Office of Australian War Graves - Australian War Cemeteries EG Sydney: Sydney, New South Wales Located within the Rookwood Necropolis, Sydney War Cemetery is Australia’s largest war cemetery and the only Australian war cemetery that has a Stone of Remembrance. This stone was to be transported to Ambon War Cemetery in Indonesia, however difficulties at the time prevented its shipment. The Sydney War Cemetery contains 734 war graves, made up of 122 casualties of the UK Forces; 608 Australian Forces; 2 New Zealand Forces; one French sailor and one civilian (employed by the Admiralty). The Memorial to the Missing honours 741 dead, and a further 199 names of men and women of the Armed Forces whose remains were cremated and appear on the Cremation Memorial. In 1942 the military authorities established the cemetery as the last resting-place of Servicemen and Servicewomen who gave their lives during World War II. The cemetery was taken over by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in December 1946 and was entered on the Register of the National Estate on 21 October 1986. Many of those contained within the cemetery died in the Concord Military Hospital of wounds received in operational areas, sickness or accident. The United Kingdom Forces casualties died while prisoners-of-war under the Japanese and were cremated. After the war the Army Graves Service arranged for their ashes to be brought by HMAS Newfoundland to Sydney for interment. <table summary="Images of Australian War Cemeteries" border="0" width="70%"> <tbody><tr> <td><center> </center></td></tr></tbody></table>
