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Letter Writer

Letter: Victoria Crosses awarded to Civilians

Letter Writer · Jun 6, 2019 ·

The topic of Victoria Crosses (March 2019) never ceases to arouse interest and we have two similar emails from Ken Green and Tony Maskell who invite us to visit the ...

Letter: They Also Served– LCDR Frank Derek Simon RD RANR (S)

Letter Writer · Jun 6, 2019 ·

  Mike Turner says he found the article on Frank Simon (March 2019) most interesting, particularly the Merchant/RANR(S) overlap. However, one small error is noted on page 22: It is ...

Letter: HMS Shropshire and Rex the mascot

Letter Writer · Mar 26, 2019 ·

The following email was recently received by our Research desk with a photograph of a handsome canine nattily decked out as a Leading Seaman Gunner with two Good Conduct Badges. ...

Letter: Recollection of an Admiral’s Barge

Letter Writer · Mar 26, 2019 ·

Dear Editor, I enjoyed reading Bill Burrell’s recollections of admirals’ barges (Naval Historical Review, December 2018). He errs, though, in referring to the Admiral Hudson as a barge: it’s a cabin ...

Letter: Hospital ships

Letter Writer · Dec 10, 2018 ·

Dear Editor As always, lots of interest in the September edition but one item has caught my attention. In the article about the hospital ships, on page 43 you show ...

Letter: Villers Bretonneux Museum – Garden Island Dockyard crest

Letter Writer · Sep 24, 2018 ·

Dear Editor, Some years ago when I was serving in the office of the Naval Historical Society a letter was received with a copy of a photograph of a Garden ...

Letter: What’s in a Name – Cumberlege

Letter Writer · Sep 24, 2018 ·

A few emails have been received from learned members regarding the spelling of a family name used in the June 2018 edition of this magazine on Rear Admiral Claude Lionel ...

Letter: HDML 1321 Update

Letter Writer · Jun 24, 2018 ·

Dear Walter I have been following your articles and updates on 1321 with interest, and think you may have a use for this informative paper cutting, recently uncovered in one of ...

Letter: The Kangaroo Symbol on HMA Ships

Letter Writer · Mar 24, 2018 ·

The picture of the commissioning of HMAS Hobart on the front cover of the December 2017 edition of the Naval Historical Review – particularly that of the red kangaroo symbol affixed ...

Letter: HMAS Patricia Cam families visit

Letter Writer · Mar 24, 2018 ·

The following email was recently received addressed to the President of the Naval Historical Society and your Editor from Michael Owen a Darwin based historian who operates Top End Heritage ...

Letter: HMAS Arunta and Operation Hamburger

Letter Writer · Mar 24, 2018 ·

Dear Editor The December 2017 edition of the NHR contains an article on the evacuation of Lancer Force from Timor by HMAS Arunta in January 1943. As my father was CO ...

Letter: HMAS Platypus

Letter Writer · Dec 6, 2017 ·

Dear Editor, The article “HMAS Platypus– a Submarine Naval Base “  in the September 2017 edition of the NHR brought back memories of an earlier problem with the local residents ...

Letter: More on “Who Took the Flag?”

Letter Writer · Sep 5, 2017 ·

Dear Editor I refer to David Quick’s letter ‘Who Took the Flag’ in the June 2017 edition of the NHR. A quick look at the RoPs of HMAS Supply tells us ...

Letter: Some Additional Aspects to the RAN’s Antarctic Involvement

Letter Writer · Sep 5, 2017 ·

Dear Editor, Further to Hugh Farmer’s article Antarctica –the forgotten Continent in the Naval Historical Review Vol. 38 No. 2 (June 2017), there are two aspects of RAN participation in ...

Letter: Who Took the Flag – QC Owns Up

Letter Writer · Jun 30, 2017 ·

I read with interest Fifty Years under the Australian White Ensign by Norman Rivett (Naval Historical Review Vol 38 No 1 March 2017). I have a story of my own to ...

Letter: Climate Change

Letter Writer · Jun 30, 2017 ·

After some lengthy exchanges John Wells seeks one last word: I wish to thank the Editor for giving me the opportunity for ‘right of reply’ to David F. Flakelar’s rebuttal ...

HMAS Nepal and Operation ES – June and July 1942

Letter Writer · Mar 29, 2017 ·

The Society received the following letter which explains this unusual circumstance. A recent application to the Defence Honours and Awards Tribunal has cast light on a hitherto unknown operation undertaken ...

Letter: Hits on HMVS Cerberus

Letter Writer · Sep 27, 2016 ·

The following was recently received from Ted Bell one of our members who is also a very useful internet boffin. Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about ‘the world’s ...

Letter: Searching for a photograph of CMDR J. M. Jackson, RN

Letter Writer · Jun 23, 2016 ·

 The NHR dated December 2015 contained an article by Leyland Wilkinson on the remarkable sixteen years that CMDR J.M. Jackson, RN served on the Australia Station and lamented the lack ...

Letter: River Cruises and the Big River

Letter Writer · Jun 23, 2016 ·

Two letters have been received in response to Leyland Wilkinson’s article on ‘River Cruises and the Big River’. These important contributions are from officers with first-hand experience of navigating far ...

Letter: The Australia Station

Letter Writer · Mar 22, 2016 ·

An email was received from John Redman. I read the current (December edition) Naval Historical Review with great interest, an excellent publication. Not wanting to be pedantic but I suppose ...

Letter: Admiral John Gore at Lake Bathurst and Goulburn

Letter Writer · Mar 22, 2016 ·

Dear Sir, Many thanks for your delightful article on ‘John Gore of Lake Bathurst’ – NHR September 2015. You mentioned James Hassall and the lineage of that pioneer Anglican family. ...

Letter: SMS Kometat the Witu Islands

Letter Writer · Mar 22, 2016 ·

Dear Editor I enjoyed the story The Witu Islands – Were they the Wolf’s Lair in the September 2015 edition of the ‘Review’. This led me to look up an ...

Letter: The Hammerhead Lives

Letter Writer · Dec 21, 2015 ·

The following interesting letter has been received from our member Roy Kingston of Castle Hill.  On 10 September I had the privilege of attending the ‘launch’ of the public display ...

Letter: Picket Boats

Letter Writer · Sep 20, 2015 ·

This letter was received from our ever helpful member Leyland Wilkinson who has recently moved from the Central Coast to Grafton.   As always the recent issue (June 2015) of ...

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