点评:I feel you can't visit the Japanese War Cemetery without visiting the War Cemetery. To note the Japanese War Cemetery is behind it. They are side by side -which in itself is a beautiful thing for healing.
The War Cemetery contains 27 war graves from WW2, comprising 26 Australian soldiers and one member of the Royal Air Force.
IN 1940, a major infantry training base was established at Cowra providing reinforcements for the 2nd A.I.F. Cowra was also the location of No.12 POW Compound and it was there that 1, 104 Japanese POW's launched a mass breakout on 5 August, 1944. Although the Australian Military Guards were able to contain the escape attempt, four Australian soldiers and 234 Japanese POW's were killed.
The Australian dead lie in this war cemetery and the graves of the Japanese in the adjacent Japanese War Cemetery, among those of other Japanese war dead and civilian internees.
The Japanese War Cemetery is humbly done... beautiful and simple. I was shocked to see some of the ages listed as young as ten months.
H.I.H Prince Yoshihito planted a tree in this cemetery in October, 1982. He was a member of the Imperial House of Japan and the second son of Takahito, Prince Mikasa and Yuriko, Princess Mikasa. He was a first cousin of Emperor Akihito. Originally known as Prince Yoshihito of Mikasa, he received the title Prince Katsura (Katsura-no-miya) and authorization to start a new branch of the Imperial Family on 1 January 1988 at age 39. In 1982, the Prince returned to Australia as part of the Japanese delegation in honor of the tenth anniversary of the Australia-Japan Society.
翻译:我觉得参观日本战争公墓就不能不去战争公墓。值得一提的是,日本战争公墓就在它后面。它们并排而立——这本身就是一种疗伤的美好体验。
战争公墓内有27座二战时期的战争公墓,其中包括26名澳大利亚士兵和1名皇家空军成员。
1940年,考拉建立了一个大型步兵训练基地,为第二澳大利亚空军提供增援。考拉也是第12号战俘营的所在地,1944年8月5日,1104名日本战俘在那里发动了大规模越狱。尽管澳大利亚军事警卫队成功阻止了越狱,但4名澳大利亚士兵和234名日本战俘仍然阵亡。
澳大利亚阵亡者安葬在这座战争公墓,毗邻的日本战争公墓中还有日本人的坟墓,以及其他日本战争死难者和平民被拘留者的坟墓。
日本战争公墓设计得朴实无华……美观而简洁。看到一些墓碑上刻着的年龄最小的只有十个月,我感到很震惊。
宫内义仁亲王于1982年10月在这座公墓里种了一棵树。他是日本皇室成员,三笠宫隆仁亲王和三笠宫百合子的次子。他是明仁天皇的堂兄。他原名三笠义仁亲王,1988年1月1日,39岁的他被封为桂宫亲王(Katsura-no-miya),并被授权在皇室中建立一个新的分支。1982年,亲王作为日本代表团成员返回澳大利亚,庆祝澳大利亚-日本协会成立十周年。