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Lae War Cemetery, Lae has gained tremendous importance in Papua New Guinea as a tourist spot which highlights the strategic political and historical role that were played by the island during the World War II. The Lae War Cemetery, Lae is also a landmark for its humanitarian emphasis, as well as a tribute to those innumerable soldiers who lost their lives during the Papua New Guinea campaign.

The Lae War Cemetery, Lae started by the Australian Army Graves Service during the year 1944 was eventually handed over to the Commonwealth commission in 1947. The Lae War Cemetery in Lae has the graves of several soldiers which were brought from their temporary shift in the military places where the actual fighting took place. Among others, there were several Indian casualties reported who had participated in the war and were people from the then undivided India. They were mainly prisoners of war taken during the battle of Hong Kong and Malaya. The tourist will be astounded by the enormity of the casualties in the war considering there are more than 2,818 Commonwealth burials in Lae War Cemetery alone. Of these, 300 officers and soldiers belonged to the Australian joint forces, the Army, Merchant Navy and the Air force and contain no known grave excepting the sea.

The Lae War Cemetery, Lae is a major World War II cemetery, containing the buried remains of soldiers as diverse in their national identity as Australia, Great Britain, India, and the Papua New Guinea who are now collectively laid in the final common resting place. The grounds of the cemetery are very tranquil encompassed by the tropical greenery of the surrounding tourist spot of the Botanical Gardens.

There are many unidentified graves amounting to about 444 in the Lae War Cemetery, Lae. These had been recovered between the airfields of Wewak and But, during fighting with the Japanese forces which had enjoyed a major advantage in the air and had targeted Lae and the surrounding airfields for intermittent bombings. The visiting of the Lae War cemetery will constitute a major emotional moment for the tourist during his Lae Tour which down the memory lane will relive some of the fatal moments of history.

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LAE WAR CEMETERY was commenced in 1944 by the Australian Army Graves Service and handed over to the Commission in 1947. It contains the graves of men who lost their lives during the New Guinea campaign whose graves were brought here from the temporary military cemeteries in areas where the fighting took place. The Indian casualties were soldiers of the army of undivided India who had been taken prisoner during the fighting in Malaya and Hong Kong. The great majority of the unidentified were recovered between But airfield and Wewak, where they had died while employed in working parties. Of the two men belonging to the army of the United Kingdom, one was attached to 219th Australian Infantry Battalion and the other was a member of the Hong Kong-Singapore Royal Artillery. The naval casualties were killed, or died of injuries received, on H.M. Ships King George V, Glenearn and Empire Arquebus, and the four men of the Merchant Navy were killed when the S.S. Gorgon was bombed and damaged in Milne Bay in April 1943.

The cemetery contains 2,818 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 444 of them unidentified.

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