- Author
- A.N. Other and NHSA Webmaster
- Subjects
- Biographies and personal histories, WWII operations
- Tags
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- RAN Ships
- None noted.
- Publication
- March 1990 edition of the Naval Historical Review (all rights reserved)
Hundreds of well wishers contacted Australia’s only woman coast watcher, Ruby Boyes BEM, on her 98th birthday. Ruby operated on Vanikoro in the Solomons and saved thousands of Allied locals with her timely warnings of approaching Japanese sea and air forces. She is pictured with Rear Admiral and Mrs Swan who were two of the many callers on the important day.
