attack by sea, and assembled an amphibious
expedition for the purpose, which set out early in May 1942. They were,
however, intercepted and heavily defeated by American air and naval forces
in the Coral Sea, and what remained of the Japanese expedition returned
to Rabaul. After this defeat they decided to advance on Port Moresby overland
and the attack was launched from Buna and Gona in September 1942. On Bougainville,
the largest and most northerly of the Solomon Islands, the enemy, early
in 1942, established a considerable force almost without resistance and
developed a useful base. This they held until Americans and Australians
commenced offensive operations towards the end of 1943, when Bougainville
was the only one of these islands remaining in Japanese hands. By August
1945, when the Japanese surrendered, most of the island had been recovered.
Those who died in the fighting in Papua and Bougainville are buried in
Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, whither they were brought by the Australian
Army Graves Service from burial grounds in the areas where the fighting
had taken place. The unidentified soldiers of the United Kingdom forces
were all from the Royal Artillery and captured by the Japanese at the
fall of Singapore; they died in captivity and were buried on the island
of Bailale in the Solomons. These men were later re-buried in a temporary
war cemetery at Torokina on Bougainville Island before being transferred
to their permanent resting place at Port Moresby. On a hill above and
behind the cemetery, to the right of the centre, stands a rotunda of cylindrical
pillars which is the memorial to those men of the Australian Army (including
Papua and New Guinea local forces), the Australian Merchant Navy and the
Royal Australian Air Force who lost their lives in the operations in Papua
and who have no known graves. Men of the Royal Australian Navy who lost
their lives in the south-west Pacific region, and have no known grave
but the sea, are commemorated on Plymouth Naval Memorial in England, along
with many of their comrades of the Royal Navy and of other Commonwealth
Naval Forces. Bougainville casualties who have no known graves are commemorated
on a memorial at Suva.
In Memory of
Private ERIC JOHN BAHR
V220096, A.C.M.F. 7 Bn., Australian Infantry
who died age 26
on Monday 13 August 1945.
Private BAHR, Son of John Henry and Gertrude Hilda Bahr, of Karween, Victoria.
Remembered with honour
PORT MORESBY (BOMANA) WAR CEMETERY
Commemorated in perpetuity by
the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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