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HMAS Sydney I

WW2 Bickley Naval Guns at Rottnest Island W.A.

Jeffrey, Vic · Dec 6, 1997 ·

It has often been incorrectly thought that the two 6-inch guns located at the World War Two Bickley coastal gun battery came from the famous World War One cruiser HMAS ...

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Obituary: John Bastock RAN 1908-1996: Naval Artist

Zammitt, Alan · Sep 5, 1996 ·

RAN serviceman, naval artist, writer. Born Sydney, February 18, 1908. Died Padstow, July 26, 1996, aged 88. In 1913, when he was five years old, John Bastock perched on his ...

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Search for the German Asiatic Squadron – 1914-1916

Jarrett, Hugh · Jul 12, 1992 ·

At the outbreak of war on 4th August, 1914, the German East Asiatic Squadron, commanded by Vice-Admiral Graf von Spee, had its base at the fortified harbour of Tsing-tao on ...

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HMAS Sydney – Memorial

Zammitt, Alan · Jul 12, 1992 ·

As part of the fiftieth anniversary of the loss of the cruiser HMAS SYDNEY with her entire complement of 645 sailors, a beautiful granite memorial with four bronze plaques featuring ...

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HMAS Sydney – A Tale of Two Warships

Sullivan, John · Sep 11, 1991 ·

November is an important month in Australian naval history, but this article deals with just two events which occurred in that month. Both relate to HMAS SYDNEY, the first involving ...

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The RAN’s Forgotten War Dead

Swinden, Greg · Jun 21, 1990 ·

In 1987 while posted to Canberra, I visited the Australian War Memorial on several occasions. On one visit I noticed what appeared to me to be several omissions on the ...

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Chivalry and Courtesy in war and when most unexpected!

Date, John C., RANVR (Rtd) · Sep 19, 1989 ·

In the sea action on 9 November, 1914 off Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean, between the Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German cruiser SMS Emden, a kindly gesture ...

HMAS Sydney-SMS Emden Action at Cocos Islands 1914 – A German Survivor’s Account

Clark, Bryan · Sep 18, 1989 ·

Republished from the “Clarion” newspaper, Cocos Island, (in 1964), and now to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the original HMAS Sydney’s battle with the German light cruiser, Emden, at North ...

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Sydney – Emden Action: a short history

A.N. Other · Jun 11, 1987 ·

IN OCTOBER 1914, Sydney and her sister ship Melbourne detached from the Flagship (Australia) and returned to Australia to form a unit of the escort of the first Anzac convoy ...

RAN Formation – A Personal Memory

Feakes, Rear Admiral , CBE · Dec 11, 1986 ·

The following account of how the Royal Australian Navy was born was written by Rear Admiral H.J. Feakes, CBE almost fifty years ago. Feakes was an eyewitness to the great ...

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