The Queen’s Commendation was awarded to the following personnel of the RAN’s Clearance Diving Teams for rendering safe, and later destroying, a World War II mine, washed ashore in a heavily populated area at Surfers Paradise, QLD. LCDR B. J. Hamill, RAN; LCDR N. O. Vidgen, RANVR; CPO J. F. C. Dollar;AB Clearance Divers:- P. J. Turley, P. C. Kember, A. L. Ingham.