War Memorials in Australia
Mossman Commemorative Air Raid Cairn
Place:
Mossman, Queensland, 4873
District:
Northern Tropical
Coast and Tablelands
Orientation: 102 km N of
Cairns
Location: Bamboo Creek Road
Position:
Ref: 40238
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The memorial is a cairn of large rocks
Metal plaque on
? face
JAPANESE AIR RAID ON
DOUGLAS SHIRE - 1942
At 3.30 a.m. on 31/7/42, a Japanese
aircraft
dropped eight bombs in this Shire, one landing
fifty metres directly behind this point. Carmel
Zullo aged 2 1/2 years was asleep in the home
of her parents when the bomb exploded nearby.
Shrapnel pierced the iron walls of the house,
one fragment grazing Carmel's skull. She was
the only civilian casualty inflicted by the enemy
on the Eastern Australian mainland throughout
World War 2.
This plaque was unveiled by Mrs.
Carmel Emmi
(nee Zullo) on 31/7/92 at a public ceremony to
commemorate the attack, fifty years later.
Information current to September 2004
Sources: The information and photograph on this page have been kindly provided by Peter Fox