{"id":9496,"date":"2025-03-03T15:06:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T04:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.navalofficer.com.au\/?p=9496"},"modified":"2025-03-03T15:10:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T04:10:39","slug":"hmas-perth-i-memorial-formally-opened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.navalofficer.com.au\/hmas-perth-i-memorial-formally-opened\/","title":{"rendered":"HMAS Perth (I) Memorial formally opened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 1st March 2025, the memorial in Perth Western Australia to commemorate the loss of HMAS <em>Perth<\/em> (I) in the Battle of the Sunda Strait, together with USS <em>Houston<\/em>, was formally opened. It acknowledges those of the ship&#8217;s company who perished during the battle, those who survived and attempted to avoid capture, those who were captured, imprisoned and enslaved, those who died as prisoners of war, and those who finally returned to Australia or the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9498 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.navalofficer.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/54356691192_02879ef549_o-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"616\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.navalofficer.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/54356691192_02879ef549_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.navalofficer.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/54356691192_02879ef549_o-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.navalofficer.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/54356691192_02879ef549_o-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.navalofficer.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/54356691192_02879ef549_o-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.navalofficer.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/54356691192_02879ef549_o.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9497 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.navalofficer.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/54357572566_eae35f7af9_h-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.navalofficer.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/54357572566_eae35f7af9_h-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.navalofficer.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/54357572566_eae35f7af9_h-1024x622.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.navalofficer.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/54357572566_eae35f7af9_h-768x467.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.navalofficer.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/54357572566_eae35f7af9_h-1536x933.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.navalofficer.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/54357572566_eae35f7af9_h.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 1st March 2025, the memorial in Perth Western Australia to commemorate the loss of HMAS Perth (I) in the Battle of the Sunda Strait, together with USS Houston, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1821,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,46,57,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c50-maritime-museums","category-news","category-ran","category-s1-ships","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navalofficer.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navalofficer.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navalofficer.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navalofficer.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1821"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navalofficer.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9496"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.navalofficer.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9502,"href":"https:\/\/www.navalofficer.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496\/revisions\/9502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navalofficer.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navalofficer.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navalofficer.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}