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Rockingham Naval Memorial Park
Naval memorial in Western Australia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rockingham Naval Memorial Park is a military memorial in the City of Rockingham, Western Australia, dedicated to the Royal Australian Navy.[1][2] It contains a number of commemorative plaques, a 110-millimetre (4.5 in) gun turret from HMAS Derwent and a submarine fin from HMAS Orion.
Rockingham Naval Memorial Park | |
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Australia | |
![]() Looking south from the entrance of the memorial | |
For World War IIKorean WarVietnam War | |
Established | January 24, 1996 (1996-01-24) |
Location | 32.2622°S 115.7453°E / -32.2622; 115.7453 |
Statistics source: monumentaustralia.org.au |
The memorial was dedicated on 24 January 1996 by the mayor of the City of Rockingham, F. W. Gardiner. The project was jointly-funded by the City of Rockingham, the Australian federal government, the Western Australian state government and the Naval Association of Australia.[1]
Apart from the Rockingham Naval Memorial Park, there are two other war memorials in Rockingham, the Rockingham War Memorial[3] and a commemoration of the Z Special Unit,[4] supplemented by a collection of plaques for individual vessels mounted on the Palm Beach Jetty.