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Occasional Paper 2: Operation DAMASK – HMA Ships BRISBANE and SYDNEY  

A.N. Other · May 15, 2025 ·

The following story was contributed by Hugh Hyland.  Hugh worked for the variously named Defence departments for over 50 years until retiring in December 2015.  He held numerous positions in ...

Occasional Paper 1: Battle of Australia Day Commemoration – Sydney 7 Sep 16

A.N. Other · May 15, 2025 ·

By Commander Rebecca Jeffcoat  RAN Distinguished Guests, Ladies andGentlemen First I would like to acknowledge the Gadigal people, the Traditional Custodians of this Land on which we are gathered, and ...

Occasional Paper 188: Highlights of RAN History: Two Busy Decades 1950 to 1970

A.N. Other · Nov 12, 2024 ·

RAN Guided Missile Destroyers (DDG) HMA Ships Hobart, Peth and Brisbane. RAN image

The following is adapted from the Royal Australian Navy News, 17 April 1970 edition, page 4. 1950 to 1960 From1950 onwards the post-war tempo Naval growth quickened. The outbreak of ...

Occasional Paper 185: Fiji Coup 1987 – RAN on the ground

A.N. Other · May 1, 2024 ·

By Commander David Jordan CSC RANR On 14 May 1987 the Military of Fiji took control of the country in a bloodless coup d’état. In response to the coup, the ...

HMS Hood and the Special Service Squadron in Australia 20 February 1924 to 20 April 1924

A.N. Other · Mar 6, 2024 ·

By Graeme Lunn John Brown and Company laid down the keel for a battlecruiser in September 1916 that would become the Royal Navy’s epitome of firepower, speed and grace during ...

The Secret of the Battle of Sunda Strait: Secret Japanese Ship Sunk by Friendly Fire

A.N. Other · Mar 6, 2024 ·

By Rohan Goyne The Battle of Sunda Strait is remembered for the loss of the allied cruisers USS Houston and HMAS Perth in a confused night action in the Sunda ...

A Non-Combatant at War: Palestine, Greece and Crete 1941 – Pt 1

A.N. Other · Mar 6, 2024 ·

Dr. Richmond Jeremy, OBE MB ChM FRCP FRACP 1899 – 1995 Notes made by Dr. Jeremy were transcribed and published in 1998 by his son Richmond Jeremy. With permission of ...

Captain Jack Bolton Newman RAN – The Grandfather of Information Warfare Officers and RAN Communications

A.N. Other · Mar 6, 2024 ·

By SBLT Cináed Finall RAN We are pleased to publish this essay, which was written in 2023 in support of the inaugural Information Warfare Officer Course dux award. Cináed joined ...

The Last National Serviceman – Part 3

A.N. Other · Mar 6, 2024 ·

Part II of this series appeared in the December 2023 edition of this magazine. By Robert Stephenson In 1952, after the acquisition of HMAS Sydney III, the Royal Navy lent ...

The Army’s Defence of Merchant Shipping 1939-45

A.N. Other · Mar 6, 2024 ·

By Adrian Rose  In 1644 the Duke of York and Albany’s Maritime Regiment of Foot was raised to protect the crews of Royal Navy warships from attack by French sharpshooters. ...

HMS Devonshire and King Haakon VII

A.N. Other · Mar 6, 2024 ·

By James (JO) Morrice It is with great sadness that we hear of the recent passing of our friend and comrade Captain JO Morrice RAN and trust this short article ...

Occasional Paper 182: Scriven Battery

A.N. Other · Mar 4, 2024 ·

By Vic Jeffery This paper was first published in the West Coast Bulletin- August September, October 2001 edition. Garden Island in Western Australia enjoys a rich military history and during ...

Occasional Paper 177: Australia’s First Tennis Match

A.N. Other · Jan 1, 2024 ·

Major Walter Wingfield

By Martin Linsley and Colin Randall. Sometime about now (late 2023 or early 2024) marks the 150th anniversary of someone playing the first game of tennis at some location in ...

Thelma’s Story and Recollections of Newcastle

A.N. Other · Dec 27, 2023 ·

Introduction When my wife first went to work at West Pennant Hills Public School in the early 1970s she met Thelma Tame, a slightly older colleague; the two became friends, ...

Yachties Piece: Lieutenant Peter Smith RANVR Rtd: A ‘Roy-Boy’ at War

A.N. Other · Dec 27, 2023 ·

By Dr Simon Smith AM FRHSV Dad, what did you do in the war? A question most baby boomers would have posed as they grew up and became conscious of ...

The Treloar Centre and Big Things in Store

A.N. Other · Dec 27, 2023 ·

The following report has been compiled by Mark Meredith, one of our members, following a recent visit to the Treloar Centre. The Australian War Memorial (AWM) has a conservation and ...

Rookwood

A.N. Other · Dec 16, 2023 ·

By Mark Bundy Thanks to Estelle Muspratt from the Office of Australian War Graves and Harry Johnston-Lord from the Friends of Rookwood, we have been able to provide the following ...

‘No Cloak, No Dagger’

A.N. Other · Dec 15, 2023 ·

By Tim Proust  This story was provided by Tim Proust of the Orbost & District Historical Society from an original unpublished family history prepared by his grandfather Walter Hugh Brooksbank. ...

The Last Naval National Serviceman – Part II

A.N. Other · Dec 15, 2023 ·

By Robert Stephenson  Part I of this series appeared in the September 2023 edition of this magazine. Since that issue the following information has come to light. With the outbreak ...

HMAS Forceful

A.N. Other · Dec 15, 2023 ·

The coal burning steam tug Forceful was built by Alexander Stephen & Sons of Govan in Scotland in 1925 for the Australian based shipping company MacDonald, Hamilton & Company (later ...

Exploring the Charms of the Historic Seaport of Williamstown, Victoria

A.N. Other · Sep 5, 2023 ·

Glenn Jones, the Executive Officer of the Seaworks Maritime Precinct, has kindly put together this invitation to our members who may care to visit or revisit Williamstown with its many ...

A War Artist’s Nude Painting

A.N. Other · Sep 5, 2023 ·

By Beryllouise Mitchell In 1999, after the 30 August ballot in East Timor (later Timor-Leste) that was to determine the territory’s future went drastically wrong, the United Nations sanctioned an ...

Queensland Mining meets First Sea Lord and Strikes Oil

A.N. Other · Sep 5, 2023 ·

Prepared from inspiration provided by our Queensland member and mining engineer Colin Randall. William Knox D’Arcy and John Arbuthnot Fisher both came from families with prominent distant relatives but they ...

The Last National Servicemen – Part I

A.N. Other · Sep 5, 2023 ·

By Robert Graham Stephenson – Official No 7662 (NS) This article has been taken from an original paper written by Robert Stephenson and published by the National Servicemen’s Association of ...

A Bar of Soap

A.N. Other · Sep 5, 2023 ·

By Walter Burroughs That fine old Aussie expression ‘I don’t know you from a bar of soap’ has now fallen out of favour as we move from the utilitarian bar ...

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