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Occasional Paper 21: Battle of the Atlantic Memorial

A.N. Other · May 18, 2025 ·

In January 2018 advice was received from a Society member that a Battle of the Atlantic memorial is to be constructed in Liverpool, as there is no dedicated memorial to ...

Occasional Paper 15: Battle of Bita Paka 11 September 1914

Editorial Staff · May 17, 2025 ·

German New Guinea, colonised in 1884, maintained a wireless station at Bitapaka in New Britain.  In 1914 the station was a target for Naval Reservists and others of the Australian ...

The HMAS Parramatta Memorials

Editorial Staff · Dec 19, 2020 ·

In this our 50th year it is well to reflect on some of the more important projects undertaken by the Society and none is perhaps more worthy than conceiving a ...

Occasional Paper 92: First Royal Australian Navy Victoria Cross: Ordinary Seaman Edward “Teddy” Sheean.

Haken, J.K., Dr · Oct 6, 2020 ·

By Dr John K Haken The Victoria Cross for Australia continues the traditions of the Imperial Victoria Cross as our highest award for bravery. Like several other Commonwealth countries, Australia ...

Chief of Navy grants permission for the Australian White Ensign to fly over the HMAS Sydney (II) Memorial at Geraldton, WA

Editorial Staff · Sep 20, 2020 ·

By LCDR Desmond Woods The HMAS Sydney (II) Memorial at Geraldton in WA has become a place of pilgrimage for 65,000 visitors each year. Some 20,000 arrive by sea on ...

Letter: The 9/11 Boatlift

Letter Writer · Dec 25, 2019 ·

Almost coincidentally we recently received correspondence from two readers, Megan Hughes and Tony Maskell, asking if we had knowledge of the 9/11 Boatlift Memorial in New Jersey. We trust the ...

Occasional Paper 21: Battle of the Atlantic: Appeal for £2.5m memorial

David Stratton · Oct 29, 2018 ·

Artists Impression of the monument The charity needs to raise £2.5m for the planned monument on the Pier Head   A campaign to build a national memorial to the estimated ...

Naval Health Services Memorial

A.N. Other · Jun 24, 2018 ·

Over recent timeswhat was the Naval Health Services has undergone a significant transformation, becoming part of a unified Defence Health Services organisation. To many past members of the wider naval ...

Occasional Paper 15: Battle of Bita Paka 11 September 1914

A.N. Other · Sep 1, 2017 ·

September 2017 The Battle of Bita Paka (11 September 1914) was fought south of Kabakaul, on the island of New Britain, and was a part of the invasion and subsequent ...

The Whitsunday Tragedy

A.N. Other · Jun 23, 2016 ·

By Allan Miles Whenever a tragedy happens resulting in the lives of young Australians who have chosen a career in service of this country, it is a great loss. Such ...

An Isolated War Grave: Warrant Officer John Henry Davies

Swinden, Greg · Mar 23, 2015 ·

This article was first published by the Military History & Heritage Society of Victoria and is reproduced with their kind permission and that of the author. In the far north ...

The Sydney Cenotaph and its Guardians

A.N. Other · Mar 23, 2015 ·

 By an unknown serviceman The majority of our members will have paid their respects at the Cenotaph in Martin Place and gazed at its two imposing cast bronze sentinels. These ...

HMAS Kuttabul Remembered both sides of the Harbour

Editorial Staff · Sep 24, 2013 ·

As the Naval Historical Society was recently represented at similar events on both sites of the harbour our members might be interested in their reports. Unfortunately restricted access to the ...

The Story of Ordnance Artificer Gordon Robertson

Swinden, Greg · Sep 12, 2007 ·

In the quiet Presbyterian Section of GoreHill Cemetery (Sydney), only 50 metres or so from the busy Pacific Highway upon which the people of the city travel to and from ...

Former HMAS Nirimba Site – Memorial Garden

Fazio, Lieut. V. RANEM · Mar 9, 2002 ·

On Saturday 3rd of November 2001, in overcast conditions, the Memorial Garden at the former HMAS NIRIMBA site, was formally dedicated. The service was conducted in front of some 150 ...

The Relocation of HMAS Parramatta Memorial

Torrington, Reg · Jun 20, 2000 ·

HMAS Parramatta, a torpedo boat destroyer of the River Class, launched in 1910, was the first ship of the Royal Australian Navy. It was decommissioned in 1928 and, with HMAS ...

Letters: Royal Naval College, Greenwich.

Stevens, Errol · Mar 1, 1999 ·

Most of our readers will have been aware that the Queen unveiled the huge re-gilded statue of both her and her husband’s great-great-grandfather, Prince Albert, in London in October 1998. ...

USS Missouri – Final Berth at Pearl Harbor

Newspaper, The Australian · Dec 7, 1998 ·

The two ships that marked the beginning and the end of World War II for the US were linked yesterday, as the USS Missouri arrived at Battleship Row in Pearl ...

Captain Harvey Newcomb RN – Newcomb Building, HMAS Watson

Worledge, Ray · Dec 7, 1998 ·

On October 28, 1997 the Royal Australian Navy’s Surface Warfare School Building was formally renamed the “Newcomb Building”, commemorating the service of Captain Harvey Mansfield Newcomb. At the end of ...

ADFA Tour of the Gallipoli Battlefield – 1997

Giles, Sarah, Midshipman, RAN · Mar 6, 1998 ·

From sipping apple tea at a cafe in Istanbul to a Dawn Service at Anzac Cove, the experiences were many and varied for the 80 staff and cadets from the ...

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Memorial Window – RAN destroyers

A.N. Other · Sep 6, 1997 ·

At the Chapel of Remembrance, Garden Island, Sydney on Sunday, 15th July 1997 a memorial window commemorating the fifteen RAN destroyers which served in World War II was dedicated and ...

HMS Hood Memorial

Date, John C., RANVR (Rtd) · Sep 1, 1997 ·

Memorials to the loss of naval ships in UK are seldom seen but there is one of world-wide interest. The old Parish Church of Boldre, the building of which commenced ...

HMAS Canberra – Solomon Islands Memorial

Nordall, Keith · Mar 6, 1995 ·

Prior to 1988, the HMAS Canberra – HMAS Shrop­shire Association had been occupied in establish­ing memorials to both their ships at Naval establish­ments in each State of Australia. In March ...

Letters: HMAS Canberra Memorial

Letter Writer · Dec 6, 1994 ·

I was interested to see in the June 1994 edition a reproduction of a memorial plate for HMAS CANBERRA at Honiara in the Solomon Islands. Having served in this ship ...

Old Sailors Memorial to Rear Admiral Sir David Martin

Zammitt, Alan · Sep 12, 1993 ·

April 4th, 1993 was the day about 200 old shipmates and friends of Rear Admiral Sir David Martin attended a service of worship at the Garden Island Naval Dockyard Chapel ...

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