WWII Memorial Park (Nana Police Barracks)

P.O. Box 63
Honiara, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

Located adjacent to the Solomon Islands National Museum. There is a collection of memorials and display on the property located between the museum and police station. This is part of the museum, but accessible only thru the Police Station gate.
  Japanese 150mm Type 96 (1936) Serial Number 134

Allied WWII Memorial
Click For EnlargementStone pillar with cross, dedicated in 1967 by the USMC. It contains additional plaques dedicated later on the same memorial. They include a plaque by the Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC)., Commonwealth Memorial, New Zealand 3 Army Division, and 6th Marine Division Association Plaque

Kawaguchi Brigade Memorial
Click For EnlargementDedicated September 1993 by the Honiara Association / Fukuoku Japan. The memorial has a Japanese language panel, and a English panel reads: "During 6 months since the end of August of 1942, at the south far out from our fatherland, under offensive by the supperior Allied forces, had not the ammunitions for firing also had not the rations for eating, there were the misery beyond the limitations as could not say, those who died the victim: 3,179 soldiers of the Kawaguchi Brigade we dedicate the monument of repose for their soul, may sleep in peaceable. September 1993 Honiara Associatin / Fukuoka Japan."

 


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