Bronze plaque mounted on a marble plinth. Below which are displayed the three badges of the services: RAN, Rising Sun, RAAF. The memorial is dedicated to the 2165 individuals who inflicted the first defeat on the Japanese at Milne Bay, between July 1942 and January 1943. In additon, it commemorates other who served and died in other battles in the South-West Pacific between 1942 and 1945.