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 to the Editor
Letter: What’s in a Name – Cumberlege
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
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: Capacity of Woolloomooloo Oil Fuel Tanks
Ian Homes has emailed us regarding an error in the stated capacity of the Woolloomooloo oil fuel tanks shown on the back cover of the March edition of this magazine. ...
Letter: The Kangaroo Symbol on HMA Ships
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
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
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
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?”
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
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 ...