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HMAS Hawkesbury I

Occasional Paper 104: Changi and the HMAS Perth Survivors

Editorial Staff · Mar 4, 2021 ·

By Max Thomson HMAS PERTH survivors were the subject of a special request tabled to authorities when Changi prisoners of war were released in Singapore following Japan’s surrender in 1945. ...

The “Lighter” Side of the War at Sea

Thomson, Max · Dec 3, 2005 ·

As movies, so many of the films screened to RAN personnel in rare moments of comparative leisure time in wartime ships were easily forgettable. For the author and many like ...

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Germany’s Surrender 60 years ago – Admiralty Signal

Thomson, Max · Sep 1, 2005 ·

A lifetime onwards, Navy men and women reflected inevitably during the month of May 2005 as to where they actually were when the German surrender brought about cessation of WWII ...

HMAS Hawkesbury and Singapore POWs return

Thomson, Max · Jun 10, 2004 ·

With the unveiling by CDF General Cosgrove at Ballarat on 6 February 2004 of the memorial dedicated to 35,000 Australians who became prisoners-of-war in all conflicts, journalist and Navy veteran ...

Missing were the usherettes and the popcorn

Thomson, Max · Mar 30, 2001 ·

As movies, so many of the films were easily forgettable; yet the locations and especially the settings and circumstances under which they were screened, were gems of wartime naval service ...

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Letters: Beattie of the St Nazaire raid

Letter Writer · Jun 1, 1999 ·

A small point that may be of interest to your readers (St Nazaire – The Greatest Commando Raid of WW II) is that Lieutenant Commander (as he then was) Beattie ...

Letter: The Day It Rained Metal At Manus

Thomson, Max · Jun 1, 1999 ·

Dear Editors, Two quite enthralling packages came to me last week – one from Morton PA in America and the other from Anchorage, Alaska USA – all as a result ...

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What flag was that?

Thomson, Max · Sep 18, 1998 ·

Amid the saga of events in Jakarta over recent times, the red over white horizontal halves of the flag of the Republic of Indonesia have figured in high prominence. Displayed ...

HMAS Hawkesbury – The Pathos of Palawan

Thomson, Max · Mar 23, 1998 ·

For an RAN ship, Palawan on the edge of the South China Sea was a unique place indeed to visit; especially amid circumstances that were dramatic to say the least. ...

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Spectrum of Command -RANVR, RANR(S) and RAN

Thomson, Max · Sep 1, 1995 ·

*The first became Australia’s Minister for Defence. * The second piloted 8463 ships of the world through our major ports to set a record that probably never will be eclipsed. ...

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