Sydney War Memorial, Rookwood

Sydney War Cemetery
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Memorial Name
Sydney War Memorial, Rookwood
Address

Memorial Avenue, Rookwood NSW 2141

Memorial Type
Column
Conflicts
Second World War, 1939–45
Accessibility
Public

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Sydney, NSW, 1943. Starboard bow view of the hospital ship Centaur.
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Private Alan Thomas Adams, Australian Army Service Corps, att’d 2/12th Field Ambulance

Alan Adams was born in St Peters, Sydney, on 4 April 1913 to Albert and Florence Adams. He grew up and attended school in Newtown. By the Second World War, he

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