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HMAS Cerberus (Shore Establishment)

The Arthur Lunan Story: Part 1

A.N. Other · Dec 29, 2021 ·

  The late Arthur Lunan maintained a diary of his wartime service in the RAN from 1941 to 1946. His brother-in-law William Moody has digitised this and added some family ...

Occasional Paper 93: Boxing in the Navy

Editorial Staff · Oct 6, 2020 ·

By John Smith  John Smith, our senior researcher, joined the RAN College in 1946 and retired as a Commander having specialised in gunnery. He served in many RAN ships and ...

Occasional Paper 33: HMAS Cerberus – Early History and Observations

David Stratton · Oct 29, 2018 ·

August 2018 This paper was developed after locating a 1970 HMAS Cerberus Wardroom mess dinner menu.  The menu included observations by prominent citizens about HMAS Cerberus and its location at ...

Lieutenant (SP) H.L. Billman, DSC, RANVR

A.N. Other · Mar 24, 2018 ·

By Hector Donohue Harold Leon (Bill) Billman had a relatively short war in the RAN of just three years, but as a bomb and mine disposal officer he was regularly ...

Commander Frederick Campbell Darley 1886 – 1926

Swinden, Greg · Jun 28, 2017 ·

Frederick Campbell Darley was born at Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, NSW on 12 February 1886, the eldest child of Cecil West Darley (Public Works Engineer) and Constance Leila Annette Darley (nee ...

Memoirs of George William Rayner 15 Oct 1886 – 18 July 1962

A.N. Other · Jun 24, 2014 ·

These important memoirs provided by Robert Rayner are taken from his grandfather’s handwritten notes discovered in the family’s Sydney home in 2007. Early Life in Prison! I was born at ...

Letter: Piper Report and Dangers to Navigation

Letter Writer · Dec 4, 2012 ·

Dear Sir, Well done for the September issue of the Naval Historical Review. Another good read. May I say that as far as my service with the Royal Australian Navy ...

Obituary: Captain John Frederick Bell, RAN, (Retired)

Wright, W Graham, Captain, RAN (Retired) · Mar 21, 2010 ·

William Shakespeare wrote: ‘The good men do is oft interred with their bones’. So that this will not happen here, I will tell you about John Bell, the boy, which ...

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The RAN Band Ashore And Afloat

Periodical, Semaphore · Mar 5, 2008 ·

This article was first published in Semaphore, published by the Seapower Centre in 2007, and appears here with their kind permission. The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Band is a ceremonial unit ...

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HMAS Pioneer – Blockading German East Africa, 1915-16

A.N. Other · Sep 1, 2005 ·

The wardroom of the Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN) premier training establishment, HMAS Cerberus, is home to many fine treasures reflecting Australia’s naval heritage. Perhaps the most curious of these is ...

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