By Ian Thomson The author provides us with a delightful vignette of life as a dockyard apprentice. We should also remember that workers at Garden Island Dockyard were employed by ...
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A Paymaster and a Master of Ship Recognition
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HMAS Perth: Night Bombing at Alex
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I pray we never have to face again all we went through in those savage seven months. “Malta” – the realisation of what we were up against – just previous ...