NT Nomad - Darwin Cenotaph
Today, the Cenotaph overlooks the Darwin Harbour Wharf area, from where all men from the Territory left during the First World War. We take a look at its history with Lord Mayor Katrina Fong Lim.
Prince Charles pays tribute to fallen soldiers at Darwin Cenotaph
Prince Charles has paid tribute to fallen soldiers by laying a wreath at the Darwin Cenotaph on the final day of his official visit to Australia.
DARWIN HISTORY NT NORTHERN TERRITORY pt 2 OF 2
caravan trip 2007 The Aboriginal people of the Larrakia language group are the first inhabitants of the greater Darwin area The first British person to see Darwin harbour appears to have been Lieutenant John Lort Stokes of HMS Beagle on 9 September 1839. The ship's captain, Commander John Clements Wickham, named the port after Charles Darwin, the British naturalist who had sailed with them both on the earlier second expedition of the Beagle. The Northern Territory was initially settled and administered by South Australia, until its transfer to the Commonwealth in 1911. On 5 February 1869, George Goyder, the Surveyor-General of South Australia, established a small settlement of 135 people at Port Darwin. Goyder named the settlement Palmerston, after the British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston. In 1870, the first poles for the Overland Telegraph were erected in Darwin, connecting Australia to the rest of the world. The discovery of gold at Pine Creek in the 1880s further boosted the young colony's development. Upon Commonwealth administration in 1911, Darwin became the city's official name. The period between 1911 and 1919 was filled with Around 10,000 Allied troops arrived in Darwin in the early 1940s at the outset of World War II, in order to defend Australia's northern coastline. On 19 February 1942 at 0957, 188 Japanese warplanes attacked Darwin in two waves. It was the same fleet that had bombed Pearl Harbor, though a considerably larger number of bombs were dropped on Darwin, than on Pearl Harbor. The attack killed at least 243 people and caused immense damage to the town. These were by far the most serious attacks on Australia in time of war, in terms of fatalities and damage. They were the first of many raids on Darwin. Despite this major attack, Darwin's development was furthered considerably during the war, with sealed roads constructed connecting the region to Alice Springs in the south and Mount Isa in the south-east, and Manton Dam built in the south to provide the city with water. wiKIpedia
Prince Harry is on his way to Darwin
Travel suggestions or hopes for a date... the Northern Territory is preparing for Prince Harry's arrival to Darwin next month.
He'll be joining the Australian Army for a challenging program involving training and meeting Indigenous communities.
Aired on 7PM News in Darwin
The Bombing Of Darwin - 19 Feb 1942 - YouTube Video
The Bombing of Darwin in 1942 (19 Feb). YouTube video commemorating the air raids over Darwin in the NT.
The following information comes from Wikipedia - The bombing of Darwin on 19 February 1942 was both the first and the largest single attack mounted by a foreign power against Australia. On this day, 242 Japanese aircraft attacked ships in Darwin's harbour and the town's two airfields in an attempt to prevent the Allies from using them as bases to contest the invasions of Timor and Java. The town was only lightly defended, and the Japanese inflicted heavy losses upon the Allied forces at little cost to themselves. The urban areas of Darwin also suffered some damage from the air raids, and there were a number of civilian casualties.
A greater number of bombs were dropped on Darwin than were used in the attack on Pearl Harbor. The air raids on Darwin represented a psychological blow to the Australian population, several weeks after hostilities with Japan had begun. The air raids were the first and largest of almost 100 air raids against Australia.
In 1942, Darwin was a small town with limited civil and military infrastructure. Due to its strategic position in northern Australia the Royal Australian Navy and Royal Australian Air Force had constructed bases near the town in the 1930s and early years of WW2. Darwin's pre-war population was 5,800.
Following the outbreak of the Pacific War in early December 1941, Darwin's defences were strengthened. In line with plans developed before the war, several Australian Army and RAAF units stationed in the town were also sent to the Netherlands East Indies to strengthen the defences of the islands of Ambon and Timor. In the two months before the air raids, all but 2,000 civilians were evacuated from the town. Japanese submarines I-121 and I123 laid mines off Darwin in January 1942.
By mid-February 1942 Darwin had become an important Allied base (included American, British and Canadian forces) for the defence of the NEI. The Japanese had captured Ambon, Borneo and Celebes between December 1941 and early-February 1942. Landings on Timor were scheduled for 20 February, and an invasion of Java was planned to take place shortly afterwards. In order to protect these landings from Allied interference, the Japanese military command decided to conduct a major air raid on Darwin. On 10 February a Japanese reconnaissance aircraft overflew the town, and identified an aircraft carrier (actually the seaplane tender USS Langley), five destroyers and 21 merchant ships in Darwin Harbour as well as 30 aircraft at the town's two airfields.
After the massive 19 February 1942 Japanese raid, the Northern Territory and parts of Western Australia's north were bombed 62 more times between 4 March 1942 and 12 November 1943. One of the heaviest attacks took place on 16 June 1942 when a large Japanese force set fire to the oil fuel tanks around the harbour and inflicted severe damage to the vacant banks, stores and railway yards. The Allied navies largely abandoned the naval base at Darwin after the initial 19 February attack, dispersing most of their forces to Brisbane, Fremantle and other smaller ports. Conversely, Allied air commanders launched a major build-up in the Darwin area, building more airfields and deploying many squadrons.
The four Japanese aircraft carriers (Akagi, Kaga, Hiryu and Soryu) that participated in the Bombing of Darwin were later sunk during the Battle of Midway in June 1942. A memorial ceremony is held every year on 19 February at the Cenotaph in Darwin. (END)
2012 marks the 70th year anniversary of the bombing of Darwin.
Australians fought heroically to defend Australia in Darwin and places like the Kokoda Track. Our country had its back to the wall during this time, fighting against a very formidable enemy. When it comes to courage, mateship and sacrifice, you will not find any better example than the Australians who gave their all to save Australia and their loved ones on our mainland. If one is looking for the true character of the Australian spirit, it would be at the graves of Australians who died to our North during WW2. To stand on my homeland, surrounded by our war dead, who fought heroically to defend Australia and their loved ones down the track, was a profound experience and initiated the creation of the song. - Peter Barnes
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Darwin bombing during WW2.
Bombing of Darwin 19 Feb 1942.
SPECIAL TRAVEL EVENTS JAPAN'S PRIME MINISTER Visits Darwin, Australia | Nicklyn Christensen
Prime Minister of Japan 2018 Shinzō Abe pays respect to Darwin Heroes in Cenotaph , Esplanade. Where history the Bombing of Darwin claimed to be worst that The Pearl Harbour.
Along with Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
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Prince Charles pays tribute to fallen soldiers at Darwin Cenotaph
Prince Charles has paid tribute to fallen soldiers at the Darwin Cenotaph in Australia as part of his tour of the country for the Commonwealth games
Charles Darwin, Evolution and Tropical Australia
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70th Anniversary of the Bombing of Darwin
Formal commemorative service for the Bombing of Darwin at The Cenotaph on the Esplanade, Darwin City, Northern Territory, Sunday 19 February 2012.
NT soldier added to Rememberance Day honour roll
Territorians have come together at the Darwin Cenotaph to commemorate the end of World War I and pay tribute to diggers who were killed in battle.
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World War II memorial overlooking Darwin Harbor
Prince Charles to visit Arnhem Land, Darwin during NT visit
Prince Charles to visit Arnhem Land, Darwin during NT visit
Darwin 21 Gun Salute - Queens Birthday Celebrations
8/12 Regiment Royal Australian Artillery fire a 21 Gun Salute for the Queens Birthday celebrations 10 June 2017 at the Cenotaph, Darwin Esplanade
NT Statehood Champion - Katrina Fong Lim
Katrina Fong Lim supports the Northern Territory of Australia becoming a State.
Bombing of Darwin
The Bombing of Darwin, also known as the Battle of Darwin, on 19 February 1942 was both the first and the largest single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia. On that day, 242 Japanese aircraft attacked ships in Darwin's harbour and the town's two airfields in an attempt to prevent the Allies from using them as bases to contest the invasions of Timor and Java. The town was only lightly defended and the Japanese inflicted heavy losses upon the Allied forces at little cost to themselves. The urban areas of Darwin also suffered some damage from the raids and there were a number of civilian casualties.
The raids were the first and largest of almost 100 air raids against Australia during 1942–43.
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Darwin Harbour Sunset 8-Sep-12
Darwin Sunset, 50 minutes into 30 seconds, taken from Cenotaph, taken on GoPro Hero HD2
Wearry Dunlop - ANZAC Day Melbourne 1989 - The last of the WW1 & WW2 Diggers
Our family have taken part in the ANZAC Day Dawn Service and the Melbourne ANZAC Day march since 1983.
Bombing of Darwin Day 2015
Interviews Peary Gun: Rick Setter - President Australian American Association Northern Territory
Interview Peary Gun: Kimberly Furnish - US Consul
Various shots Bombing of Darwin Day. Re-enactment
Ingterview Cenptaph: Katrina Fong-Lim - Lord Mayor of Darwin
Various shots layeing Wreaths including Japanese people
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Interview Cenotaph: Peter Styles - NT Cabinet Minister, Asian Engagement and Trade, Multicultural Affairs
Interview Cenotaph: Anthony & Akane (Australian & Japanese)
Overlay Anthony & Akane TSCHIRPIG (with Tyoshi 5 Months Old)
3 shot Sachi Hirayam (Japanese Territorian) Masato Takaoka (Consul-General) Willem Rudolf Westra van Holthe (Deputy Chief Minister)
Interview NT Parliament House: Masato Takaoka (Consul-General)
Interview Cenotaph: Sachi Hirayam (Japanese Territorian)
Various shots Sachi Hirayam (Japanese Territorian) on Cenotaph
Walking Wounded founder accused of wasting veterans' charity money on adventures
Some Afghanistan war veterans and families of soldiers who died there have accused the founder of a veterans' charity of spending thousands of dollars on funding treks and adventures, instead of helping soldiers in need of professional counselling and rehabilitation.
According to its website, Walking Wounded was set up to assist in the psychological rehabilitation and recovery of returned Australian soldiers.
It says its primary objective is to intervene and prevent the concerning incidences of suicide in the young veteran community through counselling and other support.
The charity also took veterans and families of soldiers who died in Afghanistan on treks along the Kokoda Trail.
We see the physical wounds, we see the amputations and the disfigurations but it's the mental scars of war that are far more debilitating, Walking Wounded's founder Brian Freeman told the ABC in 2015.
Mr Freeman promotes himself as a former special forces officer and arguably Australia's greatest ever adventurer.
In late 2014, he wrote to the father of a soldier who died in Afghanistan to say he had the intent of raising $5m to support our young wounded Australian soldiers.
Pam and Ray Palmer's son Scott was a member of Australia's 2nd Commando Regiment who was killed in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province in 2010 in a helicopter crash.
The Palmers first met Mr Freeman in 2011, well before Walking Wounded was established and awarded charity status from 2014.
They agreed to help Mr Freeman raise money for the charity, and they eventually contributed more than $70,000.
The original thing that we all discussed at the meeting when Walking Wounded was first designed and spoken about over the table in Brisbane, was the fact that it was going to assist in getting specialists involved. People that could come in, physios and so forth, like that, to help the boys with their injuries, Ms Palmer told 7.30.
The Palmers, who lives in Darwin, were devastated when they learnt the charity had been shut down early last year.
It's hurt us because we've been involved for so long, Ms Palmer said.
[Other families have] gone out of their way for fundraising as well, and they've done a lot … no-one knows where the money went.
The parents of another soldier killed in Afghanistan raised their concerns about Walking Wounded with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) in 2016.
One-time supporters of the charity, they claimed to the ACNC that Mr Freeman was capitalising on the misfortune of families of the fallen and wounded soldiers.
We know of no assistance provided by Walking Wounded for the rehabilitation and re-education of any former Australian Soldiers who have suffered, either physically or mentally, through their time in the service, they wrote in the submission to the regulator.
7.30 can reveal that there was another complaint about the charity that year to the ACNC, which alleged that not one veteran has been assisted in any form through donations raised for counselling, work-placement and rehabilitation by Walking Wounded and Mr Freeman.
But in an email to 7.30, Mr Freeman unequivocally denied he had not helped any veterans, saying Walking Wounded has helped many.
After an investigation, the ACNC revoked Walking Wounded's charity status in early 2017.
But the ACNC has refused to reveal why, saying it was bound by strict secrecy provisions.
Ray Palmer wants to know where the money, including the $70,000 he and his wife Pam raised, went.
I honestly don't know, he said.
The money we collected here Pam transferred electronically to Walking Wounded's account.
Where that money went after that, either banks know or the taxation department knows. They must know.
His website also reveals that Mr Freeman still has the Roll of Honour containing the names of the Afghanistan fallen that was given to him by the Australian War Memorial.
The War Memorial said a replacement cylinder was provided in February 2017, the same month Walking Wounded had its charity status revoked.
Ray Palmer said Mr Freeman should return the Roll of Honour now that Walking Wounded has been shut down.
He's using it for something that's absolutely disgraceful, Mr Palmer said.
[By ABC Investigations' Mark Willacy and Alexandra Blucher]
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Anzac Parade Toowoomba 2016
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