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A three light stained glass window commemorates those missionaries who, in full knowledge of the danger, stayed with their New Guinean people rather than take the option to return to Australia and safety during World War Two.
In Anglican terminology the New Guinea Martyrs were eight Anglican clergy, teachers and medical missionaries killed by the Japanese in 1942. The Anglican Bishop of New Guinea (then a diocese of the ecclesiastical Province of Queensland) Philip Strong having instructed Anglican missionaries to remain at their posts despite the Japanese invasion. Three hundred thirty-three church workers of various denominations were killed during the Japanese occupation of New Guinea in World War Two.
Location
| Address: | 15 Gisborne Street, St Peters Eastern Hill, East Melbourne, 3002 |
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| State: | VIC |
| Area: | AUS |
| GPS Coordinates: | Lat: -37.80975 Long: 144.975221 Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate. |
Details
| Monument Type: | Window |
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| Monument Theme: | Conflict |
| Sub-Theme: | WW2 |
| Actual Event Start Date: | 03-September-1939 |
| Actual Event End Date: | 15-August-1945 |
| Designer: | Mervyn Napier Waller |
Dedication
| Approx. Monument Dedication Date: | 1947 |
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Dogara
Martyrdom in Papua
The Good Shepherd give his life for the sheep. St. John 10:11
(Left Pane)
Nangara
Buna Isivita
To commemorate the missionaries martyred in New Guinea 1942
(Right Pane)
Buna Beach
They knowing full well the risk, elected to stay with their flock
