A short account of some wartime experiences – Awarded Second Prize, Naval Officers Club Literary Prize 2001 THE OUTBREAK OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR in September 1939 caught most people, ...
WWII operations
U Boat surrender in Loch Eriboll – 8th to 23rd May 1945
Book Review: Kill the Tiger
Kill the Tiger By Peter Thompson and Robert Macklin Published by Hodder Headline Australia. $29.95 Reviewed by John Jones “Kill the Tiger” is the story of Rimau, the special forces ...
Book Review: So Long Singapore
So Long Singapore by Hugh Campbell and Ron Lovell. Reasonably priced at $25.00 plus $7 postage and packing, this book is thoroughly recommended. Available from the author (Hugh Campbell) at: ...
Operation Pedestal – 60th Anniversary
15th August 2002 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the arrival in Malta of the Pedestal convoy, delivering at heavy cost the critical supplies that saved the island from having to ...
RANVR Yachtsmen in World War II
HMS Byron and the Surrender of U-1009 at the End of WW2
Memorial: HMAS Canberra lost at the Battle of Savo Island
Book Review: War in a String Bag
Title: War in a String Bag – Autobiography of WW2 Fleet Air Arm Pilot Charles Lamb Author: Charles Lamb Publisher: Cassell ISBN:0 -304-35841-X This is an autobiographical account of Charles Lamb’s exploits in ...
Naval Action at Darwin – 19 February 1942
Some Truths About Darwin and the Air Raid – 19 Feb 1942
Book Review: The Pirate of Tobruk – Biography of Commander Alfred Palmer RNR
HMS Thanet and HMAS Vampire – Malayan Night Action
The Fall of Singapore in February 1942 – Naval Operations
HMAS Maryborough & Charles Moses-Escape from Java 1942
Lieut. R B Stannard VC – HMS Arab – Norway 1940
The Contribution of Merchant Seamen During the Fall of Crete – 1941
It is not always appreciated that British and Australian merchant seamen served ashore (probably inadvertently) during the withdrawal of Allied forces from Greece and subsequently, Crete. One such story deserves ...
The Alchiba Travail
The Battle of the Atlantic – Western Approaches Command
HMS Cossack
The name COSSACK, to many people, means a fierce sabre-wielding horseman from southern Russia. To most World War II naval veterans it reminds them of the exploits of the Tribal ...
