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Letters: HMAS Sydney and Kormoran

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Subjects
WWII operations, History - WW2, Letter to the Editor
Tags
Prisoner of war, SS Mareeba, Kormoran
RAN Ships
None noted.
Publication
September 1991 edition of the Naval Historical Review (all rights reserved)

The Red Cross sent me up to Wales for a holiday and then to Kingston on Thames and then to Scotland where I sailed for Australia on the Empire Rowlinson and arrived back home on 17th August 1945 and was I glad to get back home.

Well now Lex I do hope that I have eased your mind and this little epistle will interest you and give you the facts and knowledge of what you wanted to know. And now I am

Yours respectfully,
Jack Bottomley

This is a complete list of the full complement

Crew of S/S Mareeba – 6th April, 1941

Officers Deck Side Officers Engine Room
  • Captain Skinner
  • Chief Mate. Freeman, David
  • 2nd Mate. Rogers
  • 3rd Mate. Long, Douglas
  • 1st Radio. Redmond, Ronald
  • 2nd Radio. Currie, Noel
  • 3rd Radio. Holmes, Ralph
  • Chief Steward. Keegan, Colin
  • 2nd Steward. Pratt, William
  • 3rd Steward. Bentley, Charles
  • Carpenter. Tesseyman, Victor
  • Boatswain. Rose, Robert
  • Storekeeper. Humphries, George
  • Able Seaman. McNiel, Gilbert
  • Able Seaman. Thorpe, William
  • Able Seaman. Melville, George
  • Able Seaman. Evans, Douglas
  • Able Seaman. Gunderson, Charles
  • Able Seaman. Lucas, (Yank) John
  • Able Seaman. McAdam, George
  • Ord. Seaman. Ford, Geoffrey
  • Deck Boy. Kitchen, David
  • Chief Engineer. Anderson, Bernard
  • 2nd Engineer. Gordon, John
  • 3rd Engineer. Hill, James
  • 4th Engineer. Rielly, Thomas
  • 5th Engineer. McCowan, Kenneth
  • Donkeyman. Sayers, Frederick
  • Greaser. Ravenscroft, Samuel
  • Greaser. McKay, John
  • Fireman. Langtry, John
  • Fireman. Dooley, Lionel
  • Fireman. McLelland Leonard
  • Fireman. Mathieson, Alexander
  • Fireman. Haves, Dennis
  • Fireman. O’Toole, Martin
  • Fireman. Bradley, James
  • Fireman. Gannon, Patrick
  • Fireman. Martin, Horace
  • Trimmer. Bottomley, Jack
  • Trimmer. Griffiths, Jack
  • Trimmer. Brown, William
  • Trimmer. Nieuwhenizen, Edward
  • Trimmer. Gill, Rio
  • Trimmer. Maucussen, George
Cooks
  • Chief Cook. Sorenson, Robert
  • 2nd Cook. Van Brughel, Christian
  • 3rd Cook. Jones, Sidney

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