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The monument commemorates those who lost their lives in the battle between HMAS Sydney and German ship Kormoran during World War Two. The memorial features the plaques and names from the HMAS Sydney Wall of Remembrance which was originally located at the Carnavon War Memorial and unveiled on the 23rd November 1991. 

The most grievous loss suffered by the Royal Australian Navy occurred on 19 November 1941, when the cruiser HMAS Sydney was lost in action with the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran off the Western Australian coast. None of the Sydney's complement of 645 men survived. The Kormoran was also sunk in the action. On 17 March 2008 the Australian Government announced that the wreckage of both HMAS Sydney and the German raider Kormoran had been found, approximately 112 nautical miles off Steep Point, Western Australia. Kormoran is lying at a depth of 2,560 metres; Sydney, approximately 12 nautical miles away, is at 2,470 metres.

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