Adelaide River Wartime Civilian Cemetery

You must do this

We visited the Australian war cemetery at Adelaide River – the edge of the declared WW2 war zone, when the Japanese airforce attacked Darwin in 1942. It was a sombre and humbling experience to walk b...

Great memorial worth a visit

What an amazing find. This cemetery is very well kept and includes 434 burials along with some civilians that were killed in the Darwin bombings. Informative signs and a short TV presentation. Gardens...

They shall not grow old ....

A very well kept cemetery reminding us of the efforts made by so many people in order that we might appreciate being alive today. Visited 2019

Informative place

It seems rather odd to give a war memorial a high score as a tourist attraction but this is a well maintained cemetery for those who died during the Japanese bombing of Darwin. On the day we arrived, ...

Immaculate cemetary and informative moving experience

A very well tended cemetery, an oasis in the bush. Informative displays and the whole experience very moving - such loss of young lives..