100 years since first Australian losses of the World War I commemorated at Rabaul

By Tim Barlass
Updated September 12 2014 - 10:08am, first published 10:04am
The dawn service in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, to commemorate 100 years since the first Australian losses of the World War I. Photo: Janie Barrett
The dawn service in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, to commemorate 100 years since the first Australian losses of the World War I. Photo: Janie Barrett
Schoolchildren who performed at the dawn service in Rabaul. Photo: Janie Barrett
Schoolchildren who performed at the dawn service in Rabaul. Photo: Janie Barrett
The dawn service in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, to commemorate 100 years since the first Australian losses of the World War I. Photo: Janie Barrett
The dawn service in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, to commemorate 100 years since the first Australian losses of the World War I. Photo: Janie Barrett
The dawn service in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, to commemorate 100 years since the first Australian losses of the World War I. Photo: Janie Barrett
The dawn service in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, to commemorate 100 years since the first Australian losses of the World War I. Photo: Janie Barrett
The dawn service in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, to commemorate 100 years since the first Australian losses of the World War I. Photo: Janie Barrett
The dawn service in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, to commemorate 100 years since the first Australian losses of the World War I. Photo: Janie Barrett
Schoolchildren who performed at the dawn service in Rabaul. Photo: Janie Barrett
Schoolchildren who performed at the dawn service in Rabaul. Photo: Janie Barrett
HMAS Yarra off Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, has been searching for  Australian submarine AE1 that disappeared in this vicinity on  September 14, 1914.  Photo: Janie Barrett
HMAS Yarra off Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, has been searching for Australian submarine AE1 that disappeared in this vicinity on September 14, 1914. Photo: Janie Barrett
HMAS Yarra off Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, has been searching for  Australian submarine AE1 that disappeared in this vicinity on  September 14, 1914.  Photo: Janie Barrett
HMAS Yarra off Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, has been searching for Australian submarine AE1 that disappeared in this vicinity on September 14, 1914. Photo: Janie Barrett
HMAS Yarra off Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, has been searching for  Australian submarine AE1 that disappeared in this vicinity on  September 14, 1914.  Photo: Janie Barrett
HMAS Yarra off Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, has been searching for Australian submarine AE1 that disappeared in this vicinity on September 14, 1914. Photo: Janie Barrett
The dawn service in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, to commemorate 100 years since the first Australian losses of the World War I. Photo: Janie Barrett
The dawn service in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, to commemorate 100 years since the first Australian losses of the World War I. Photo: Janie Barrett
Schoolchildren who performed at the dawn service in Rabaul. Photo: Janie Barrett
Schoolchildren who performed at the dawn service in Rabaul. Photo: Janie Barrett
The dawn service in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, to commemorate 100 years since the first Australian losses of the World War I. Photo: Janie Barrett
The dawn service in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, to commemorate 100 years since the first Australian losses of the World War I. Photo: Janie Barrett
HMAS Yarra off Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, has been searching for  Australian submarine AE1 that disappeared in this vicinity on  September 14, 1914.  Photo: Janie Barrett
HMAS Yarra off Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, has been searching for Australian submarine AE1 that disappeared in this vicinity on September 14, 1914. Photo: Janie Barrett
The dawn service in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, to commemorate 100 years since the first Australian losses of the World War I. Photo: Janie Barrett
The dawn service in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, to commemorate 100 years since the first Australian losses of the World War I. Photo: Janie Barrett
Schoolchildren who performed at the dawn service in Rabaul. Photo: Janie Barrett
Schoolchildren who performed at the dawn service in Rabaul. Photo: Janie Barrett
The dawn service in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, to commemorate 100 years since the first Australian losses of the World War I. Photo: Janie Barrett
The dawn service in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, to commemorate 100 years since the first Australian losses of the World War I. Photo: Janie Barrett
Remembrance at dawn: The service in Rabaul, PNG, to commemorate 100 years since the first Australian losses of World War I. Photo: Janie Barrett
Remembrance at dawn: The service in Rabaul, PNG, to commemorate 100 years since the first Australian losses of World War I. Photo: Janie Barrett

Bita Paka Cemetery, Papua New Guinea: It was a day that Australia remembered the first losses of World War I in a battle described by the Veterans' Affairs Minister on Thursday as "the untold story".

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