The Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial was dedicated at the Ballarat Botanical Gardens by the Chief of the Defence Force (General Peter Cosgrove, AO, MC). Among the 35,000 names on the memorial are those of men from the Australian submarine AE2 (sunk during WWI), HMAS PERTH, (sunk at the Battle of Sunda Strait in 1942), and naval personnel captured while serving in Merchant ships.
Australian Naval History on 6 February 2004
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