The Darwin post office on Smith and Knuckey Street was constructed by A L M Maddalozzo Ltd at a cost of £205,000. The original post office was destroyed during the Japanese air raid on 19 February 1942. Work commenced on the new, three-storey, air-conditioned building in 1959. It was completed in 1960.
The building contained a memorial to the ten postal workers who lost their lives during the 1942 bombings. The postal workers were the first Australians killed on Australian soil by the Japanese.
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References
- “Post Office, Darwin”. 1960 Web. 16 Sept. 2024. https://hdl.handle.net/10070/856642.