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Occasional Paper 91: Invidious Choices – The German East Asia Squadron and the RAN in the Pacific, August to December 1914

A.N. Other · Oct 6, 2020 ·

By Lieutenant Commander Desmond Woods RAN This paper was first published by the Australian Naval Institute online and in an abbreviated form the by the UK Naval Review and by ...

The debt owed to the Norwegian Merchant Service and MV Herstein

Editorial Staff · Mar 26, 2019 ·

What if anything what does Norway, at the far end of the northern hemisphere, have to do with the wartime security of Australia? As this story unfolds the answer is, ...

The New Guinea Diary of LCDR Clarence Hansby Read, RANR 1914-1915

Editorial Staff · Mar 22, 2016 ·

The manuscript of Read’s diary was acquired by the Mitchell Library in 1919 for the sum of £30. It lay undisturbed for nearly a century until transcribed into digital format ...

Commander J. M. Jackson, RN – Sixteen years on the Australia Station

A.N. Other · Dec 21, 2015 ·

By Leyland Wilkinson  On 18 March 1918 the Sydney Morning Herald briefly reported the death in England on 7 March of Commander J .M. Jackson, RN. It stated: He had ...

The Witu Islands – were these the Wolf’s Lair?

Editorial Staff · Sep 20, 2015 ·

P & O’s Pacific Dawn recently completed a two week cruise to Papua New Guinea (PNG) with calls at Alotau (Milne Bay), Madang and Wewak. Unfortunately a low on-shore swell precluded ...

Invidious Choices – The German East Asia Squadron and the RAN in the Pacific, August to December 1914

A.N. Other · Dec 23, 2014 ·

By Lieutenant Commander Desmond Woods, RAN  This article was presented by the author at the Anglo-German Naval Race and WWI at Sea Conference held at Portsmouth, England in July 2014. ...

They Also Served: Able Seaman Herbert Charles Willans RANR (1888 – 1914)

A.N. Other · Dec 23, 2014 ·

By Leyland Wilkinson On a recent visit to the Bita Paka War Cemetery near Rabaul I came across a single headstone to the memory of Able Seaman Herbert Charles Willans, ...

Rabaul the Garden City Revisited

Walter Burroughs · Sep 24, 2014 ·

This continues our voyage to Papua New Guinea in MV Pacific Dawn, with the March 2014 edition of the NHR, detailing experiences encountered at Milne Bay. Further information on Rabaul ...

SMS Komet, the RAN’s first captured warship: a valuable prize and our first aircraft carrier

A.N. Other · Sep 24, 2014 ·

By Leyland Wilkinson In the latter part of the 19th century, Germany had been actively developing her Pacific island colonies and by 1900 had large holdings to the north of ...

The RAN and the Capitulation of German New Guinea

Pfennigwerth, Ian · Mar 24, 2014 ·

In August 1914 the Australian government responded with caution to a British suggestion that it might undertake the destruction of the radio stations located in German colonial possessions in the ...

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