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HMAS Perth I

The Transition to War: HMAS Perth and the Canadian West Coast Destroyers

A.N. Other · Dec 13, 2018 ·

By Roger Buxton In the late northern summer and autumn of 1939 HMAS Perth and the Canadian West Coast destroyers HMC Ships Fraser, Ottawa, Restigouche and St Laurent were making the transition from ...

The Battle of Cape Matapan

A.N. Other · Mar 16, 2015 ·

By MIDN John McClelland – winner of the Naval Historical Society Prize. John McClelland grew up on a sheep property near Bendigo in central Victoria .His primary and secondary education ...

Book Review: Rising Sun, Falling Skies – The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II

Book reviewer · Jun 24, 2014 ·

Rising Sun, Falling Skies – The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II. By Jeffrey R. Cox. Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2014. Hardback of 487 pages with b&w photographs and ...

Red Lead – A Cat’s Tail

Walter Burroughs · Jun 24, 2014 ·

By Walter Burroughs  One of the privileges of writing naval history is occasionally being invited to visit ships and establishments and meeting some of the fine men and women who ...

Book Review: Ray Parkin’s Odyssey

Book reviewer · Mar 24, 2013 ·

Ray Parkin’s Odyssey by Pattie Wright. Published by Pan Macmillan Australia, Sydney, 2012. Hardback of 672 pages with over 100 excellent paintings and sketches, rrp $49.99. The story of the ...

HMAS Perth: Athens – A Joy Forever

Norris, Roy · Feb 4, 2013 ·

Pireaus, Greece

Came back into Suda Bay again next morning 2nd Jan [1941] at 1100 and had another alarm from R.D.F but no aircraft was spotted. No soldiers arrived so about 1600 ...

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Reminiscences about the wartime activities of HMAS Australia

A.N. Other · Dec 12, 2007 ·

Being an anonymous reminiscence about the wartime activities of HMAS Australia, first published in the collection entitled HMAS 1945, published by the Australian War Memorial. In the three years of ...

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Letters: The Compassionate Japanese Destroyer Captain

Letter Writer · Dec 3, 2005 ·

I have just received some information from my friend Commander Andrew David RN which might be appropriate for mention in the NHS REVIEW. I have told him that I will ...

Australian Naval History on 6 February 2004

On This Day · Feb 6, 2004 ·

The Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial was dedicated at the Ballarat Botanical Gardens by the Chief of the Defence Force (General Peter Cosgrove, AO, MC). Among the 35,000 names on ...

Letters – Unacknowledged heroes

Barton, Alan · Sep 18, 1998 ·

I have read with interest the comments in the Naval Historical Review on HMAS YARRA and Leading Seaman Taylor’s heroic action. I also believe this last action of YARRA’S has ...

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