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Trafalgar Day – name the day

Hinchliffe, L.M. · Mar 25, 1990 ·

The Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, K.B. and Duke of Bronte Vice Admiral of the White Squadron and The Battle of Trafalgar, 2nd October, 1805 I first studied the ...

Dry Land Sailors – The Navy at Gallipoli

A.N. Other · Mar 24, 1990 ·

At 4.30 on the morning of December 20 1915, Sub Lieutenant Charles Hicks and his fifty man detachment of the Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train, stood waiting in the dark ...

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I’ve Been To Bali Too

Colthorpe, P.D., Lieutenant, RAN · Mar 19, 1990 ·

In my case I went before it was fashionable and the hospitality was less than the travel agents would have you believe. Not that the natives could be held to ...

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HMAS Australia – Battle of Leyte Gulf

Roberts, Keith · Mar 19, 1990 ·

On the night of October 20, 1944, the heavy cruiser HMAS Australia, part of the Task Group 77.3 under command of Rear Admiral R.S. Berkey, US Navy, took up position ...

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Westralia – Appleleaf

Ramsay, George · Mar 19, 1990 ·

It was interesting recently, when the ex RFA APPLELEAF was acquired and joined the ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY, to be renamed WESTRALIA, (the Second Ship of that name in the RAN ...

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