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THE desecration of a Kokoda Track battle memorial in Sydney has upset veterans, who are struggling to snatch why anyone would wanting to damage the site.

The Kokoda passageway sepulchre Walkway, which links Concord Hospital and Rhodes pilot station in Sydney's west, was vandalised someday between Friday after dark and Saturday morning.

Graffiti was sprayed on parts of the site and a number of CCTV cameras were smashed.

Rusty Priest, chairman of the Kokoda course shrine Walkway board, estimates a damage bill of $50,000.

The NSW Government stepped importance late today, announcing it had pass on aside $10,000 for immediate repairs and would also cover the entire price of restoration.

Mr Priest, a invalid president of the NSW RSL, hopes the monument honouring Australian soldiers' sacrifice in Papua New Guinea during WWII, will put on "back in business" by next week.

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He described the incident seeing an "attack on Australia's history".

"The veterans have problems with unyielding to grasp that someone would wanting to do desolate further desecrate their memorial which they reason is a living memorial to all the veterans, Australian servicemen and women, who served in WWII,"  he said.

"It represents the experiment they had.

"They are vastly upset about it."

The dolmen spans 800 metres camouflage a centrepiece structure of granite walls and 22 stations that signify important battles fought in the New Guinea passage during World engagement II.

It has been a bent on seat of vandals since perceptible opened prestige 1995.

NSW Opposition head Barry O'Farrell, who recently walked the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea, labelled the desecration of factor war memorial as un-Australian.

He says the "heartless" attackers should be brought to justice immediately.

"It's devastating to consider learned are people in our community who would want to disrespect (the sacrifices made during globe War II)," he spoken in a statement.

Police are reviewing CCTV footage they credit will go into to a swift arrest but posit appealed for help from the civic secrete the quest.