{"id":5332,"date":"2025-09-09T10:46:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=5332"},"modified":"2025-09-09T10:46:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:46:36","slug":"friday-september-5th-st-marys-geruhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=5332","title":{"rendered":"Friday September 5th St Mary’s Geruhu"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What a busy day! Visited St Mary\u2019s, Gerehu that has a bell donated by a Norfolk church.<\/p>\n

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A tour of the Port Moresby Nature Park.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Bomana War Graves Cemetery<\/a>\u00a0 is the final resting place of almost 3000 soldiers who held a force of Japanese trying to reach Port Moresby from the north along what is known as the Kakoda Trail.<\/p>\n

If the Japanese had been successful this would have been the launch point for an invasion of Australia.<\/p>\n

After the Japanese landed at Lae and Salamaua in March 1942, Port Moresby became their chief objective. They decided to attack by sea, and assembled an amphibious expedition for the purpose, which set out early in May, but they were intercepted and heavily defeated by American air and naval forces in the Coral Sea, and what remained of the Japanese expedition returned to Rabaul. After this defeat they decided to advance on Port Moresby overland and the attack was launched from Buna and Gona in September 1942.<\/p>\n

Early in 1942, and almost without resistance, the Japanese established a considerable force and developed a useful base on Bougainville, the largest and most northerly of the Solomon Islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a busy day! Visited St Mary\u2019s, Gerehu that has a bell donated by a Norfolk church. A tour of the Port Moresby Nature Park. The Bomana War Graves Cemetery\u00a0 is the final resting place of almost 3000 soldiers who held a force of Japanese trying to reach Port Moresby from the north along what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}