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AUTUMN, 1993 Registered by Australia Post Publication No. WAS 1158

Lest We Forget Craterland- Ypres, 1911 By Fred Leist AWM 41 5 Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs . Ccln We help you? ·

You·could be eligible for benefits if • you are a veteran • a widow, wife or dependent child of a veteran, or • your spouse, parent or guardian is, or was, a veteran, or member of the Australian Defence or Peacekeeping forces. • you have completed qualifying peacetime service in the case of Defence Service Homes benefits.

Veterans' benefits include: • Pensions and allowances • Health-care benefits • Counselling services • Pharmaceutical benefits • Defence Service Homes - housing loan subsidy - homeowners' insurance • Funeral benefits • Commemoration ' . FIND OUT WHETHER YOU ARE ELIGIBLE FOR BENEFIT.S BY CONT A.CTING THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS' AFFAIRS ON . . 425 8222 .. .. ''-, Country Callers Free Line: 008 113304 · Remember .... "We're only a 'phone call away" Veterans' Affairs Cares Contents Page LISTENINe POST '

Publishers Pre';ldcnt's M essage 3 . . ' Returned & Services League W.A. Branch (Incorporated) Anuc House G.P.O. Box C128, Pr1111 1: Life 50 Plus 7 28 St Georges Terrace Perth. W .A. 6001 Perth, W.A. 6000 • Tel: 325 9799 AssL'mbly Are,ls AnzJc Dlly 1993 9

Operation · R i Pl<•LJ 15

South West PJcif1c A r cJ (Cone!.) 27 ... , El AIJme111 - 50111 Ann1versJr y 31

A Lonely Walk on Gall1polli 45 Editorial Ou1nn s Jnd Courtney's 53 Editor/Chairman: Mrs Pat Balfe Defcnc1 ls~ues 57 Deputy: Mr John S~rridge Veterans· Affairs 58 Committee: Mrs B. Clintoo, Mrs J. Dowson, Reun1ons 59 Messrs P. Hester, T. Uoyd, R. Mercer, P. White (Co-opted) Messrs E. Hinchliffe, L.J. Owens Sub Brdncll News 61 Book Rev1cws 66

Sub-Editor Wome11 s Auxiliary 71 Mrs Pat Elphinstone Lost Trails 71 •• Advertisers Westralian Publishers, • • 263 Stirling Highway, Claremont, W.A. 6010 Tel: 383 4966

. Deadlines T ypesetting/Composing for Listening Post Contributions. Action Press. 101 Catherine Street, · 31 January for Autumn Edition Morley, W.A. 6062 30 April for Winter Edition Tel: 276 5266 31 July for Spring Edition 31 October for Summer Edition If possible submission should be typed, double spaced. Printer PhotographS can be black and white or colour glossy. Bell Group Press, This is your journal and contributions are welcome. 7 Briggs Street, Post to: East Victoria Park. W.A. 6101 Tel: 361 5401 Ustealag Post RSL G.P.O.. Boz ClU Perth8001

Opinion expressed by coauibwors in articles and reproduced articles are the individual opinions of1uch coatribu1ors or lbe autbon ofsuch reproduced articles (as the case may be) and 1101 nec:aunly lbosc of lbe 'RSL COVER: CrilterlaDd - Ypres 1917. ReprodiiCiion of anides (or ex1pal) conl&ioed in Lislmina Post is welcomed p<'Ovided !be 1011roe is acknowledged

~lsten~ Po8t- Autumn 1113-hge1 ···RSL TRAVE-L Join your fellow RSL members 01;1 these fantastic P&O Fairstar Cruises CORAL SEA:CIRCL~ CRUISE

DAY DATE ITINERARY DAY DATE ITINERARY 1 THU 02 SEP Departs Perth at 4.00pm arrive 1 FRI 12 NOV Departs Perth at 4.00pm arrive in at 10.05pm in Sydney at 10.05pm Accommodation: Ollms Hotel Accommodation: Ollms Hotel 2 FRI 03 SEP MornJng sightseeing tour of 2 SAT 13 NOV Morning sightseeing tour of Sydney with transfer to wharf to Sydney with transfer to wharf to embark the Falrstar embark the Falrstar Dep-art Sydney 5.00pm Depart Sydney 5.00pm 3 SAT 04 SEP At sea 3 SUN 14 NOV At sea 4 SUN 05 SEP At sea 4 MON 15 NOV At sea 5 MON06 SEP Boulari-Havannah Passage - cruising 5 . TUE 16 NOV . Milford Sound, New Zealand• 6 TUE 07 SEP Vila. Vanuatu 9.00am to 6.00pm cruising 7 WED 08 SEP Champagne Bay 8.00am to 6pm · 6 WED 17 NOV At sea 8 THU 09 SEP At sea 7 THU 18 NOV Dunedin, New Zealand 8.00am to 9 FRI 10 SEP Honiara. Solomon Islands 5.00pm 7.00am to 5.00pm ·, 8 FRI 19 NOV Chrlstchurch, New Zealand W SAT 11 SEP At sea 8.00am to 5.00pm 11 SUN 12 SEP Samarai Is., Papua New Guinea 9 SAT 20 . NOV Welllngton, New Zealand 8.00am 7.00am to 4.00pm to 6.00pm visit the local RSL Club 12 MON 13 SEP Pt. Moresby, Papua New Guinea ami meet members . 9.00am to 4.00pm 10 SUN 21 NOV At-"sea 13 TUE 14 SEP At sea 11 MON 22 NOV Auckland, New Zealand 8.00 am 14 WED 15 SEP Townsville 7.00am to 8.00pm to 8.oopm 15 THU 16 SEP Whltsunday islands 7.00am to 12 TUE 23 NOV Bay oflslands, New Zealand 6.00pm 8.00am to 5.00pm 16 FRI 17 SEP At sea 12 WED24 NOV At .sea 17 SAT 18 SEP At sea 14. THU 25 NOV At sea 18 SUN 19 SEP Arrive Sydney 7.00am depart 15 FRI 26 NOV At sea Sydney at 11.50pm arrive Perth 16 SAT 27 NOV Arrive Sydney at 7.00am depart at 2.40pm Sydney 11.50am arrive Perth 2.40pm Save 1 00/o on selected cabins Whatever your idea of a true hoUday may be - you will have a great RSL travel represented by time on a Falrstar Cruise. There's resting. relulng and the meeting TRAVEL of new &lends as well as the ez:plorlng and cUsc:overlng of some of the WEST- . . > most J>eautifullslands in th ~ world. Combb)e this with fiDe food and SGIO Building, endless entertainment and you can be uiured of a wonderful hoUday... 170 St Goerge's Tee., Per.th you will even be escorted from P~rth by a Jiomlnated omclai RSL escort - WA -6000 nothing has been forgotten! ' Phone 321 4757

P-oe 2 - Listening Post,..... Autumn 1913 President's Me.ssage?.

DOUYWOOD·DOSPITAL The.' federal governnie!'1t i$ ·exploring private sect9r qptions for Hollywood Repatriation General Hospital in order to improve healt~-ca t e arrangem~nts to meet th~ changing needs of veterans and war widows in WA. · The timetable for the tender process, together with continuing consultations with the H~alth Department of WA, the ex-service community and staff associations, was announced on.8 February by the Minister for Veterans' Affairs, Mr Ben. Humphreys. He said his department would immediately begin advertising for preliminary STATE PRESIDENT proposals from p~rties interested in providing J.P. Hall, AM, BEM, JP. services at the 332-bed acute-care teaching hospital. SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT L.C. Keynes, BA. A succes::,iul outcome will see the introduction of the Repatriation Private Patient Scheme (RPPS). JUNIOR VICE PRESIDENT that will benefit 30,000 veterans and war widows P.C. Firkins, OAM. · entitled to repatriation health care in WA. STATE SECRETARY O.H. Gibbs, AFC, JP . . COMMITTEE WAR VE.rERAN'S' DOME J.R. Babbage, Mrs H.P. Balfe, BEe, ~rs B. Clinton, JIAIO)URAJI . A.A. Oacre, OBE, MBE, Mrs O.J. Oowson, MBE, M.C. Hall, JP, P.W. Hester, J.L. Holman, The accommodation for 55 veterans i n hostel care Mrs A Keynes Or A.J. King, BSc; MBBS, FCCP, at the Mandurah complex is nearing completion, F.RACMA,' FACRM, Z. Kwiecinski, ~Ec, and it is anticipated that the handover will take place T.K. Lloyd, JP, R.O. Mercer, AM, RFO, EO, . shortly. · . --: K.J. Morrison, K. Murphy, The Board of the War Veterans' Home advise that, W.J. Surridge, F. Verqi, P. White, DCM. upon.completion the project will have a deficit of REGIONAL COUNTRY VICE PRESIDENTS $400,000. However, wi'h your support and that of Messrs R. Barber (Coolgardie Sub-Braneh} the sub-branches.• we hope to. be able to raise this P.J. Blenkinsopp (Port Hedland ~ub a Branch) amount during '1'993: Your support is greatly C. Mills (Bunbury Sub-Branch) .appreciated. Dqnations are to be sent to War S.G. Robinson (Merredin Sub-Branch) Veterans' Home, 51 Alexander Drive, Mount Lawley A.J. Spendlove (Geraldton Sub-Branch) 6050; all dooati_ons over $2 are tax deductible. . R.E. Stanley (Aibany Sub-Branch) TRUSTEES . Messrs K. Broadhurst, FRAIA. ARABA, BACK o!V nm JOB A~. P. Pearson, CMG, OBE, JP, R.N. Stone, JP. I am pleased that Len Key.nes, our senior Vice LISTENING POST COMM~T.J:'EE President, is now fully recovered and back working Mrs H.P. Balfe, Mrs B. Chnton, with.me once again. I greatly appreciate-as I know Mrs D.J. oowson, Mr P.W. Hester, all members .do- his support and assistance. With Mr T.K. Lloyd, . younger leaders. like Len ·(a Vietnam veteran}; the Messrs R. Mercer, W.J. Surridge, P.. White, · ~eague can look forward to the .future ' with CO-OPTED·MEMBERS ·ebnfidence. · Messrs E. Hinchliffe, L.J. Owens J.P.' HALL...... ,g Po.t-Autumn .1113-..... 3 ... Now ... e Life Insurance • RSL Members·Under the Age ~f 50 Have Been Waiting For.

" We are delighted that Oceanic Life has responded to our request and developed this excellent programme of life insurance benefits for our members under the age of 50. As underwriter of the Official Insurance ~ · Programmes of the RSL, Oceanic Life continues to show its commitment to Leag~e. the by providing programmes specific~ ll y tailored to meet the . --- . requirements of all members. If you are under the age of 50, I urge you to B . d' Alf G d A M consider this important opportunity." · n ga Jer . ar1 an •. · · · National Pres1dent.

For many years, our exclusive insurance programmes Plan ... a programme that gives members aged 20 to for members aged 50 to have 75 been one of the RSL's the high-benefit, straightforward protection they most popular and valuable services. during these years of peak financial and This success has prompted members under the age of responsibilities. 50 to ask if they, too, could have an economical and . . easy-to-obtain life insurance programme. RSL members and their spouses are invited to That is why it is a pleasure to announce that Oceanic with ·non-smokers receiving a s ubstantial cost Plus, you will each re Life, underwriter of the Official Insurance Pro- . ceive a IOOJo discount if you your spouse enrol together. grammes of the RSL developed the RSL . Te~ Life Guaranteed Features of the RSL Term Life Plan • Guaranteed Renewable to Age 65 • Comprehensive Cover Premiums are based on your current age and are The RSL Term Life Plan protects your fami ly in guaranteed not to increa ~ e for a full 5 years. Plus, you event of your death from any cause, whether natural o,r are g uaranteed the right to renew your cover every 5 accidental. The only exceptions ;lre: Suicide during the years at the premium rate sh own for your age ar the first 13 months your policy is in effect; and AIDS, time of each renewal, and you may keep your policy other than that transmitted by blood transfusion or right up to age 65. other similar process - see your policy for details. • Non-Smoker's Dis ~o unt FACTS ABOUT THE You will recei ve a s ubstantial discount on your INSURER BEHIND THE PLAN premium rates if you have n ot smoked in the past Oc eanic life commenced business under the name of Australian 12 months. Provincial Ass urance Association in 1912. _Today, Oceanic life is a who lly owned sub_.sidiary of Oc eanic · , • Husband and Wife Discount Capital Corporation Limited, which is res ponsible for more than $400 If y ou and your spouse enrol together, you'll each million in funds under management. These funds a re managed on behalf of po licyholders in Australia and New Zeala nd. receive a 10% premium di scount. So it makes even As providers of the Off icial Ins urance Programmes of the RSL • more sense for botn you and your spouse to apply. they have shown su bstantial interest in doing something extra for the men a nd women who have ser ved their country. • Free Cover Period - Send No Money Now Company Directors Your cover will take effect as soon as your Application B.E. Waucbope (Chairman) J.W. Knox IJ.M. Cocbrane (Managing Director) O.E. Reichert is.. approved by Oceanic Life. There is no premium to I.C. CarroU B.G.Sinclair pay until I June, 1993. Plus, you ri\ay. review your W.W. Hawkins policy for" up to 14 days once you receive it. If you're not completely satisfied, ·you simply return the policy Oceanic Life Liniird and you will owe nothing. g

Pqe 4 - Llatenlng'Post- Autumn 1993 ......

\4 •I I "''I 1\ \ l ,,,, Pruftll ltlll \ ou ,,ld YOUR DUTY OF DISCLOSURE. Before-you I ' I I• ill 1 I buy this life '11111 111111 '" "" 11 '11111 'H l d" ,lilt! \till I Jl11d _, I insurance from us, you have a duty, under the Insurance Contracts Act 1984, to disclose to us ev~r y matter MONTHLY PREMIUMs MONTHLY PR MIUMS- that you know, or could reasonably be expet ted to know, is FOR 550,000 COVER relevant to our decision whether to accept the risk of Age Non-Smoker FOR $100,000 COVER insuring you and, if so, on what terms. ~ r Smoker Non-Smoker Sinalc Joi m ngtr Smoker You are not required to disclose anymatte r: that diminishes JoinI Single JoinI Single Joi m 30 9 . 8S . R.RS our risk; that is of common knowledge; that we know or, in 13.30 11 .9S 1~ . 70 31 9.9S R.9S IU S 21.110 19.45 the ordinary course of' business, ought to know; or on 13.(1() IUS ! ~ . 'IS IJ A ~ 32 10.2S 9.2S t3.9S 22.20 19.'15 which we have waived yo 10.40 IUS 15.40 IJ.HS • ~ 2 . 90 20.Ml ur duty. 33 9.35 t4.40 12.95 IS.HO 14.20 34 tO.liS 9.(1() 14 . 9~ 2J.RO 21.40 lJA ~ III.JO 14.115 2 ~.411 NON-DISCLOSURE. If you fail to comply with JS 10.9S 14.1111 9.RS tS.70 14 . 1 ~ ~ . 20 your duty of di 36 ti.JS 10.20 lh.YO I 21\AII 23 . 7 ~ sclosure, and we would not have insured you Ill. SS IVXI 17.70 I ~ . 1 1~ 2R.Ill 2S.JO on any terms had the failure- not occurred, we may ca 37 tl.7S tO.(I() 11.45 1~ . 70 ncel JR t2.tS t0.9S. IR.511 11>.115 ~ 9 . 9 11 211.YO the policy within three yea rs of issuing it, or at any time if IH.MI 11\.15 19.. 111 I U~ ~H.Y~ J9 12.M 11 .41) J1 ..: !0 you 19.9S 17.HS 211..111 IR.!S .14 . 711 1.2 ~ r non-disclosure is fraudulent. 411 J IUS 11.95 21.25 19.1s 21.711 19 In this case we may, within three fears of issuing the policy, 41 14.30 22 .M ~ .55 ,11 .511 33.75 12.YO ~o .s 5 2.1.110 ~ 1.:! ~ ~ 0 . 7 11 311 . 11 ~ elect not to cancel it, but to reduce the sum insured to the 42 t $.4$ 13.YO 24.7(1 22.2~ 25 .YO 2J ..lll 44AII 3 9 . 9~ amou nt for which you would have been ·insured for the 43 16.70 14.95 211.75 23.95 2X AII 25 .55 -14 tR.lS 111.45 :IR.SII 43.65 prem ium paid, had you disclosed all relevanc matters to us. 29.1 5 211.JII JU II 2X. IS 5J .JII 41.95 45 t9 .7 ~ 17.RO .l i. R5 2R.IIII .14.50 .111 . ~ ~ 5~ . 7 0 ~ .:! . R!i 411 J4 . R~ 21.40 t9.2S J 1.35 .11.XIl J J l)~ 1• ~ . 7 0 ~ H. 2~ 47 13.25 HOW TO APPLY 20.95 3R. 20 .14AO 4UO l7 . 4 ~ 7) .411 114 . 4R 15.40 ~I.YO .10 22-ftS J1. 711 45.RU ~1.211 7R.RU 70.90 I. Complete and sign this Application form. 49 27.RS 24.95 ~9 . 9 5 ~1.4 0 511.70 4 5 . 1\ ~ non • 7R.30 2. Send it to: Reply Paid 238, The Official If ~ou arr aard brlwtta 20-29, pln.r rail Ocnnn· 1.1rr rr rr ur rhar~r un 008 022 566 rur •uur RSL Term Life Plan, Oceanic Life PffllliUIII f81fS. J)o•'l rora!t - If bo!h ~IIU and )UUr 'PCIU\f fnruJ. \CIII ,.jll t arh rrt•thr a .IOD'o Limited, P.O. Box 1560, North Sydney, discou•l o• your mo•lllly prrinium, , Your currt nl prrmium ,.;11 rrmai~ fi\fd rur S ~f"" · · N.S.W. 2059. No stamp is needed. 3. Seod oo money. Once approved, your cover is · l · OFFICIAL RSL free until I June, 1993. r8--=~ ------4. Be sure to p ost your Application before I . TERM LIFE PLAN APPLICATION FORM the enrolment deadline. YES- Please send me my RSL Term Life policy. I underscand chac chis does not obligate me in any way .and that I will have the ~pportunit y _e o examine my pol icy for up to Oceanic Lif<: Limitt::d I · 14 days before I accept 11. I understand that the msurance wil l ca ke effecc as soon as g Oceanic Life receives and approves my Applicacion. and 1hac my f i r ~ c premium will not be A. C. N. 000 005 I due until! June, 1993. Mr iM"IMh,IM' (PLEASE PR INT) Full Name------I Fint Middle I :1 , 1 Address------1 ------Postcode ___ ~ rt 1 ~ 1 tr, M i" l ~h I Daytime Phone No. ( Spouse's Name-- --: ::-:-- - -~ --:------I Date of Birth ------Age ____ Sex M ~ , F ~ I Fir" M i ddle La" d•ylmonlhlyc>r Date of Birth ------Age---- - I Occupation------Occupation------1 1 Cover Desired: ::J SSO,OOO 0 SIOO.OOO Cover Desired: ::::J SSO,OOO ::J SIOO.OOO I PLEASE TICK "YES" OR "NO" TO EACH QU ES TION ~ : ------;: ==Yo =u:::::;:=sp= o= u s=e~ 1 I 1. Have you ever had suspected, or been diagnosed as h aving Acquired I mmune Deficiency Syndrome; the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ami-body; heart crouble; high blood pressure; chest pains; Yes No Yes No -: kidney, bladder or bowel disease; diabetes; cancer; tumoun ; as thma or any lung disease; mental or I. I nervous disorders; epilepsy; alcoholism and/ or any drug dcpe . nden ~ e? . . 1 2. Do you engage in flying (other, than as a passenger ? n recogn1sed a~r serv1ces}, motor racmg, rock 2. climbing sky diving or any other hazardous pursuits? . 3 I 3. Are you ~nd e r tr eat~en t by any medical prac~ it i~ner , chiropractor or n aturopath, or do you, or have you · 1 recently taken any drugs, pills, tablets or med1cauons? 4. I I 4. Have you ever had application for life, accident or sickncss.insurancc declined, postponed or offered at 5_ increased rates? ? 5 Have you smoked at a ll in any form within the last 12 molll hs. . I I If the answer to any of the above questions is "Yes" please give complete deta ils, the na me and fu ll address of any doctors consulted and the I .da tes I of trea'tment. (If more space is needed, please attach a separate sheet of paper and sign it.} DECLARATION: 1 have read all the s tatem .e~ t s and an ~ wer s s h o , ~ n ~ ~ ov e . a n~. to the ~e s t of my_ knowledge•. they are true and complete. I I 1 hereby authorise a ny doctor, hospital or chn1c to prov1de Oceamc L1fe with m formation regardmg my med1cal history. Signature X _ Spouse (if included} X Date I I Available only to ·RSL Members and their Spouses who are Australian residents. APPLICATION: This adver1isemeot was issued on I Marcb, 1993. It will remain in foroe and can be relieO upoo for a period not exoeeding 12 mooths from I he dace of issue Applicacions for RSL Term Lire Insurance can onl? bc made on 1he relevanc applica1ion rorm wi1hin 1his advenisemena . Should I I material alceralion oe ~ ur in any fir 1he inf o rma~i o n conlaincd herein, which would resuh in I he documem becoming mislea'ding, il wi ll be wilhdrawn. The • R SL Term Life Plan does noc acan y s1age acqulf< aca - ~ h surrender value. ..

Are )IOfl between 50 and 75?------~---­ Oceanic Life ha~ a special programme for J1C!U too. ------See centre pages OR call free of charge on 008 011 566 for details. Llateftlng Po.t ..:.. A~mn 1813-Pege 5 <:•, '"' AUSTRALIAN -SHIPS AT WAR. THE COURAGE EXPLOITS THE -· __ ...... , :uc-··J ... JfHB .;'COLOURFUL CIRARACTERS - Ca ptured tn this splendid heritage book from. Australia Post -

ere's a fascinating account of Australia's naval and Hmaritime war vessels · th eir vital role in World War 11 and their courageous exploits in defence of Australia. Heroic actio ns, unusual characters - and mystery too. (What d id happen to HMAS Sydney I) With 40 pages o f te xt and pictures (including many fine paintings by noted maritime artists), White Ensig n is a valuable testament of Australia's N avy at war. And a fine record o f tre asure d wartime memories.

Special Stamp Issue: uships Of War"

T he heritage book is designed to a ccompany an exciting new stamp issue which features four famous Australian sh ips of war . a l igh t cruiser (T he S ydney), a corvette (The Bath urst), a destroyer (T he Arunta) and a m erchant navy ship (T he Centaur). ONLY The presenta tio n pac k o f s ta m ps-is o nly $3.95 e $15.95 avai l a~ l !ro m a ll corpo rate Post O ffices. Availab/( from all Post Offiets from April 7th 1 §93. 4") Australia Post

P~~ge 8 - Listening Post- Autumn 1993 -. PRIME -LD'E 50+ .... PLUS... An Exeeptioual fAtmmemor&dve - 1919 RSL lapel Badge Olfe~

• #- By popular demand, the Official Life Insurance Invitations to enrol will have recently been Programme of the RSL, Prime Life 50+, is once again delivered to your homes and all RSL members and being made available to members and their spouses their spouses aged 50 to 75 are guaranteed the between the ages.of 50 and 75. opportunity to review their full insurance protection This year we have added a speCial gift for those without obligation - your poli~y can be reviewed in members who decide to enrol -in this exceptional the priva.cy and comfort of your own home.without programme. The badge, in circulation from 1919 to the pressure of a salesperson calling. 1926,- was worn with pride by those who returned Arrangements have been made with Oceanic Life home from Work War I and became the founding Limited, the trus.ted company behind this official members of the RSL. lt has been specially created RSL insurance offer, for cover to take effect as soon for each member who applies for Prime Life 50+ as it receives your application form. cover. Jf you decide to keep your policy, your premium In the past 14 years, tens of thousands of RSL paym~nts will not begin until 1 May, 19~3 . members and their spouses have taken advantage To apply, simply return your completed of this popular programme... members who are application form before 25 April, 1993. You need concerned about the high cost of. their final send no money - Oceanic Life provides all RSL expenses and who want a plan at an affordable members with a free 14 day inspection period for monthly cost now. you to examine the Prime Life 50+ policy. And, Of course, the greatest test of any service to RSL regardless of your decision, your Commemorative members must be the judgement of the members 1919 RSL Lapel Badge is yours to keep. themselves. Their comments, shown on Tens of thousands of members have already pages· 40 and 41, are testimony to the important ·enrolled. Please review what many of your fellow security and peace of mind the Prime Life 50+ members are saying about the plan, on pages40 programme continues to provide. and 41. As an RSL member between the ages of 50 and 75, Forthoseofyou who have questions on this orpn you are unconditionally guaranteed acceptance in the RSL's special "Under 50" life protection, please the Prime Life 50+ Programme, without a medical call Oceanjc Life, free of charge, on (008) 022 566. examination or any other health questions. J I ---....Y . Assembly Areas - Aniae Bay 1993 .. •. ! ~ ( ~ BARRACK STREET ••• NAVAL• ASSN EXEC

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Their destination- Ja'panese• to Timor. His self-imposed search,.which · held Singapore. Their mission - to penetrate the was arduous and at times immensely frustrating,' harbour in sectet, one-man submersible craft and eventually took him thirty-on~ years to complete. In blow up sixty enemy ships. The party was confident. 1988, using his wealth of meticulously recorded The previous year six of them, including documentation, it was my very great privilege to commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonellvan Lyon, begin to un·ravel the story which, two years later, had carried out a similar raid - Operation "Jaywick" would lead to the publication of The Heroes of -which had -result~d in the damaging or sinking of Riniau. seven ships. . . lt was soon obvious to me that Major Nineteen days later, w.ith Hall's the preliminary part of evidence would necessitate a complete re-write of the operation successfully completed, ~he the accepted history if the submarine truth about Operation commander farewelled the raiders at "Rimau" was to be made known: I also Pedjantan Island, knew that to promising to return to an agreed overturn such a well b~ · rendezvous entrenched story would not in thirty-eight days time. A handful of easy. To research previously unknown Chinese and Malays and history is the conquering Japanese hard enough -to re-write what many believe to be were the only people ever to see the twenty-three the gospel truth.is difficult in the extreme.· again. Previous publication of certain "facts Unlike Operation " by various "Jaywick", the story of unscrupulous individuals who had access to Hall's Operation "Rimau" was destined to remain a early, but incomplete, research mystery material, and who for almost fifty years. With little evidence .had then breached his confidentiality (some for available, it has long been accepted that the monetary gain), had not "Rimau" helped matters at all. raid was an unmitigated disaster. Neither had a feature film, financed largely with According to the scant official post-war records, not Japanese. ·money. Endorsed by a returned only was the entire party lost but the raid was an servicemen's organisation (which ev1dently believed abject failure. lt was further stated that ten men who at face value the outrageous statements that the plot had been captured had talked too freely, giving was drawn entirely from documented evidence). the information to the enemy. Although these ten had 'film was long on action but pitifully short on fact. In been executed, it was accepted that the Japanese 1988, a brief Department of Defence publication on had done so reluctantly and only after trying the Operation "Rimau" had simply added· to the accused before a legally constituted court which qonfusior:~. Written from a pile of material deposited found them guilty of war crimes. The official reports by the story editor of a film company, it contained-as also stated that the beheadings had been carried out fact the same fictitious film scenarios to which Major in a style befitting Samurai warriors. The fate of Hall, in his capacity as consultant, had objected eleven of the party was unknown. · violent'ly, forcing the cancellation of the film. Although journalist Ronald whenw~itin.g McKie, a 1t is unfortunate that, bein·g in the public domain, somewhat fictionalised account of Operat1on such erroneous material has resurfaced "Jaywick" in 1960 made an attempt in a to uncover the television mini-series (yet to be screened in truth about Operation "Rimau", he was Australia). succes~f~l. lnc.lt.ided in the, at times,-dis,torted-action unfortunately less than Hampered b.Y a is the ludicrous assertion lack of detail and access that Lyon, who knew his to off1c1al documentation. wife was in an internment camp in Japan, was (a problem which he overcame by .guesswork and, obsessed with attacking at le~ . sel~ · Singapore because she was times sheer invention), and astray by imprisoned there. Consequently, there seeking affa1~· ·· are many Japanese concerned w1.th the 1t people who have been seduced into believing not would perhaps have been better ~~ he had ":'a1te.d carn~d only that activities depicted on the screen an~ in until further research had been out. W1th h1s various publications have actually unreferenced taken place but account simply reinforcing the many that the raid .failed and that captur~d rumours the men were that abounded, furphy soon became fach reluctantly executed in true Samurai style. Nothing Shrouded in mystery and distorted by hearsay, an could be fyrther from the truth. Operation "Rimau" would doubtless hav~ remamed a mish-mash of fact ·and fiction had former Major Hall's evidence reveals, among many other Major Tom Hall been a le~s stubborn facts, that a. raid on enemy !ihipping took place on individual. 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Pqe11-LiatenlngPo.t-Autumn1113,. raid of 1943 (o~rried out byi.iajor Ly.on and flvfi Operation "Rimau" cont men) w~s not being confuse~krlth an {lttack ~arried out by Lieutenant Colonel Lydn and six men In 1944. rrom PfGrsq'!Jal ~evenge but from a d~ep and pattiotic !his was ~chieved initi~llyby locati'ng a war crimes ·ove ·0 od, Kmg and Country· that almost all the 1~t~rrogat1~n rep~rt_ ~h1ch wa~ p~rt _of a 1,500 page · mformation'elletJedly voluntee;ed by the "Rim~u" f1le mto the mvest1gat1on of two miSSingAustrarians, men was already known·.to the Japanese; that the neither of ~horn, incidentally, belonged to m.en who were beheaded were put through a sham ~peration "Rin:tau": During lengthy interrogations tnal on trumped-up charges for no other reason than. m 1947-8 J.apanese officers had recounted.. to Allied to sav~ the collective Japanese face; that the investigators the details of people who had passed . ex.ecut1o~ , far froJl1 being a ceremonial occasion through their hands in , Java, where the was earned .out by lowly prison guards whose two missing) Australians were known to have swordmansJup left·much to Qe desired; that almost vanished. By the most amating coincidence one of all the part~ m~y .haye been saved had the pick-up the prisoners whom they recalled was "Rimau's" team done 1ts JOb properly and had lhe submarine Do!Jglas Warne who had beeri ca.ptured and takenJo ~omm~nde,r carr!ed out his o~ders: that the post-war Surabaya. The Japanese were adamant that Warne · !nvest1gat1o~ mto the disappearance was had revealed that he was one of the raiders but had m competent 1n the extreme; and that the Australian failed to reach his objective owing to the strong rip-tide. Army I in seeking fo dist·ance itself from an operation deemed to be a fairure, issued statements that · Major Hall, although elated to discover that the reinforced the myth that those executed had raid had been carried out (and that, according to the: · ~omm~tted W!)r crimes. 1t also reveals, for the first Japanese, three ships had been sunk) 'felt that such· ~1me . t.he fate of ~very man attached to the party, a startling claim, whfch flew in the face of all mcludmg the pa1r who reached Timor - not by accepted history, required supporting evidence - canoe but in a native sailing boat, evidence which did not come from Japanese . lt would be an understatement to say that sour.ces. In 1981 he travelled to where hei collecting the evidence was extraordinarily difficult. located eyewitnesses to the events of October 1944 ~ Not only was fhe · ~vaUable documentation The locals were only too happy to answer questions ~ fragmented and at times poorly catalogued but and revealed that, at dawn the morning after the· certain governmeot depar.tments were less than "Rimau" team had been involved . in a fight with helpful in making information available. In the UK, Japanese

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Page18-Llatenlng Poat- Autumn 1993 , involved in tbe fighting. The second assumption is Operation "Rimau" cont that an island· named Sole actually existed. No one could find it in 1945. Neither in 1960 could Ronald ~cKie . pick~d lt ~as on this trip too that he had .discovered the He simply an island on a map, named remams of one of the missing "Rimau" men at tt Sole Island and arranged the action to suit this Merapas Island - the submarine's rendezvous fictitious location. . · poi.nt. ~fter a r_ather hair-raising adventure, during The island where Lyon and Ross died was Soreh. whtch ttme he was arrested by Indonesian police . lt appears that the Allied translator in making the Hall m~naged t? bring the skull back to Australia: us~al al!owances for. Japanese pronunciation Forenstc analysts revealed that it oelonged to one of adJusted tt to Soleh, whtch was then transcribed as t"Yo men - Sergeant Colin Cameron or Sub• Sole. And S~le it has bee.n ever since, despite the Lieutenant Gregor Riggs. fact that ·no tsland by that name exists. . lt wa~ not only Indonesians who gave vital Anxious to see the islands for myself and to check m_forma~ton . A great deal of detail was obtained from the st~tements collected in 1981, I went witb Major !:i•~oyu~! Furut,a, t~e Japane~e interpret~r during tbe Hall to lndone.sia ·in 1989. Never once did those Rtmau mens mterrogatton ancL. tnal. In 1957 inte!Viewed in 1~89 . deviate from their previous Fur~t~ had written an article for a Japanese ston~s. Indeed, thts_ttme even more details came to magazme about the capture and trial of th~ men. lignt. We found two new eyewitnesses and knew by Upo~ publile to remember only a couple of fetters. claim by claim. Only then, c9uld his evide.nce be Achap drew· in Major Hall's notebook a symbol used. which we recognised as being the insignia of the On occasion, even factual s~atements made to . "Royal Naval Volunteer ResefVe, followed by G ... S. investigating officers by the ·Japanese could be Mr Achap ~ould . not possibly have known. but we misleading. The assertion that "By'coincidence alf · most certamly dtd, that one of the two men left on four parties met· on Sole Island where they had a Merapas was Sub-Lieutenant Gregor Riggs of clash with the Japanese. During tl:l~ ·engagement RNVR. Since Riggs was buried beneath the tree, we Lt-Col Lyon and Lt Ross were killed" has.led to some now knew that the skull belonged to Sergeant Col in very erroneous statements. The first is the Cameron. . assumption that "aH 'four parties" meant all the Achap's revelation.about Riggs' burial solved one "Rimau" team split into four, wh~n the Japanese last niystery.ln October 1945 an Allied search party actually.meant the occupants of four folboats (three had found the grave, marked with a wooden post containing two men and one containing Douglas and an oriental inscription, which led them to Warne). This figure is confirmed by other Japanese believe the deceased was Japanese. Word about the and by Major Hall's eyewitnesses. The remamder of grave had previously fUtered through to Furuta the party was safely back at Merapas and was not · whose imagination had worked overtime. Altering · U.tenlngPoat-Autumn1111-.....11 4. llay27-.luM3 (1.)'' Coll:$'1110 w.ICOft lnltlt Operation "E.imau" cont . the site to Soreh and the victims to Lyon and Ross ~ho s~ill lay where they had fallen, he told Allied mvest1gators tliat the pair had died in a blaze of glory (whic~ was true) and that the Japanese had J'made very fme graves for them" (which was not). "Rimau" men were marked·by very fine graves• those erected by the War Graves Commission. The bodies of #the ten who were beheaded were recovered and reinterred in Sinaaoore's Kranii War Cemetery, as were the skeletal remains of Lyon ·and Ross. Before long, two more very fine graves will be ere~ted in Kranji. _As a result of Major Hati'~ dedicated research and the evidence cited in The Heroes of Rimau, the War Graves Commission has already located the previously unidentified burial sites of Commander Donald Davidson an~ Corporal · A.G.P. Campbell, who died together on the tiny island of Tapai. We are most gratified to learn that i·n due course their g·raves, along with the rest of their comrades, will be marked with headstones befitting Heroes of "Rimau". (The Heroes of Rimau [Milner Publishing] is now available .· in limp edition, RAP $29.95. Lynette Silver's next book, Krait: The Fishing Boat that Went to War, has also been recently released.) Major.Tom Hall and LyneHe Ramsay Silver.

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Paae,22. - , Llatenlng Poat-~.mn 163 ' . ' The Korean War- 40thAmdve....., 1993 ro~~et~~~an pen~n~ula forms the natural invasion wi~h the New Ze~and Gunt ers ~nd the Tu~kish · country aspan {lnt t e Japa~ese had ocCUJ?ied the Bngade, the Chmese launched their spring h f . a pro eetorate ~mce 1910, agamst the offensive. w 1s es 0 ·•ts people. A Korean division broke bef9re the onslaught an et In th~ _break-up of the Japanese Empire, Korea the Brigade was deployed quickly to hold the was d1~1ded at the 38th parallel, with Russia Kapyong Valley, with 3RAR around the villa~e of controlling the north and America the south. Kapyong and the.2nd Battalion, Princess Patncia's On 25 June 1950 the Russian-trained and light Infantry from Canada holding the high ground Sl!PPIIed North Korean army crossed the border to the West. Without warning. The Middlesex Regiment.was in reserve and the In a swift campaign it occupied Seoul and drove New Zealand~rs provided fire support . . the South Koreans and their American allies into a By the evemng of 23 April a mass of disorganised defensive perimeter around Pusan. troops :"ere flooding past3RAR, closely followed by The ~inerica!ls called on the Security Council of the Chmese who w_ere soon probing the positio~s . the Umted Nat1ons for assistance to South Korea . A and B_Compan•eswere attacked more than nme The Russians by a grave tacticat error had walked · t!mes cfunng the night and h_eld their positions by out and so were unable to exercise their power of . f1erce counter attacks. B!!ittahon Headquarters was veto. · attacked· and forced to w1thdraw. · . Sixteen nations, in9l uding Australia agreed to After dawn on 24 Apri.l, the attack c(>,ncentrated oo send combat troops to fight under the United D Comp~ny on the nght flank. W1th the aid of Nation's flag in Korea. Other sent ·medical units. artillery !•re, D Company held on. After dark the rifle ·General Douglas MacArthur was appointed compames m~de a c lean break and withdrew Commander in Chief. through the Middlesex area. Australia committed an infantry battalion, a 3RAR _suffered 32 ~ill~d , 59 wounded and three fighter squadron and two warships. The Third take!" pnsoner. They mfhcted heavy c~sualties and, Battalion, T~e Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR) . more lm~orta~t { y , delays to the enemy advance. were preparmg to return to Australia from Japan at For th1s action 3RAR and the Canadians were the time of the invasion. awarded the United States Pre·sidential Unit They were reinforced with volunteers from Citation for extraordinary h~roism and outstanding Australia and aftert ~ aining in Japan moved to Korea · · performance of combat dut1es. on 28 September 1950. An equally proud tribute to 3RAR is the There they came under command of 27th affecti~nate nickname "Old Faithful". Commonwealth Brigade whose two British On 28 J~ly 1951 a Commonwealth Division was battalions had arrived from Hong Kong a month formed, w1th 3 RAR serving in the new 28th British earlier. At this time MacArthur struck a brilliant Commonwealth Brigade. counter blow with an a":'phibious\assault th_rough : . That ~onth truce talks began and continued at the Port of lnchon, cuttmg off and destroymg 13 Pa11munjon for the next two years. North Korean div!sions. He then drove his army ·In September 1951 the Division advanced from across the border mto North.Korea. the lineofth&lmjin River to the Jamestown fine In a The Commonwealth Brigade flew north to take series of well planned company attacks over' five part in this operation. 3RAR mounted on American days, 3RAR captured Hill 317 at a cost of 20 men tanks thrust ahead to relieve an.American paratroop killed and 89 wounded. unit, killing 270 North' Koreans at a cost of only 4 '!One ofthe most impressive victories achieved by wounded. The Brigade advanced with .stiff fightmg any Australian battalion. 3RAR dislodged a superior past the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. Arthe enemy from a position. of great strength ... probably northern-most point oftheiradv.ance the·Battalion · ~ the greatest single feat of the Australian Army Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Green, duripg· the· Kqrean War,"' according to Robert was mortally wounded by shrapnel. O'Ne!ll's book, AUSTRALIA IN THE KOREAN WAR, 1 The Chinese now sent "volunteers" across ·the 9So-;1953. · Yalu River from Manchuria to help the ·North The opposing sides now settled in strong static Koreans. The United Nations forces were initially .~~fe~ces whit~ the Truce Talks dragged on. 1 AAA successful against the Chinese 'but, in the ·bitter JOmea 3RAR m June 1952 and 2RAR arrived In winter weather of November, w~re sent reeling March 1953. . below the parallel. On 4 January 1951 the Chinese lt had be~ome a war of raids and patrolling but no captured Seoul. . 'l less 'dangerous for that. ' By early April however, the United Nations forces In two m~mths (May and June 1953) 2RAR and had driven them back across the parallel. · 3RAR t·ost 32 men 'killed and 157 wounded. The commonwealth Brigade.was now withdrawn The final fighting was in defence of The Hook into reserve but it was not to be for long. While the where the Chinese suffered heavy casualitles In Australians were preparin~ to celebrate Anzac Day mass attacks in the wee!( the armistice was signed . . LlstenlhgPOet-~illl'-ftetell LET·.-US tRANSFORM -· "" . YOUR HOME

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P-oe 24-Llatenlng Pott-Autumn 1113 KOREA Korean War cont. Number who "served" Source: Current Notes on overseas 14,087 International Affalra .. RAN 4,784 Vol. 24, No. 9 September, 1953 ARMY 7,724 pp 535;-536 Australia:s new Regular Army had passed its first RAN 1,579 test with flying colours. RAN No. 77 Sqn -at lwak'-'ni was the sole RAAF 2KIA Source: Robert O'Ne ill squa~r.on 3 Non-Battle Deaths "Australia iri the Korean War" in Japan when the Korean War broke out. 5 TOtal Deaths Canberra: Australian War · 6Wounded Memorial1981, Vol.2. The squadron's aircraft were being preparetl for the 11 Total Casualties Appendix J P.70 sea trip home but were immediately restored to ARMY _operational readiness and no. 77 was the first allied 276KIAIMPD Source: Compiled by squadron to go into action with the Americans. 1 POW Death CARO 2n Total Battle Deaths Using rockets and cannon, the Australians served 16 Total Non-Battle Deaths . In the ground attack role, moving from lwakuni, 293 Total Deaths Japan, to Pohang on the east coast 23POW of Korea in 1,210 WIA (includes 36 October 1950 and further north to Yonpo a month wounded twice) ·later ~s the ~llies advanced northward. With China's 1,526 Total Casualities entrymto the war the allies were pushed south again RAAF and no.77 Squadron established itself at Pusan 28 KIA/POW fi~ally returning to Japan in April1951 13 Non- Battle Deaths to re-e.quip 41 Total Deaths w1th Gloster Meteor 8 fighters which the Australian 6 POW Government had bought from Britain to replace the ageing Mustangs. Tollll Deaths (All Services) 339 =2.4 % The twin jet Meteor, however, was inferior to t he Tollll Casualties (All Services) 1548 =8.6% Wounded only. Russian built MIG 15 interceptors which the Chinese were using in increasing numbers. COURTESY: RSL HANDBOOK. On their return. to South Korea in July 1.951, the no.77Squadron p1lotsoperatedfrom Kimpo, near the capital, Seoul, but found their Meteors were outclassed by the MIGs. So, in January 1952, after losing several Meteors, the squadron's role was DIDYOUDOW? switched from interception to ground attack. The Meteors proved to be excellent aircraft for the The Honour Avenue in Kings Park was opened by purpose and were concent ~ ated mainly against the Governor, Sir William Ellison-Macartney on 3 l enemy supply routes, although they also attacked August, 1919. permanent installations. In 1921, the task of maintaining plaques, posts, The Korean War ended on 27 July 1953. In three etc. was taken over by the West Perth sub-branch of years No.77 Squadron had lost 42 pilots (32 in the RSL, largely through the instigation of Mr Peter Meteors) while flying 4,836 missions and 18,872 Ross. lt was later to become the Public Service sub• individual sorties. They destroyed 3,700 buildings, branch which now is merged.with Highgate whose 1,500 vehicles and six enemy aircraft. ~AAF Honour Avenue committee continues the role of Douglas Dakotas of no.30 Transport Unit (l~ter to maintaine·rs. . become No.36 Squadron), also served in Korea, During the twenties, members of the National carrying passengers, mail anp freight. In the Bank staff club made annual contributions to help medical evacuation role alone, the Dakotas carried with the upkeep. That practice continued until fairly a total of 12,000 wounded troops out ot Korea. recent years when, as a matter of policy, the bank Offshore the newly-acquired carrier HMAS took over the rol~ of donor! currently dof!ating $200 Sydney provided valuable close air support and per annum ~ w1thout wh1ch the committee could interdiction in hazardous conditions. The frigates not do its job. also performed well .in difficult inshore waters. In com.mon with all Western Australians, the bank's staff had made an unreserved..response to the call to arms between 1914 and 1918. Those who retu rn.ed undoubtedly had inspired their colleagues, and the next generation, to show their • respe,ct in supporting the committee which has always been run qn a shoestring budget. There are.22 plaques in May Driye in memory.of National Bank officers who lost their lives in World War I and 13 in Lovekin Drive in memory of those who died in World War 11. They were all sponsored by t~e bank. · · COURTESY: A. MAXWELL BRICE, Hon. Secretary, · Honour Avenue Committee. ·.·Listening _Poet-Autumn 1113-Pege 25 -...... /

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By ~ard Curedale &"'Eric Stallard - By...1 pm on 'September 16, both Divisions were On October 21, ari enemy sergeant and four theoretically in Lae, but ttle 9th ·. Division artillery troops were capturedi they gave information which continued to shell ahead of its troops. confitm'ed.that Major General Nakano-h~d escapf,!d Unknown to its battalion commanders the race ~o Sio· in one of fo!Jr.groups of the enemy rearguard . into the town had been won several hours e~rlier by which· .were later moved by barge from Sio to a patrol of the '7th Division. Madang. Further prisQners confirmed this · information and added that officers· had told the The SCE!ne which ·was played out that morning retrea_ting Japanese that Australians were cruel would have been worthy of a Hollywod movie set. A · • h sergeant leading a·patrol from the 212stl:l Battalion torturers and they must take their own 11ves rat er emerged in the image of an Errol Flyhn or a John than -be c~ptured . Wayne. · The town of Lae was found to be a shambles as His role is explained in a quote from Volume VI, of wastheairfield.and its buildings, where the hangers contained 40 destroyed and damaged planes. Vast "Australia-in the War of 1939-45"! . dumps of rotting matter and discarded equipment "At 10am, when the 9th Division was beginning covered the area. Salamaua, entered five <;jays to mass along the eastern bank of thtfl Bumbu earlier, had a foul ~tench, but the odour of Lae was River, ·a sergeant of the 2/25th Battalion boldly much worse. led a patrol straight along the main road, Great credit for the fall of Lae was due to the 3rd across · Diddyman's--Bridge, through th~ and 5th Divisions. The-ir dogged operations over an deserted town of Lae." extended pe'riod had drawn away the fitter of the The sergeanfand his patrol had put an end to the enemy troops and this allowed the Lae campaig11 to race to Lae. The 7th Division had won by a short be of short duration. Japanese base, which for: 18 head. General Blarney had backed the wrong horse months had threatened Port Moresby (and some but was well satisfied with his invasion. insist Australia (its well), had been eliminated at last. Allied intelligence- pressed both Di vision Duril')g the final assault, no fewer than ?5 commanders for information on the fate of Major- Australian Battalions, three US battalions anahwo General Nakano, the defeated commander. No ln(:lependent CofTlpanies, with support.troops, were reliable details on his whereabouts were known,'but used. Some post war historians were to comment the 24th Militia.Battalion had captured head,quarters· ·that" The AHies had used a sledge hammer to crack documents which gave details of enemy_defelilsiv~ awalnut", w.hen they committed more.than 50,000 of positions on the coast as far north as Madang; · the world's best assault. and pa~atroops to battle a Chinese labourers, abandoned by the Japanese.. ·nJapaiiese1orce which· did not exceed 16,000. The had informed interrogators that the main enemy ..keY to the·ovE!r-estimatic;m of enemy strength was to escape route was to Madang, via Sio. This route was come trbm American. High Command. Gener~l through very difficult high country, with peaks ov~r · . MacArthur's headquarters issued a comm~;~nique on 4 000 metres. The 2/4th Independent Company, 8 Septen'\ber 1943, which .stated in effect that patrolling the Rawlinson Range, fqund evidence to "elements oJ four Japane.se Divisions, aggregating confirm that the Chinese statements were correct. over 20;000men are no_w cornp_letely enveloped with The terrain of the Huon Peninsula is similar to.that. ,tt'leir.sw.ppJy lines cut." . ~tamey was .more realistic of the Owen Stanley Range but with. tl')e added ' and communicatea: ~·only battered remnants have disadvantage of having no source of water ~o that b~eh encountered and these were units already ..- any Japanese who stayed there would event~~I!Y savaged in. the .bitter and deliberately delayed, perish. Patrols of' the 24th and. 42nd M1ht1a Salama7Ja .fighting.'" . Battalions ha·d reached the he1ghts . of the Th.e 9th Di_vis.ion had received a very brief but formidable Range where the effect~ of ex~rem _ e co~d . •· .· savage intr:oducti9n to jungle warfare. One infan(ry on the retreating Japanese were ev1dent. An ~nemy .· unft ~ expres~ed tne· view in its war diary that "the transit camp 2,000 metres above sea level' was enemy had dor:te nothing tQ Instill respect during t~e found. Corpses were everywhere and ~~apons op_eration as his performance indicates ttiat he Is not stripped of everything that would burn lay~~ heaps: • ·,'ll\·as good as the Italian as a fighting soldier." Th~ The extreme cold had been known to. _kill loc~l · · juf:lgement;. ·aftell Lae tlad been evacuated, was natives and some were among ttl~ ~~bune~ , ~ead. ~ ~eing ry~ade of an)~l-fed.Jlnd b _ att~red enemy- not Patrols were withdr~wn when they reached~ . 100 ·, th~ · comp . e~ent, w.ell-led and equipped Jap~riese metres above sea level and the cold had become too soldie~ encountered by the Militia and later by AlF intense. troops 10 Papua. LlatenlngPost-Auhimn1113-·P;..27 ''I wouldn't be-dead INlNTI0 . • : . for .. quids. 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Page 28-L11tenlng Po1t-Autumn 1n3 . infantrymen and· ~6 artll1erymen into the. Markham V~lley (some without ev~n so much as one prior South West Pacific Area cont. pract1se jump), · A special order was issued by General Blarney on 19 September 1943 . The revise.d estimate expw8si ng his appr-eciation of a . of Japanese in the Madahg, job well done by the Navy, Militia and Fmschhafen, Salamaua and Huon Gulf Imperial Force Peninsula troops, the Air Forces a net the American paratroops. areas at the time the combined Allied offensive commenced He said: "lt was due tb'ttJe intensive bombing by the (16,000), included previously omitted Air Forces and their censtant naval men and labourers. The protection of the Navy 7th and 9th Divisions and Army from the enemy in the air; to inflicted at least 2,200 casualties on the defenders the strong of support of the Navy in transporting and protecting l .ae and almost 400 more Japanese died in the final the land forces drive by the 5th to vital· points; to the valour and Division through Salamuau. (The endurance of all those troops 3t'd and 5th Divisions had who fought over the killed 2,722 enemy troops severe mountain regions through Mobu, Komiatum during the Ridges campaign). To these figures and Tambu should tD Sa/amaus, ,to those who moved many be adaed the ;300 or more killed by Bena miles by sea and Force during by air snd.inarchedand fought the. its extended operations in the enemy tp'a finish at Lae itself. lt was Mark ham and Ramu Valleys and due to skilful the 1500 estimated planning· of the_ staff and the bold and able to have died from lack of medical attention and leadership of 'the malnutrition Commanders of all grades. The during the withdrawal across the enemy remnants ' fled and few will inhospitable mountain ranges. escape the hardship of the mountain tracks. Again the The 7th Division suffered 142 casualties (38 · superiority"of the combined Allied Forces has been killed) and the 9th, 547 (77 killed and 73 missing) . demonstrated. " during the operation. The high missing-in-action The attitude of the troops was changing figures of the 9th toward reflected the effects of enemy General Blarney who was becoming a much bombings of the lanc;iing craft and the men drowned appreciated leader. They in the Busu recognised. that the River crossings. The 3rd and 5th operation had been planned ~Y Divisions and executed a suffered 1604 casualties (482 killed). briliant tactician. The fall of lae had prov1ded Bad weather, and the flooded Busu River, had further relief from the threat to the Australian come to the aid of the . Japanese allowing their mainland and was a major step in clearing the evacuation of lae to be unmolested. The campaign Japanese military machine from New Gu i n~a . but was notable for it saw, for the first time in the Pacific much fighting was still to come before 1t was War, 96 Dakota planes drop 1,720 parachute completed. - .:. ALBION SHAMROCK MOTOR HOTEL. 37 MODERN UNITS & STYLE HOTEL ·ree * Aircond;toined Units * BBQareas * Swimming Pool * Spa & Sauna * In house videos & Sky * Colour TVs • * Phones & direct dial * Cocktail Bar * Function rooms * Palm Court Bistro * Full room service * Botdeshop s. Your hosts Mark Milne & janine Kleinsman As a community service th

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The Forces, notably m North Afnca but also m the following day the second day after the breakout European theatre~ of war. code-worded ' " Supercharge", showe~ that the As the sun was setting that afternoon, the Eighth enemy had commenced his withdrawal on the Army moved into its final battle stations with the 9th Australian Front. By 5 .November the news broke A~st r alian Division on the right and the 51st that all along .the front the enemy had not merely Highland, 2nd New Zealand, 1st South African and withdrawn to a new position but was in flight. That 4th Indian Division to the left. Behind these-were the evening in the 9th Division area a spontaneous Guy 1st and 10th Armoured. Divisions and farther south, Fawkes fir.eworks display of captured Italian flares the 50th and 44th British Divisions, the Greek and pyrotechnics ·celebrated the victory at El Brigade, then the 7th Armoured Division - the Alamein. D~sert Rats-and ~n the extreme left ofthe.line, the The intensity of the fighting on t t)efront of the 9th 1st Free French Bngade Group. Australian Division is evidenced by the fact that During the evening, General Morshead wrote to about one fifth of the total casualties of the Eighth his wife and said in part: " lt is now 8.40p1Jl and in Army were members of Morshead's 9th Division exac~ly two hours time by far the greatest battle ever AI F. The Division·~ casualties from 23 Octob~r untit fought in the Middle East will be launched." 5 November were 2,694-620 killed, 1,944 wounded The night was clear and illuminated by a brilliant, and' 130 taken prisoner. alm~st full moon. As the afternoon !ight faded . a In the first phase of the battle "The Break In;,, the hurned hot meal was served and start lines were la1d 9th Division bore with the other assault formation to the FUP and taped. ~s the leading Battalion their fair share of heavy fighting - during the moved forward, followmg the ta~es , a cool second phase, "The Dog Fight", the Division bore southerlybn~eze was blowing. As mght ~ell, the themainburdenoftheattackandinthefinalorthird noise of the Eighth . Arm~·s tran~port , which had phase, "The Break Out", it was engaged on all three been reverberating like. c1ty tr~ff1c, .les!'ened then attack fronts. During the second phase the Germans ceased. A strange sustamed qUiet re1.gned between made, and the Australians withstood, 25 attacks. the opposing armies In the decept1ve P.eace, the . . . ·illusion was created that time stood·still. tn silence, Dunng the 12 d~y.s of the battle the Artillery f1r~d men who were to go forward 'Waited as the mom~nt more than one m1lllon rounds at an average da1ly came even closer when t~e guns in concert would rate of 102 rounds. per gu~ . . . strike the first c~ord of thiS harsh ov.erture to battle. Major Gen~ral S1r Franc1s de Gumard, the Ch1ef ~f - In an instant at the stroke of 2140, flashes from Staff of the E1ghth·Army and Bernard Montgomery s· hundreds of gu'ns were seen ~par.kling in a long line Chief .Staff Officer, said of the Australians at across the desert. As a qwet mterval follows a Alamem; lightning flash before the thund~r roil is heard, so "The Australian attacks went very we!l, gro~nd the sound of the guns took t1me to reach the b(!ing gained and very hea~y casual~1es bemp infantry. . , inflicted on ~he enemy. In th1s area t~e ener:ny s For 15 minutes the guns continued uninterrupted; defences were v~ry strong .. and . their garnson dd nl ther fell silent. There was a breathless preponderanti.Y German. I thmk th.IS area saw'fhe SI.! e Y · · 1 their fuel was spent. Five minutes most deter"!med and SB:vage f1ghtmg of . the stlllneJsa~~ then at 2200 two searchlights that campaign. No quar:ter :-vas g1ven and the Australians pa~se d Ion still fingers into the-sky above the fought some ~~ the fmes.t GermB:n troops m we.ll P~lhnt~ Arm ~s hidden battle array swu~g inwards, prepared .POSitions to a stan~stlll , and by their ~lg t t dy d stopped forming a pointed arch act1ons · d1d a great deal to wm the Battle of el mtersec e an • . 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· MONDAY 4/1/1943 c~n _ certs , i~ is drawn in front of the screen along the Another eventful day. The Chungkin leaves at ra1ls. At the back and sides of the hall are planks eight o'cloc_kfor Derby and one of the Beaufort arranged li~~ seats in a_circus for the Aborigines. bombers from Noonkenbah comes down on patrol Altogether 1t IS a very enJoyable evening and we get w~ile two of the Brewsters take off as escort to th~ home by 10.30 p.m. - sh1p. Today we succeed in getting the mainQictr'le off after much hard work and are now removing the oil tanks from the structure. TUESDAY 5/1/1943 The work is going along well. So far . We don't go for a swim we have this evening because the cleaned up two Liberators and one Flying Fortress, Armx puts on a pic_t4re show, quite a good one, and .tomor~ow we start on a Doug~as DC2, which ,desp1te stoppages of three or four minutes every won t, I hope, take very long as there is not much to time the reel is changed. salvage. ~~ - kill a carpet snake - today· the sixth · The theatre itself is unique. Called Sun Pictures, it snake accounted for on the trip. is situated right in the centre of Chinatown.. lt appears that at one time the Roebuck and the Continental Hotels used to run a show on alternate WEDNESDAY 6/1/1943 nights. Things are certainly looking up. We have a 1 One night the proprietor of the Roebuck. showed a Lockheed .come back from Derby with a lady picture when it wasn't his.turn, so the other man passenger-the first white-woman we have seen since tmmediately bought the present place and put the -we left Onslow. apart from the Sisters at the Mission. Roebuck out of business as far as pictures were Later in the day, a mail plane from the south comes concerned. · , in with a woman and child on it.. They are on their way to Der~Y . and l~ave agaifl at sundown i The hall to , whic.h is ·about 5 feet long and 40 feet . complete the1r JOurney, the· p.lane wide is also returning here by ver)' unusual. There are two prices 8 o ' clo . c~. The Brewsters 1 s. all go back to Pearce and 6d., for the Aborigines and coloured people, and once more we are left in solitude. 2s. 6d. for whites. The white people sit on the left · th ~ DC2 side of the harf·on cane chairs with cushions, and the We finish work on and today we do what little there is to do ·on· a Lock heed and a small Aborigines and ooloure~ people ~n the right on t ordinary garden Stinson Reliance. All we get off the Lockheed is part seats w1th a barner betwee·n the . th~ two groups. Inside_ the ent~ance is an ol~ - fash!o':'ed of elevators, and off the Stinson one wheel, · complete soda fountam (not operatmg), and behmd th1s ts a · with tyre.· gallery of photos of actresses from the dim and I come across- a brief paragraph in an Eastern distant past -lrene Castle, Mary Pickford etc. The States paper in connection with this job. A chap by hall is equipped with big fans, which are very · t~e ~ame of Harry Matheson apparently rescued welcome. In front of the.screen ar~ some iron rails . f1ve ~omen from t~e planes which were in the bay at and to the right is . a big stage, complete with . the t1me. of the ra1d. He swam out to the planes in footlights etc. When the stage is required-· #or spite of the burning oil ·on the water. He was Llatenlng PO.t-AutUmn 'tiN-Pege 17 ·tLIMDOWN *Slim Spray is the first of it's kind (anywhere in the wor1d). Convenient, s-ucCESSFULLY easy to use and instant, ~ Slim Spray, with it's ' I natural peppennint flavour 100% NATURAL helps give us a l)lbnl AND boost of energy while BOTANICAL CLINICALLY reducing food cravings. Revolutionary new Weight FORMULATED FOR Management Programme * Helps maximise Distributed by digestive efficiency by SUCCESS cleansing the digestive. tract. When taken with GRACE ·FOR MORE INFORMATION water prior to meals, PHONE INDEPENDANT Fibrelose .2000 forms a OISTRUBUTORS: natural fibrous gel to COSMETICS create a cOmfortable 535 1249. feeling of fullness.

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Her eight-year-ol9 brother, who was not injured, was with.her, but in another part oF the hospital their moth~r and father were dying. The a!terwards·treated for burns, and left without giving little girl recovered b'ut the parents died al)d this h1s name, but the Dutchmen managed to find him chap said he heard the little boy say to his sister, further down the coast and rewarded him with a set when they were told their parents had died, "We've of compasses and hair brus.hes. From what 1 hear got no Mummy and Daddy now but never mind, I will there ·are about 20 planes in the bay. Apparently look after you." . . they were waiti~g with their passengers already The other incident was in connection with aboard for the a man p1lots to come down when the raid "'from Manila who found the body of a little girl took ~lace on the and all of them were destroyed with most beach. He buried her, then took her identity disc of the1r pas~engers . to According to reports more th-an the police. The man who- told me about this had to 50- women and children were killed in these go out .later · machines. · and bring the body along with several others for burial in the Br()ome Cemetery. He said Bill Ansell and I have been down to the Chinese he almost hadn't had the heart to disturb the gir's quarter and while there had a most delightful drink grave. He had placed bottles filled with flowers in a pint glass. lt .was about a quarter full of around it and had renewed the flowers daily. When raspberry co'rdial and the rest was crushed ice. lt's at last the grave had to be opened it was found that the best drink I've- had for a long time and only cost about three feet under the surface an old door had' 6d. been placed over the body, making a vault so that the eartH would not fall on the face of the child. These thi.ngs THURSDAY 7/ 1/ 1943 (P.ay day) make one realise the curse of war and We have been working ·on the Lockheed all day. drink. To think thatwomen and children died, as it is After this there is one more job, a Dutch Lodestar, alleged, while men who were responsible for their whic.h should not take long. Tomorrow we are going safety were in a hotel drinking is terrible. An to have a look at the machines in the bay as the tide American commander of an aircraft is reported as Is very. low now. . saying to his men, "You and I and others in authority are At 12.p;clock responsible for this. lt should never have we go for a swim in the pool in about happened." 15 feet of water. lt is jolly good. Tonight the lads and I go to look at the aircraft in the bay but, with the tide starting to turn, we only get FRIDAY 8/ 1/ 1943 to one of them. So we come back AT -?am the boss, Sgt Bowler, and I walk and have a look at out to the the Chungkin sitting high and dry end of the jetty to look at the aircraft in the on the mud by the bay. We jetty. She had come in this morning climb llo~n some steps to at 11 o'clock the sea bed and walk out from Derby and is due to leave for the about anotl:u;"r' mile to a Dornier flying-bo ~ t. south tonight but we at midnight. Most of the boys have never seen a boat might fust as well·have stayed away. The aircraft is left on the mud by the tide and they wonder why it all broke Q- · J.:.I P, ' an ( :f ~ bso!utely covered with shells and ~ny doesn't fall over. . barnaele9. Nothing of use, and the others are '· the same . . ;. ' · · · · Today . · ~ w hile we are working on the ·-'.Dutch - ~: SATtJRDAY 9/1/1943 ~ destar , -a:n old chap from the town cqmes u·p and Topay we finish pulli'1.Q the Lodestar -..:.. our starts yarning away last to us about the raid. He was on machine-~ · to pieces·.Now comes the packing of the aerodrome the at the time of the raid and had just parts and the crushing and baling up of scrap metal. ridden up and parked t)is bike against a roller near While packing up some of the burnt-out parts I find a the hanger when the alarm was given. He imm~diate ­ compass, Nobby Clarke a gold sheltertrenche~ wristlet watch and lystarted.to run for some but, as he_ Mr Bennet a flare pistol. Later on in the day, said, Nobby he was an old man and he hadn t gone far finds an old shirt with about 20 pounds in English before his wa ~ wind gone and he.had to stop. But he bank notes in it. Althougl:l scorched, they are still t~e ·could see where the. bullets . from J~panese good and the numbers still visible, so he may be able planes were hitting the groun~ JUSt pehmd h1m so.he to claim their value. 'dashed off again and got behmd ~tree. The b~llets were coming within ten feet of h1m but luck1ly he wasn't hit. . 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On.Anzac'Oay, 1990, Australia watched a telecast Cape Helles, on the high bluff overlo?king th~ direct from Anzac Cove, Gallipoli. lt made a Aegean, that the Turks built their memonal t~,thel~ powerful. iQ1pact on millions of viewers, who still own dead. They call it "The Shrine of Martyrs . · speak of 1t. Tens of thousands of Turkish names are graven I was on Anzac Cove that morning and the 'on the walls. But it 5Peaks for all the near-mUiion experience remains indelible. I was riot one of the men who fought each other so savagely for eight official party, but a member Qf a small historical terrible months. lt is not well realised -that almost gro~p that had ~one in search of Gallipoli. We half of this million were casualties - and half of sought rio limelight, but aroused considerable those were killed. interest wherever we went. An American woman Here, today, international leaders were gathered. asked' us who we were, and where we were going; Our own chosen veterans were there. Thou~ands of "Gallipoli! I have heard of that. Tell me about tourists or pilgrims were there. The whole ceremony Gallipoli". She co.uld identify our story with her own was carried .out with great dignity and beauty. aspir~tion to visit Pearl Harbour. A practical woman, Words· of peace and reconciliation were spoken. she wanted to know who had financed our Our third stop was to be at noon at tne A!Jstralian pilgrimage. I told her each of us had our own story cem~tery at Lone Pine. We drove slqwly back to the abou.t that a·nd I pointed to a young student, Shsree, meeting place. Th~ Gallipoli p.eninsula is largely a who had worked and saved for a year for .this National Park today, but. small farms carry on. j6urney, and when there was still a gap she sold her. quietly and .olive trees are guarded carefully. lt was a little pony. "She sold her pony? Oh my God, what a warm spring day and the wheat fields were just beautiful thi.ng to do." She called to her husband coming out in ear. The small field~ were bordered by earl and her friends to "come and h_earthis." I think ~ill a wealth of poppies, millions of them. I have never she repeat that story a hundred times in the seen poppies so red. Perhaps even this was a years ahead. And so' the Gallipoli legend lives and symbol. grows. . Already buses were gathering ahead of us at Lone We pushed on in the steps of the firs·t Anzacs to Pine. Already the Australian. Prime Minister was their camp by the foot of the Pyramids i·n grotty, there,_with two friendly hands reaching out to all. We overcrowded cars and across the Aegean to were all equa.l Australians, on a spot that is almost Lemnos and into Turkey. We went via Istanbul part of Australia, 10,000 miles from Canberra. (Constantinople) where the allies had wanted to go, but never did. . Here I did something I had long resolved to po. Our party left lnstanbt:ll by bus forthe250km d·rive That was to break away from the crowd and find 'my to Anzac Cove to be there for the daw'n of April25. in way from this crest of Lone Pine down to Anzac the event, we had to spend the nigtlt 140kms from ·Cove. If Anzac Cove was where it all began, Lone . our destination: every bit of ·lodging nearer was Pine was where their final effort to burst out was booked out. I saw three Australian girls coming out halted by the Turks. This was in August, 1915, four of a shop in a small toWf!, be~ring armfuls of _ ~lowers . months after the landing. Here the fiercest fighting Their identity was as obv1ous as the flag they of all the campaign took place, where Turk and displayed. · Anzac fought each other to exhaustion and to a stalemate. Seven Australians .won the· VC on this We were woken from a brief sleep at 1.00am, to be terrible ridge (less than 10 were won in the whole on the beach by 3.00am. We watched the slow grey campai.gn). The Turks call it "Bloody Ridge." The dawn and the lights of small boats.come acro~s the los·ses were enormous. Never again would either. dark-waters at 4.30am, the actual·t1me of=land!nQ 75 side make a concerted effort to throw the other off years ago. Personally, _I· felt the near-tang_lble the ridge: The Turks held the higher ground, only a emotion of the memones, of the fear, of .the few metre~ from the Australian trenches. sickening waste that lay ah . e~d: A lone bugler sounded the Last Post. Surely th1s !s.~ne of_the m.o~t Wjth two young Turkish men, who declared they haunting laments of tt)e human ~pmt, PO!gnant m knew the way, we slipped away on our mission, and any time and place, but-here, a~ oaw!l, where once on .what must surely be the u.nique walk of all .cries of agony pierced the mght, 1t was almost GallipOli. unbearable. · -Our path led through a young pine plantatron. 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Pege 41-Listening Poet-Autumn 1113 ' grave. The others are not less important. The Aegean laps quietly against er low se~ wall. I jumped Gallipoli cont. down on to the beach. This is Anzac Cove. lt is the focus of it all. Here' they first landed, and·kept on landing just here in the Everything was here. lt .just needed silence to be mo'nths to come - thousands of them. Not merely thought upon, prayed about. One needed time to "them"- the soldiers _:_:lbut animals and stores, in digest all one had heard an et. read about Gallipoli hundreds of tons. From here they set out, to here and its tragic event~ · they returned. . To my left was tlie ridge that runs up to the high Finally, they returned ~ere. They came down from peak of Lone Pine. Away to my right the ridge that fhe trenches in trickles, in gathering streams, in tens leads to the Nek and Sphinx. Dropping away to my and hundreds and thousands. They came with their imroediate right is the famous Shrapnel Valley. feet wrapped in sacking to deaden the SOl-!nd of their · Up this valley, men made their way to the front departure, with the bitter taste of defeat in their' trenches; little mules with their handlers ·dragged souls. They left behind vast stores of supplies. the precious canvas water bags, and the heavy Ju'st along. th~ beach, a detail 'of soldiers were_ burdens of war: ammunition, food, equipment. They silently cutting the throats of a thousand horses and did it under constant threat of death. mules. And so they slipped away into the dark, In this valley, the fight went on day and night for almost at the very hour they came, the last leaving at eight months. I mehtally listed the hazards. The 4.00am on Sunday, December 20. (The very last was enemies our soldiers had to- contend with. The the Queel)slander, Littler, but others had begged to almost total absence of water. No water to wash stand by till the end). clothes or body. The vermin. The dead. The stench lt was With something of all these memorjes I of death. The myriad black flies in food, in mouths, turned my mind to the last things I wanted to do on in eyes. The diarrhoea and dysentery that plagued this very spot, to pass on to others a beautiful 75% of them, to the point of exhaustion, and all the memory. time the war to fight. The noise. The fear, and finally, I climbed back to the little beach cemetery. In its the fatalism. centre stands a shady oak tr ee. There I placed a The fear is real. One veteran told me an stone, and spread a white cloth, and lit a candle, and unpublished story. They were coming in on the little prepared the Mass book, with the bread and wine. boats in 'the darkness, just after the May offensive, My two Muslim companions asked, "What is this?'! lt when the Turks had tried an all out attempt to drive was not the time to explain what the Mass is all the Anzacs into the sea. As they drew towards the about, so I quietly lifted my hands and face upwards. beach, the noise was fearful, the stench of death They understood, and asked could they share. They drifting over them. One young soldier left his seat watched with curious but reverent eyes as they sat a and quietly squeezed through the ranks, j gnoring few feet away. The flowers were on that little altar. the murmurs of "sit down!" He quietly stepped over "Calling to mind the blessed passion, death and the edge, weighed down with pack and rifle, and resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ..." disappeared into the black waters. How many such things must have happened. Most were ju~t 19 or 20: What a place to say Mass. What a cloud of witnesses were gathered around that little altar. If it was "up this valley", and "in this valley" that so 11 They were almost tangible. Those this who suffered and much happened, it was also "down . v~lley that died here. Those whose hearts suffered, and died, in even more happened. lonely outback homes of far Australia. Down this valley the wounded and sick were The Turks set out back to Lone Pine, with hauled, day and night, month after month. Down instructions that the bus would meet me nearby at this valley a young Englishman-become-Australian 3.00pm. I visited some of the graves and then swam aged 22, led his little donkey carrying out the . in the sparkling waters of Anzac Beach, the round wounded. He did it for three weeks, until a sniper's stones beneath my feet, and stretched out in the bullet pierced his heart. His mates buried·him down warm sun. Not another. person in sight. This by the beach. 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P8ge 48-Uttenlng Pott-Autumn 1113 ·8th. -. AnstraHau Division AS•etatJon. "' . . ' . ~ That Field MarshaU Lord Wavel is dead is·most Singapore, Hong Kong ·and Shanghai were all regrettable, especi~lly so when the subject matter of indefensible. Neville. Chamberlain, the then.. this supposed secret report to .the late Sir Winston Chancellor of the Excheq'uer, insisted that "careful Churchill in -1942 is now released to the world. He economic management' was. more lfT!portant than . cannot be · called upon to qualify his dreadtul defence spending. THAT is when Singapore was· accusations which demean the 8th Australian lost. Division, charginQ them with cowardice in. the face The impregnable fortress was a myth which did of the Japanese mvaders and declaring that they not deceive the Japanese. They were fully ~ware of were responsible for the fall of Singapore on 15 the fabrieation. That 'is all history now. ·r T~ February, 1942. allow these accusations to be In those final chaotic days·in. February 1942 it is made under the protection·of "50 years ago" rules is not unlikely that a few stragglers, terrified through indeed a supreme act of absolute cowardice, and to_ lay th.e blame Jor the debacle of Singapqre on the continuous aerial bombing, machine gunning and Australian 8th Division simply defies logic. artillery fire, did misbehave badly. To suggest such ·behaviour was limited to Australian personnel is In his diaries the Japanese Commander, General supreme stupidity. Yamashit~. said "This battle of the Muar was the During that campaign no soldier of the ·8th most savage of the whole campaign ... Colonel Division 'gave' his life, but they sold them to the Anderson, the commander of one of the· Australian enemy a~ a very high price indeed. Every one of us battalions, 2/19 Bn, was awarded the highest British can arid should be tremendously proud honour, the Victoria Cross, for the gallantry of his of our record ..With heads held high, every wife, child or battalion." Australians ki'lled in action here alone relative of ours can share that pride with us. · . were 647 and hundreds were wounded. Is this the st~ff of cowardice? PRESIDENT: K. Meakin, K. Gray. 8th Division Association. General Yamashita could speak with authority• he was there. Wavell was not: When Singapore was. in its death throes, Wavell popped in for a look around. On February 19 he said "No surrender. Fight to the last man, the last gun an~ th_e last shilling", had a cup of tea, returned to h1s a1rcraft and popped off again to a safer place. On Singapore Island the 8th C?ivi§iOn upheld ~he proudest traditions of our nat1on. One battalion alone lost 245 men killed in action. The battle for Sinagpore was bloody and.savage Remembe..u.g the Dag for both sides. Forced to withdraw -to an eventual perimeter around the city pr0per, the six AIF they defended battalions, the gunners and all the Ull'l its, held firm Lower the flag to half mast now, · and solid. They were . magnificent - to say Pull down the-southern Cross, otherwise is to lie. To say they broke and deserted There's more to grieve than the Sun their posts is outrageous and contemptible. To say God's son, the AIF was responsible for Singapore's fall is Or a nation's ritual loss. ~ idiotic. The British War Cabinet had decided i,n 1936 that, in the event of Japan entering the war, lt's Sayonara to our pride, And.an end to memory A government's. greed for the mighty yen, Has crooked the official knee. And we must bow to the force of trade, Gallipoli cont. . The divine wind sweeps our shore, f=or now in peace, We are.set to lose, what we fought to The last words belong to Sheree. As we flew home defend in war. - with a renewed love for 'home' in ?ur. hearts ~ I With folded hands and lowered eyes, asked my young friend about our p1lgnma~e. D1d We acknowledge the Rising Sun, she have any regrets about selling h·er pony . · While ten thousand skelet'l ghosts of the "No. And already I am planning to_save ~o come past are rising one by one. back for the centenary. I'll probably be mamed then, They hold aloft in their bony hands, ... with a family. I'll bring them, too. That. will be {n The flag th'at they died to save, · 2015." • We left it with you tQ hqnour they shout, And so the Gallipoli legend becomes even more But it is safer with us in the grave. . deeply a part of the leg~nd of Australia. LUKE FAY C.SS.R. Llatenlng.. Poat- Autumn 1113-Pllge 48 ' j STILL THE LOWEST RATES ON THE GOLD COAST S180 per week per couple

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0~ the ~orning of 29th April1915 we landed on And then I saw, oyerthe.same ridge, bla_ck against Turkish so1l at Hell Spit, at the mouth of Shrapnel the sky, ·what appeared to be flock after floc;:k of Valley. · · tumbler ~ pigeons in flight - empty shrapnel EnQineers •. d_octors, la~yers, are given years of canist~rs turning over and over after they had been tech111cal tra1ntng before they are turned loose to exploded above t.he Anzacs. lt was an extraordinary practJse. their" profession; here was· I a Canadian spectacle·: Now I knew where the valley had Lieutenant in the R.N.V.R., in ch,arge' of thirty me~ obtained its name. about to go int9 action, with only five. months' At the top of the valley, just below the ridge, we sk~tchy training and no practical experience to met our headquarters staff from the lnkosa, arid sat guide me. down to await further instructions. The first man in We were the only unit landed at this time, and with our unit in action was Surgeon Pain. l'n a-sort of our goods and chattels around us, bunched shall.ow bowl formed by a fold ·in the ground the together for comfort in what must have been a wo~nded ":'e~~ lying thickly. ! n this space every little forlorn.-looking little group, we · wait~d for wh1le a wh1rnng empty shrapnel case would thump, somethmg to happen. We h~d no idea where to go, spent bullets.would fall, and snipers' bullets would or how; or what we were expected to do when we got crack across. Pain stripped off his tunic and set to there. But although our unit was small we had six of work. We rigged up a few waterproof sheets as a the most destructive weapons available; six of the shelter and left him to it. lt was a place where one did very latest thing in machine-guns, superior to not want to loiter. , anything on Gallipoli. We were told that a tremendous Turkish attack We waited impatiently, and as the light increased was expected, that the Turks were going to try to so did the rattle of rifle-fire. . drive the Anzacs back into the sea, and that we were to put gun-pits in carefully selected positions in Then arrived a tall New Zealander, who said he Shrapnel Valley. We should be·expected to fight the was our guide and that our headquarters were at the rearguard action if the worst came to the worst. top of Shrapnel Valley, where it branched into Monash Gully. At that time these names meant Cheery information! So we dug gun-pits. nothing to me. · While I was resting from a spell of digging an Aussie came and sat down beside me. I handed him We picked up our machine-guns, tripods, and a tailormade c•garette. In return he gave me good ammunition boxes and followed him into the moutfi advice. of Shrapne·l Valley. The ground was everywhere covered with arbutus, dwarf holly-oak and stunted "If I was you," said he, 'il'd take off that belt, and pine, from three to twelve feet high, and so thick in that tunic, and that cap." places that to force a passage through was "You mean my Sam-Browne and my naval cap?" 1 impossible. asked, for I was very proud of them. . As we advanced up the valley the sides closed 'in "And your tunic too," h~ continued. "This and became steeper. We came to a place wh·ere a country's so bloody rough, and so full of blasted spring had made a little bog, and I saw that a dozen snipers, that you never·know when one is going to or so rifles had been thrown down to act as stepping spot you. They're well h·id and don't often shoot us. ston~s . We had no rifles; we had· revolvers and Officers is the1r m.eat. If I was you, cobber, I'd take automatic pistols, but I had never liked the nasty, 'em 'off, and then they can't tell you from the rest of short little weapons, believing them to g,ive a false your mob.'; · sense of security, and therefore to be more lt was sound advice and I .took it ~ . it struck me 1 dangerous to the man using them than the man they should be more u.seful as a live machine-gun officer were used against. I picked up one of the rifl.es. lt without any insignia of rank· ttian as a dead one was short and felt beautifully balanced, so I passed dressed up like a plush horse. A khaki-coloured it to one of my men to carry and clean. lt proved to be balaclava helmet made a fine inconspicuous turban a handy and accurate weapon; I used it for sniping, in the · aay~ime to guard my head against blows of the and believe 'its possession saved my life on the last sun, al")d at 'hight, pulled down, would protect my . day I spent on Gallipoli. neck fr.om th_e_cold. Th·ls ~eadgear in· time became As we neared the head of Shrapnel Valley, which splendidly. ~tamed and dirty and took.on the colours is approximately three-quarters of a mile from Hell of the g . r ound . ~nd scrub, so that-it was a great·help Spit 1 hea~d a continual rustling in the scrub on when observations had to be made. each side. lt was as though a high wind were· L~te that afternoon I had my first experience o{ blowing acros~ the slopes. ~ut not a breat~ of .air being U!lder machine-gun fi:re." lt was undignified was stirring. W1th a start I realised that tpe no1se was andcostly. . made by a continuous stream of bullets coming over .courtesy: Blsc_kwoods the top of the ridges in front of us and .driving through the foliage. · • contlnutid next laue Uatenlng Poet-AutUmn 1113-Pep53 SalisiJ~ry Rest Home ARE YOU INTERESTED ·. . 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The following is a speech made in 1946 by Wing During the ensuing weeks, whilst we were waiting Commander Robert Holmes, CO of No. 455 for a ship, we were able to observe the people and Squadron, RAAF, of the squadron's experiences on their customs. We invited the General and his staff the Russian Front in 1942. .. over to a dinner when the Russian Ordinance In August 1942, an Australian long-range torpedo supplemented our tinned food with smoked salmon bomber squadron was operating from the east coast and vodka. of Scotland at leuch.ars in Fife. lt was beautiful Apparently wh~n drinking vodka (which we had spring weather and, when not operating, we played not tasted before), it is the custom to drink the · quite .a lot of golf with our colleagues in the RAF, health of someone in one gulp. If any is left in the which also had a squadron engaged on the same _glass, it means bad health to the person to wh'om work. . you are drinking. lt had a.terrifically high alcoholic Early in the. month, the CO of the station COf'ltent; by the time we toasted one another, most summoned both squadrons and told us to prepare people were slurring their speech. However, a to go overseas. terrific feast ensued and, except for a few casualties, it was a very pleasa·nt evening. lt appeared the whole German Battle Fleet was Next- the Russians invited us to use their baths, situated in the ·northern fjords of Norway and visit the theatre and look presented ov.er their town; from then a serious menace to our convoys to on we had one bath a"nd two visits to the theatre each Russia. This was when Stalingrad desperately week. wanted material from America and EnglaRd. The The people all lived in Jury convoy had been attacked by this battle. fleet, community. barracks, ate in with 30 of 35 ships sunk community kitchens, and had their clothing and . Our two squadrons cigarettes received orders to proceed to North Rus~ia . issued to them. In fact, everything was issued to them by the government. Everyon~ was . At dusk on the 3 September, 34 aircraft and crews employed by the government and money was no 1 left the Shetland Islands bound for Kandalaska on good except in Mosco_wand a few other big cities. the north shore of the White Sea. The weather We saw a couple of English films - one I forecast was bad, and we were without any wireless remember was "Charli~'s Aunt" and although they assistance from Russia. ·lt was a bad night and we loaned us their theatre for the evening, no Russian lost 10 aircraft in all, due to ack-ack and the weather, was permitted to join us because this .would have but 24 crews arrived at Kandalaska, most of whom shown him how the other half of the world lived and had been sho~ at by the Russians as their system of · it. was a principle of the Soviet Union to keep this communication had broken down and they had not information from most of the people. No-one could been informed we were coming. leave Russia without permission ~ which was not We were informed that the German lines were granted without good reason. seven miles away and we could sleep 1or three I often saw companies of women in uniform, fully hours, but we had to get away.by one o'clock as .the equipped, marchin.goff (with rifles) to take their turn Germans might come over in their tanks and crush in the front line, and they were all singing. AI~ this our aircraft into the ground. We took off ri~ht on one time the air raids went on and the days got shorter o'clock and proceeded to Vianga, 150 m1les north, and colder whilst we waited for our ship. Eventually _,. escorted by a Russian bomber. we had daylight from 11.30am to 2.30pm. 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P119e 58-Llatenlft9 Post-Autumn 1H3 ·DEFENCE ISSUES • · The bale requirementa of an Auatrailan Defence Policy By Peter Firkin•, C,.lrman, Defenct~ Committee. lt would seem imperative that the RSL should be 4. . That the RAN's planned seagoinQ strength be much more vocal than hitherto in its concern with increa~ed to Include more Australia's mme-sweeping declining influence in Asia in the period capabilities and a·seagoing hellcop_ter platform leading up to the next Federal election. be added to the fleet. The opportunity Is here for·the RSL to emph~sise 5. That the Res~rve Forces be giv~n greater the seriousness of Australia's political, economic consideration In terms of training and r~souroes and military position and, hopefully, to obtain some so that they become a more effective force. The acknowledgement by the .two major political p~rties future of the Ready Reserve be reviewed as to of this situation and an · undertaking to take the whether it Is likely to become an effective force necess.ary steps to reverse what is a frightening relatlve to the resources being expended on it. scenano. 6. That the RAAF be provided with Early Air lt is time for us to shake the pretend world of Warning and Command system, because until Canberra into a reappraisal of what is happening in these resources are obtained the effectiveness the real world, and with this in mind the RSL of its opera~ional squadrons are greatly demands that the Australian Defence Force be reduced. · required to have the following basic·capabilities: 7. The Australian Cadet Corps be restored to a IT!ilitary 1. That the present training role to encourage our youth to defence policy based on low take.& mc;>re active level contingency be ~crapped inter$st in riJIIita,.Y·matters, because it is a thus countering the insidio!JS effects totally false philosophy on which to establish an of peace Australian and other nonsense studies that have been defence policy, and instead the ABF inflicted on be trained for much our student population over the last wider operation capabilities 10 years. lt would also including the increasing calls for peacekeeping be a positive step to · functions. improving the link between the civilian and military ethos In Australia upon which so much 2. That the regular army be restored to six fully of the Wrigley Report was predicted. manned and equipped battalions with full 8. The ~even options supporting arms. Australia considered in supplyir.g: immediate support to the 3. Gulf War That the RAAF's operation squadrons be reveal h'ow impotent the ADF is in real terms in brought to an appropriate readiness with a 1.5 to providing meaningful forces at short notice. 1 ratio of aircrew to aircraft, and their training (Refer Horner's book "The Gulf Commitment: raised to accepted operational standards. The Australian Defence Forces First War".)

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Allowances and general assistances Single and double orphans are also eligible for pensions if they Attendant Allowances are under 16 years of age. The rates are $53.90 per for1nlghl for single orphans and An allowance for an attendant Is payable to a veteran who as a result of service $107.80 per fortnight for double orphans. has: . Fortnightly rate two ~amputated $176 . ~ been blinded and also afflicted with total loss of speech or total deafness $176.~ two legs and one arm amputated $ 88.20 two legs amputated either at the hip or one althe hip THE ASSETS TEST and the other In the upper third $ 88.20 Ready reckoner tables for calculating the amount of Service Pension be~ blinded $ 88:20 payable under the assets test. The tables are a guide only. Clothing Allowance An allowance at rates ranging from $3 .~ to $7.50 per fortnight may be payable. Homeowners Non-home owners Funeral Benefits Marrted couple Single ve1eran Married couple Single Ve1irlll Assistance of up to $550 towards funeral expenses of certain veterans such as A&Mta Fortniglldy AsMia Fortnlghlty Auelt Fonnighlly AsMII FOOinighlly T&Pis, those whose death was war or defence-caused and those who die In (combined) pension .,.nom (combined) .,.ntion pension lnd'tgent circumstances. (NCh) (taeh) $Hi 210.30 $Hi 312.10 2«1.30 SNil 312.10 Vehicle Assistance Scheme 110000 210.30 112100 312.10 240100 2«1.30 113000 312.10 110100 5.30 113000 310.10 24 1000"" 5 . 30 113100 310.10 A motor vehicle may be Issued to certain seriously disabled veterans and an 182100 2:!55.30 114 000 3011.10 243000 2:!55.30 114100 3011.10 allowance of $780 a year may be paid towards Its upkeep. lt4100. 2$1.30 115000 302.10 2.SOOO 2$1 .30 116100 3012.10 IMIOO 247.30 111000 :!M.IO 247000 20.30 1111100 211.10 111100 243.30 117000 214.10 2<18000 243.30 187100 2114.10 Recreation Transport Allowance 170100 238.30 118000 216.10 251 000 238.30 188100 218.10 172.100 235.30 121000 271.10 263000 235.30 201100 211.10 In certain circumstances' an allowance for recreational purposes tr.IOO 231.30 123000 270.10 2:!55 000 231.30 203100 270.10 may be paid. 111100 227.30 Higher rate 12$000 262.10 257000 227.30 205100 262.10 $46.90 per for1nlght Lower rate $23.50 per for1night 171100 223.30 127000 2$1.10 5 000 223.30 ~ . 10 110100 207100 218.30 241.!0 261000 218.30 21»100 2 ... 10 Temporary Incapacity Allowance ICIOO 215.30 :~= 2311.10 263000 215.30 211100 231.10 lt4100 211.30 133000 230.10 265000 211.30 213100 IMIOO 207.30 135000 230.10 This allowance is payable In certaln circumstances at a rate up to the equivalent 222.10 267000 20731 215100 222.10 ,.lOO 203.30 137100 214.10 268000 of the Special Rate Pension. 180eo0' 203.30 217100 214.10 • 1811.30 1311000 205.10 271000 188.30 218100 112100 116.30 141000 201.10 '"·'0 272000 111531 221100 IM.IO 114100 111.30 143000 ' 180,10 275000 181.30 223100 1111100 11731 I.SOOO 180.10 lla.IO 277000 11731 225100 112.10 181100 11331. 147000 174.10 270000 11331 200100 170.30 227100 174.10 141000 111.10 281000 170.30 221100 111.10 Telephone Allowance 2021100 17!i.30 151000 154.10 mooo 17!i.30 2311100 204100 171.30 1113000 1110.10 158.10 285000 17131 2331100 150.10 This t llowance Is payable In certain cln:umstances. 2051100 167.30 155000 142.10 287000 117.30 2011100 1113.30 157000 235100 142.10 Single veteran $13.20 per quarter l:k.IO 2811000 163.30 237100 I:W.IO 210100 1511.30 158000 12t.IO 214000 1153.30 2141100 15131 238100 12t.IO Married couple $ 6.60 each per quarter Ill 000 111.10 288000 143.30 241100 21t 100 141.30 163000 110.10 111.10 World War I veterans $41 .30 per quarte -000 133.30 243100 110.10 r 22AIOO 131.30 115000 ICI2.10 3011000 123.30 221100 12131 2.SIOO 102.10 167000 14.10 3,1UIOO 11!.30 2(71500 234 1100 11131 158000 14UO N . 10 3 J 8000 100.30 248100 ... 10 2381100 10131 171000 71.10 324000 244500 81.30 83.30 251100 71.10 172000 70.10 3211000 13.30 11.30 175000 2:153100 70.10 6'2.!0 33ol 000 73.30 2:!55100 ~= 71.30 177000 54.10 33iOOO 6'2.10 5 63.30 257100 54.10 1100 61.30 170000 46.10 3-WOOO 153.30 2141100 51.30 Ill 000 ;11.10 5100 4&.10 :woooo 43.30 2tl1100 Education Allowances (fortnightly rates) 2t81100 4 1.30 113000 30.10 3SI 000 38.10 - 2741100 31.30 33.30 2631100 30.10 115000 22.10 35i000 2330 2701100 21.30 117 000 14.10 2161100 22.10 364 000 13.30 267100 Available to children of certllin deceased, blind and T&Pf veterans 11.30 1802$0 0.00 3701110 14.10 0.00 1.00 271 100 0.00 371 000 0.00 Group ·== Primary $1 00 per year Frl~ge Beneflta Bowdfng Service pensioners whose pension is assessed under the assets test or~ will be eligible to receive fringe benefits as long as their assets At home from home lncMpendent remain leas than: Secondary HomeOWners • under 16 years 29.00 129.80 214:3o '). Married couple (combined) $183 ()()() Single veteran, widow or widower SecondaryIT ertiary Non-home~ $128 250 • 16 to 17 years 129.80 '214.30 214.30 Married couple (combined) $263500 • 18 or over 156.10 · 237.00 237.00 Single veteran or widow Page 58-Llatenlng Post-Autumn 1113 $208 750 ~ ----~------~------~------REUNIONS Operation Trek Back 14/32 Aus~an ~aittcy 50th Yur Commemoration We WO.t:Jid like to contact all ex-members of the A committee has been· formed in far north 14/32 '·Australian lnf~ntry battalion resident in . .Oueenstand to organise and commemorate the Western· Australia·. Meetings will be held at Anzac con~e~tra~ion of Military Forces in our· r6gion House on the·second Wednesday of e'ach month at begmm.ng m 1942. The committee is keen to contact 1.00 pm; for further information please contact Mr those who were part of it 50 years ago.- Ron Collins on 361 3370. . Further infor.mation from: KEL RYAN / 9thDivisionReunion50thAnniversaty Planning Committee Alamein . . PO Box 594 Cairns Qld.-4870 The organisation 9f the four-day event was perfect. About 400·ex-service personnel, wives and friends were welcomed at the Mt Gambler RSL British WAAF Reunion where, on registering; guests were given satchels ·containing details of the program piu . ~ a bottle of 24 to 26 September 1993 .1989 sherry labelled with the 9th colour patch Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, Derbyshire, UK insignia and the Australian Army pl~typus over the Well-Dressing, Forties Fancy Dress Party and boomerang. · Remembrance Service·s are some of the three day Highlights of the reunion included a dinner at the functions that are planned> Barn P~Jais, a BBQ at the Mt Gar'nbier race-course For more information. and registration. forms, and, as the finale, a march to the War Memorial for a please contact: . service and wreath-laying. '(Mrs) CYNTHIA LYALL (WAAF) The State Military Band and local Pipe Band · '2/6· Gerald Street· entertained .at all events and the Field Ambulance ComoWA6152 was there -·just in case. · Phone: (09) 450 .6141 J. StATERY - ex-9th Div Cape Leeuwili Survey Vessel 2/7 Aust Inf Bn Association l A reunion is plann~d for August 93 in Brisbane of crew members who ser.~e~ in.the supply-tender and The WA Section of the Association has been I ig hthouse survey· Vessel Cape Leeuwin. granted· a prominent place in the 1993 Anzac Day Commissioned (I believe) in Brisbane in August 43, Parade. All ex-members of·the Battalion, as well as she was of 1440 tons and seryed in and around the. those ·of 2/Sth Battalion, 2 / 6~h Battalion, 17th .Philippines at Luzon and Leyte.as f1MAS Leeuwinor . Brigade, 6th Division, and all eligible veterans are Cape Leeuwin. . · . welcome to join in. The assembly point will be in Pier Street: · Please contact George D Fisher on (09}· 459 7412 or Joan Wallace, 26 Kuranga Ave Southport Our Commanding Officer from 19~1 to 1944, Queensland 4215. Colonel Henry G. Guinn DSO EO, is visiting us ag~in this year. --: Enquiries to 38.7 6732 or 459 4346. AIF No 2 Recovery Section/ VERN SPRIGG . 2/118 Brig~de Works4op West Australian members of the former no: 2 .28th Battalion Recovery Section AIF (Middle East) later 2/118 Our annu~l reunion, held in January at the WACA Brigade Workshop (20 Bde, 9 Div) .are welc,ome to Ground, .was . an overwhelming success with attend a 50th anniversary reunion at the R4311~nic appro~imately _180 s.iUing down to lunch. . Club, Elizabeth St, Sydney on [\nzac Day · 1~3. · Unfortunately, a riumbe·r of faces were missing as Contact John Bishop at 23 Hamiiton Pde, Pyrilble 2073., old fatt1er time takes his toll. Many thanks are T el (02) 498 2216. · extended to the people.at the WACA. The Kalgoor(ietripn the Goldfields, while the old British:Arms Hotel contains a charming reminder of family life with its · "Wedding Breakfast" room. The entrance to the complex is straddled by the six giant legs of the lvanhoe headframe, * Easy to operate making it one of the ·most unusual approaches to aryy public building in the world. What else is there? Well, botanical gardens, extensive *Lightweight grounds with -outdoor displays, We"st Australian sandalwood, Goldfields memorabilia and, most amazing *Portable of all, an underground vault containing a dazzling display of Goldfields jewellery, alluvial gold nuggets, gold bearing minerals from the State~ gold collection refined bullion and collectors' coins. By way of a contrast take aride in the sky in the glass-sided 12 months warranty lift to a viewing platform from which the spectacular panorama of the city and its surroundings may be enjoyed. enquiries Full Price: For contact: The best new is yet to come! ENTRY IS FREE but donations are requested so that the staff can continue to - LIFTRITE 51895 pe trol expand and develop the displays. Pty Ltd For~ 52350 battery The museum is open daily from lO.OOam to 4.30pm. . Phone (049) 82 4402 Centenary souvenir make a point of seeing the gold and ' saldalwood items on sale at reasonable prices in the excellent gift shop. Light refreshments are-available after ll.OOam. RSL Members call on: : ~ CLANWOOD SANTAMARIA. . GAS-SERVICE FRUIT SUPPLY SECWA APPRbVED (Props. Bernie & Wendy Hooper) Service·- Installations- Wide selection of grocery lines Repair to all domestic gas hws, cookers and - extensive delicatessen. room heaters. Fresh fruit and vegetables, meat, etc. Low rates ...... Seniors discounts 103 Burt Street, . (Installation quotes free) BOULDER (090) 93 1247 For advice Phone Ron 447 6664

R.S.L.. Members call <;m: FULL DENTURES MO~WAMOTOR DENTURE REPAIRS AvALU~ SPORTS HOTEL; . U'IWSILOO MOUTHGUARDS for friendly social diinks, meals R.M. GRAEBNER and motel accommodation (l>cnt•l l'roslhedst) VETERANS AFFAIRS 291 6949 ALL HEALTH FUNDS Open: 7 days per week t\I.L tiOURS HOME VISITS IF .PHONE: (099) 7·11060 REQUIRED Solomon Te~, Morawa . . Page 60 - Listening Poat-Autumn 1993 ITEMS FOR THIS SECTION SHOULD BE ' TY~ED SUB-BRANCH·NEWS AND DOUBLE-SPACED WHE;NEVER POSSIBLE.

Belmolit and our members attend their passing-out BEDFORi>-MORtEY parades. Our branch has always been interested in Although the attendance at our Christmas Dinner the youth of the district. The t?oys and girl~ of a few Dance was a little below norrohl, everyone had a years afJO are now adults an~ many of .them were very enjoyable evening. We were delighted to have helped m SQITle way or other by our m·embers. wJth us Mr Jim Hall and his wife, the Mayor of To those office bearers and others who continue Bayswater, Mr John D'Orazi.o and his deputy Or Kim to give so much oftheirtimetoourCiub, wearev.ery Hames with their wives. · grateful- as we are to those members now unable Mr Hall; as acting Australian President, had the to attend meetings ·due to ill health but who did so pleasant duty of presenting to our Secretary and much to make the Club what it is today. · long-tim-e h.a·rd-wprking member, Mr· Ted. CARL F. CAUBO Pennington, ·a well deserved Life Membership Certificate and badge. Congratulations.Ted from us all. . • BELLEVUE During last year, ·our meetings on the second BLACKBOY HILL VC WINNERS HONOURED Tuesday of each. month attracted an ·average Victorta Cross winners who trai·ned at Sl~ckboy attendance of 45 members. As the Women's Hill quring World War I were recently honoured at Auxiliary meet .on the same night, we get together the unveiling of·their nai'J!e$ on the Victoria Cross afterwards for refreshments and fellowship. Concourse at the Blackboy Hill Commemorative Our monthly bus. trips are still very popular, Site. thanks to the ~fforts of Dennis Wall, Max Sullivan From a research project initiated by Mike Hall, it and social committee members. ' was found that ·there were ten winners from this ERN POLGLAZE training camp who received the highest award for President valour. With the financial support of this sub• branch, and ·in consultation with the Shire of Mundaring and site wardens, provision was made BELMONT for suitable recognition of award recrpients. M{letings are held on the third Monday of every Last November, a short ceremony was held at the month at 8.00 pm. The Women's Auxiliary meets at Commemorative Site to dedicate the Concourse. At the same time and ladies who wish to join, or rejoin, the unveiling, members of neighbouring sub• would be made very welcome. branches .:ead the ·citations while cadets from the Our bowling green is now in top condition and we 503 Aegionl;ll Cadet Unit performed the actual play each Wednesday. · unveiling of the plaques. During the ceremony, Ean Last year's Anzac Service, held in conjunction McDonald ·of Highgate Sub-Branch spoke of the with Rivervale, was well attended as were a variety of origins of the Victoria Cross and related anecdotes other functions organised by this sub-branch. We of circumstances surrounding many of the awards. are associated with Flights 12 and 15 of the Air ' The ceremony attracted vi~ltors from all over.the Training Corps who have their headquarters in State. ·From RSL members to relatives.of winners, people were on, hand to share in the simple but sincere·cete!llony ~uring which the relatives of J.P. Woods display~d the. actual Victoria Cross that was presented ·to him following action in 1918 on· the t:?attlefields in Fr~nce. · BILL GAYNOR

. RSL Club at s.lmont. Donations to date include $100 fror;n Lancelin Sub-Brailch News sub-branch and Mr and Mrs Bill Shields, $50 frpm Fremantle sub-branch and $20 from Mr P. Rogers. The flag with bullet holes attributed to the Turks, was brought back to Australia by the late Dave BLACKBOY HIL.L AND BEL.LEVUE Patten of Nabawa, regimental number 1028 of 32 ANZAC SERVICES- 1993 Battalion. lt had been given to the Chapmari Valley Blackboy Hill: . . Historical Society after being used by the RSL for Thursday 8 April: 1.30pm Schoel Childrens' Service Anzac Day services at Nabawa cemetery. · Saturday 24 April: 5.30pm Sunset Service PETER BAEDEN Sunday 25 April:'6.15am Dawn Service PRO Sellevue Sunday 25 April: 11.45am Anzac Day March 12.00 noon Anzac Service HARVEY Last year the branch was able to once agakl GERALDTON donate funds to worthy causes: $150.00 to Legacy and $50.00 to the "Centaur" memorial fund. Again, Hoatel Improvement• . we presented a trophy to the Yarloop Rifle Club to Further improvements to the regional War the value of $50.00 and donated $50.00 to the Banka Veterans' Home will cost abo'ut $135,000 of which Island Memorial. A religious shrine built during $84,000 will be provided by the Department of World War 11 at the old Harvey Golf Club by Italian Health, Housing and Community Services and the POWs was renovated and restored by ex-POWs and remainder by the War Veteran$' Home Board and the Italian community of Harvey. the Veterans' Affairs Department. Poppy Day was a great success and I express At our January meeting we were advis~d of a sincere thanks to all members who gave their time to grant of $19;850, approved under the Aged Care and h~lp raise $912.00 which was forwarded to the Support Program. This will provide for a two-day Forces Relief Fund. workshop for staff i nv.olved with the care of the aged Shortly I will be moving to Mandurah. I have in hostels in the mid-west and Gascoyne Health enjoying being President and thank you all for the Regions. · confidence you have shown in me. The workshop wiU be held at Geraldton on dates Les Baker, a long time member, passed away in to be publicised. September after a long illness. He wnl be missed by Proficiency Preaentatlon us all. S"ergeant Annette Yaksich, a member of the 506 J. KENNY Regional Army Unit at Geraldton, has won the Proficiency Trophy awarded by our sub-branch. lt was presented at the Unit's passing-out parade by KALGOORLIE. . President Allan Ellis who congratulated Sergeant A Yaksich as the first recipient of the very successful 1992 Remembrance D.ay award and the Service was held at Unit for its very creditable parade performance. the Kalgoorlie War Memorial, attended by some 250 people. The Kalgoorlie/ Memorial Gardens J3oulder Aero Club conducted a well-timed "fly• Preliminary work has begun on land next to over" and Mrs Cheryl Beer played.the bugle calls -a Birdwood House to establish the Veterans' duty sh.e has performed for many years. Memorial Gardens. A request for a 25-year-lease has been made to the City council in conjunction with the Birdwood House lease from the Sailors and Soldiers' Memorial Trust. Mayor Ted Whelan has advised th'at an independent consultant's study is nearing completion; this was commissioned by the Council to review, among other things, the re-alignment of the Chapman Road/Phelps Street intersection and the long-term transportation and planning objectives. The bring-and-share Christmas meeting was attended bY. members of the Women's Auxiliary whose President, Gillian Sharp, presented us with an urn. . Gallipoli Flag Sub-branches are reminded of the State Congress decision that the flag held by Ulis sub• branch be stabilised, conserved and framed at an estimated cost of $1,500 and that sub-branches. be asked to t1elp financially. · Page 82-Listening Post-Autumn 1113 . Mr Doug Whitehorn is nqw President. Sub-Branch.News Other presentations Included Certificates of Service to Mesdames Marg O'Neil and Lesley McDougall, who have been active for more than 20 years, ancf Life · Memberships to Mrs DOrothy Higgins, a member since 1962, and Mrs Bernice Willott, who joined in 1956. SECRETARY 34 Defier Street Narrogin 6312"' NEDLANDS A dedication service of remembrance plaques of. the Korea and Vietnam Campaigns was held at the Nedlands War Memorial last November. Previously the-Memorial was for the two World Wars but through the efforts of the sub-branch, the additions fqr Korea and Vietnam were i m ~ luded . Our patron. Sir Charles Court, AK, KCMG, OBE, gave a stirring ac;idress, congratulating the sub• branch on its good work in keeping the i~eals of the League fo·remost in the Nedlands community. ·

Remembrance Day 1992. Mrs Chery/ Beer playing the bugle calls. . Wreaths were laid by the RSL, ex-Servicemen's Club, Scouts, Guides, 9 Flight ATC, E.G. Senior High School, City Council, Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Mines and outgoing and incoming Wardens. There were also a number of private {family) wreaths. · Dedication ceremony of Remembrance Plaques Korea and · lt was pleasing to note that schools are taking a Vietnam Campajghs. greater interest in these services. Year 5 from · Kalgoorlie Central School attended and, after the Tpe Dedication S~rvice was conducted by our service, the children asked many questions and Cliaplain Fr John Ryan, STL and wreaths were laid were particularly interested in the poppy and what it by civic dignitaries and kindr·ed associates. means: with assistance from the Goldfields After the.ce remony, guests and members enjoyed Education Centre, photocopies of the origin of the refreshments at the Hollywood Bowling·CJub where poppy etc. were sent to each school. we meet every second Sunday of the month at 1Oam. Wjth the. co-operation of our police, traffic at the All ex-ser.itce personnel are welcome to jojn us. main interse ction - Hannan/Maritana Streets - J. SLATTERY P.R.Q. was halted during the bugle calls and the two• minute's' silence. The bugle calls were played from the old balcony with the Mayor, RSL OSBORNE PARK Senior Vice President, a member and students from Regrettat:ily we have h~d to say Vat~ to qu'ite a few E.G. Senior High School in attendance. of·our members: Charlie Wilson, Tom O'Brien, John Our Christmas dinner at the Tower Hotel was McNamara, ·Harold {Bonnie) Shackleton, Trevor enjoyed by 34 members and wives. Carter and Tom Birnie. • · · · Our long-s&rying Secretary/ Treasurer; Fred PRESIDENT Guelfi, has.had th,e distinction ·of receiving a Life Me.mbership; his C~r:tifioate and Life· Member's badge were presented at the December meeting NARROGIN which our ladies att~nded . Fred was a worthy A good crowd of RSL and Ladies' Auxiliary recipient of this ~t ward , having taken an·active role in members attended our annual reunion when Mr the sub-branch since he first joined the RSL. Hewas Brian Dowsett was presented with a 'Life Auditor for .the first couple of years and then Membership and Certificate of Service. Our SecFe~ary/ Treasurer. for -the past 15: Well done, President for three years, Brian steered the branch Fred. This i~ certainly a great achievement and all through a rather difficult time. members heartily congratulate you. :. u.tenlnt Po.t-Autumn 1111-Pegela TRAVEL INN 191 ALBANY HIGHWAY, ALBANY 6330 TEL: (098) 41 4144 FAX: (098) 6215 HOSTS: Len & Maisie Smith Better known as the motel with the spouting whale out the front. The Travel inn has been an Albany landmark for _years. Only a few minutes drive from town the motel has been constantly uJ)tdated and now features a delightfully refurbished restaurant and lobby. * Rooms with private facilities * Air conditioning and heating *Colour TV, radio and music* Electric Blankets all beds *Direct dial telephone * Tea and coffee making * Parking at unit door * Deluxe rooms also available * Licensed Restaurant

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DISCOUNT FOR AGED PENSIONERS • Full Health Benefit Covers Apply JIM MITS/KAS A!ter Hours Optic Service- Evenings & Weekends Ph: 29S 4010 RECOGNISED BY HEALTH FUNDS AND VETERANS AFFAIRS PegeM-Listening Poa-Autumn 1113 Sub-Branch News RETURNED SISTE{{S . · VALE: R~by ln~z ~ -!~ottc: · ~~ : (H"n) ~ nee 'w i.mer ' . . formel'ly SmliHWX1541 There is still no further action regarding selling Before joining the AANS . part of 9ur p_ropei'ty so we can commence the ln Ja.mJary 1940, Ruby Warner (who trained .•. at ·~· the P,erth Children's redevelopment project. With the very depressed m~dical statt;t of commerical property land sales, I am Hospital) had wide experience in and be~ surgical nursing. She was ainoi'_!Q ·.the first grC?UP of inning to bejteve that nothing will ever be done. WA nurses to be postea for overseas service In Th_1s has gone on for too .long a time an.d, at this .. World War 11. juncture, I regret there is no encouraging news. Wednesd~y The group left Fremantle- in ,April 1940 on the Meetings are held on the second of ~ith t:n~mbers each month commencing at 7.30pm; so mark off transport ship Nevassa of the 2/1 t your calendars and come along and support your Battalion bound for the f.Jiiddle East where they sub-branch. Even if you can Ol')ly make it to Or]e or joined the 2/2nd Australian. General Hospital. The unit set up a 1,200-bed hosp1tal-at E~ Kantara on.the two meetings during the year, you wi~l be made most welcome. Suez Canal · and received casualties from the -Western Desert, Greece and Crete. BILL SULLIVAN th~ 349 2797 When Japan entc;lr.ed the war. unitwas recalled to Australia and many of its senior-personnel wdere sent to other units.· Sister Warner was-reposte to- RETURNED EX-SERVICEWOMEN 30th Australia Camp Hospital at Claremonl and subsequently became matron anq principa~ .matron At our Christmas party at Anzac House, Mrs Joan of Western·Command. Dowson was presented with a cheque for $1,000 When the _Repatriation Department took over the towar.ds the War Veterans'·· Home (Mandurah) military establishment, Miss Warn~r tool< ~er Building Fund. discharge from the Army and was appomted the f1rst Mrs Dowson then presented Life Membership to m·atron in a civil capacity. She relinquished the Mrs Heather McManis who has been an active position on her marriage to Bertram Smith and member since joining the sub-branch in 1948. She is retired from nursing. the Ol')ly member to have held all the positions.of After the death ·of her husband, she married President, Secretary and Treasurer. We noted w1th Manfred Bennecke who also predeceased her. interest that Heather's Life Membership was signed Helen (as she was known to her friends) ·lived for by June Healy OAM, ·the... first lady to hold the some time in the Hollywood Retirement Village. She position of National Secretary of the RSL. died, after a comparatively short illness, on 28 Our meetings are held in Anzac House at 1 pm on November .1992 at the Hollywood Repatriation the third Thursday of each month, anCl the Sub• General Hospital. Branch is open to all ex-servicewomen. If you are already a me.mber of the RSL, you can be an v·ALE: Enld Marlon Ferguson, nee Dovey WFX3476 Associate member for $5.00 per annum and enj'oy Enid · Dovey, who trained for her general our many activities, outings an~ interesting certificate in government hospitals, was completing newsletter "Light Diet". We also have ~ welfare her child health and midwifery training when called group whose members are very caring of those ~ho u'p for active service with the AANS in 1940. She was are not in good health. Con~acts: Mrs Joa~ Do~son posted for overseas service with the 2/9th AGH; and 384 6712 (Membership Off1cer), Mrs Cec1le Hmton the unit. left Fremantle on the transport 387 2237 (President). "Mauretania"in February 1941 bound for the Mi.ddle --: East. After staging briefly ~t the 2/2nd AGH at El Kantara, the group jqiried the hospital at ABO Elkader ·in the Amiriya ·district. Alterations in the Gre.e.k campaign phanged . plans for furtt'ier movement and eventua:lly.fhe 2/9th set up a hospital in Nazareth, Northern Palestine. . After returning to Australia in 1~ . 4.2, tl;l'e unit was b&sed ·at Northfield, SA, before going to New Guin~a . Some of the senior staff reposted, among_ them Sister ·Dovey who joined the 110th AGH Hollywood.where she· remained until her dischar . g~ from the Ar.my in 1947 when the hospital was taken . over by the Rep~tri~tion Department. .' · After a traffic acciqent, she retired and c~red for ') h~r elderly father. She . later .married and lived at Mount Pleasant. · M~s Ferguson ·died peacefully in· th~ . Catherine · n____ .._tio LHe Membership to Mrs Hea~r MtManis r,_nu. n o 1 M Manis Mrs c Hlnton McAuley Hostel at .Wembley on 18 January 1a93. 1-r: Mrs J. Dowson, Mrs c ' Photo~ Teresa' Korbosky. VICTORIA HOBBS ·. Llatenlng P~- "Autumn 1113-P-..11 At the December meeting the following office• Sub-Branch News bearers were elected: President Doug Piggott; Secretary Ken Badge; T~easurer John ~ax~~ll; · Senior Vice Presiden·t Norm Elms; Jumor V1ce President Wally Evans; Trustees Alf Bro~n an.c.t Jirn Hugill; Memorial Garden Warden Doug P1ggott and SCARBOROUGH Auditor Ernie Norman. · At our anniversary dinner, Mrs Barl;>ara Clinton The Committee is probably organising bus trips presented certificates to Bob White, our Past this year; for details phone Ken Badge on 446 2710. President, Ron Elms, Past S~cretary, and Joy Reed .. Sadly, we said Vale to a ve:ry valued member, Jack for excellent welfare work. And a Life Membership Bailey; he will be greatly m1ssed. certificate was presented to Doug Piggott in JIM HUGILL. reco.gnition of his work for the sub-branch and the RSL generally. . KATANNING The Memorial Garden is almost complete with a name-plate over the entrance, giving the garden a Students at ·the Katanning Senior High School. finished.look, and a dqnation has been made to the toQ.k. part in ou·r Awareness ?Ompetition on .the Banka Island Memorial. subject of Armistice. Tl:le . w1~ners were Knsty Dudley Docking has thanked members for their Noakes (1st) and Jacqueline McDonnell (2nd). support pf RSL ~Owls, and Don Reyn~lds and Bob We hope that our next competition will attract a Taylor have suggested an alterat1on to the larger number of entries. sponsorship of the competition. PAT DWYER

post-war citizens, a celebrity and one of his country's BOOK most popularly elected politicians. He was also a founder-member of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) which has been that nation's REVIEWS government ever since. Of particular interest is the fact that notable Australians were instrumental in aiding and abetting the mass killer's gigantic hoax (see THE KILLER THEY Chapter 21 ). They portrayed him internationally as CALLED A GOD the great Japanese soldier and military scholar of By lan Ward, $16.95 his time. So successful were these Australians, as it happened, that Tsuji ultimately emerged the world's Mr Ward, a veteran war correspondent, with over most respected authority on Japanese 30 years experien.ce living in Singapore and writing action. about South East Asia, reveals for the first time what "The Killer They Called a God", clearly, has major must rank as the most outrageous story to emerge · implications for history. lt opens up an entirely new from the Pacific War and its aftermath. and fascinating area of research that has escaped all Released throughout South East Asia just b.efore previous scrutiny. Furthermore, it poses a whole Christmas, "The Killer They Called a God" has range of vital questions that must now be addressed become a region's most controversial title, topping by US, Britisl:l. Australian and Japanese authorities best-seller lists in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong alike. Kong and prompting extensive press coverage in all Copies from P.O. Box 665, Lane Cove, NSW 2066. leading regional newsp~pers . The book gives the staggering but true account of Masanobu Tsuji, Japan's most ~ . izarre and brutal TRAPPED ON TIMOR war criminal. Tsuji was responsible for the massacre by coun· Hul'flphrls of some 15,000 Chinese civilians in Singapore and Published '1991 .; P'rlce $14.95 Malaya. He was also the key figure pehi.nd the worst This book reveals a ·little known, 50-day ordeal atrocity ever committed against US servicemen - endured by 37 R.~AF personnel and four Army men -• The Bataan Death March in the Philippines: of the 2/40th Battalion. Written by one of the Knowing the extent of Tsuji's appalling su.rv.ivors, 'Trapped on Timor' tells of their privations background, American military intelligenc~ in post• and sufferings on the island between February and war Japan went ahead and protected him from 'Apri1 .1942. · · arrest. They also persuaded the British to go along . T-heir eventual' rescue by the US Navy submarine with a classic but disgraceful "deal with the devil" Sea raven is itself an epic when it is realised this was arrangement. When the British finally realised the tl")e time of the massive Japanese southern push at enormity of their error, it was too late. Tsuji was able the height of its su·cces.s. to conclude, unhindered, the most outlandish ') The RAAF group had been Jeft at the Penfoei escape bid. ever undertaken bv any Wo'rld War' 11 airst~iP ~ust wanted criminal. •. east ?f Koepang, to destroy petrol, a'!lmurut1on supphes and the strip after urgent Still, this is only part of the in.credible tale.' :rsuji Withdrawal of the Hudson aircraft before the arrival went on to become one of Japan'S most promment of Japan~se forces on Timor. · Page H-Listening Post-Autumn 1113 In those latter times, there were many hours of Book Reviews cont. strict and.serious attention to duty during tbe ever• present possibility of encounterinq a lurking Japanese submarine and the increasing threat of kamikaze attacks from the air, But with a crew that, Their planned evacuation by flying boat was apart from the Captain and a few senior officers, was cancellecf after that a.ircraft was destroyed by the made up of young and inexperienced volunteers, Japanese at Broome. there were many moments of light-heartednes8, and The next few weeks spent trekking north for 50 it is these, recounted in a simple, unaffected style, miles through tropical forests would not have been that give the book its appeal. possible without the assistance of Timorese The book is light and easy reading and should be vill.agers who not only helped with the food and of particular interest to ex-RAN members. Among its gUides b4t supplied information about the Japanese 96 pages there are numerous photographs and a pur~uers - . The group was fortunate to have skilled map showing HMAS .Ararat's area of operations radrome.n who·kept in touch with Darwin; this was a between 1943 and 1945. · story in rtself, which eventually led to Lieut-General Copies of The Rat are available for $14, including Brett of the US Army in Australia arranging for the postage, from Gordon Broom, 11 B Lalor Street, subma_r!ne .searaven (diverted because of the fall of Scarborough 6019. For each copy sold, Mr Broom the Phrllppmes) to proceed to Timor. will donate $1 to the RSL War Veterans' Home Luck is a fortune when you have courage and Building Fund. resourcefulness to back it up. lt is a great pity that ERIC HINCHLIFFE malaria and other diseases forced them to bury fou'r of their mates before rescue. ANZAC DAY This book should be of great interst to all ex• servicemen, particularly those who themselves can I saw a kid a marchin' with medals on his chest. appreciate the terrible tropical conditions that had He marched alongside Diggers marching six to be combated without the usual food and medical abreast supplies. He knew that it was Anzac Day - he walked along OR ALAN KING with pride. . He did his best to keep in step with the Diggers by his side. _ And when the march was over the kid was rather THE RAT- HMAS ARARAT tired, 1943-1945 A Digger said "Whose medals son?" to which the kid l replied: by Gordon Broom "They belong to Daddy but he did not come back . . Gordon Broom's entertaining account of life as a He.died up in New Guinea on a lonely jungle track" . telegraphist aboard one of Australia's corvette• The kid looked rather sad just then and a tear came class anti-submarine patrol and escort ships during to. his eye. · World War 11 adds a small but nonetheless The Digger said " Don't cry my son and I will tell you significant detail to the growj ng canvas depicting why. . the part played by Australia in the war. Your Daddy marched with us today - all the At the age of 1i, Gordon succeedecj in joining the blooming way. . . Australian Military Forces by the simple expedient We Diggers know that he was there- it's like that on of putting his age up by·a year. Eight months later, Anzac Day." he successfully applied to transfer to the Navy and, The kid looked rather puzzled and didn't after a period of training, was posled to HMAS understand. Ararat. But the Digger went on talkin' and started to wave his hands . . This is not a story about campaigns and battles, or "For.this great land we live in, there's a price we have about men who had vital tactical decisions to make to pay. · or who performed acts of heroism or. suffered the And for this thing called Freedom, the Diggers had horrors of a prison camp; it is simply .an a9count of to pay. · ,... what life was like for a ship's·complemept of 90 men, For we all love fun and merriment in this country sometimes ashore, but mostly at sea on boa.rd "The where we live. · Rat" as the Ararat was affectionately called. lt is The pr!ce Wf!S . that some Soldier his ·precious life • also' the story of the youngest member of. that must grve. . complement and how two years of active duty.on the corvette gave him the For you to go to school my Lad and worship God at self-confidence··and self• will. · . discipline to enable him to ~ecome a successful Someone had to pay the price·so the Diggers paid teacher in later life. the bill: kl Commissioned in April1943, the . Araratb~gan her There's some folks around today my Lad who think · service with an\i-submarine and escort duties off it's, all for free, · Australia's eastern sea-board; later, with the Even though there's other countries close at hand Japanese in retreat, she carried out similar duties in on bended knee. . · the waters to ttie east and north of Papua-New They walk around with banners like kids ·with little Guinea and, eventually, in the Philippines. toys, ~ . loribaiwa Ridge became famous as the place In 13ook Reviews cont. New Guinea which ended the .Japanese dream of taking over Australia. How the men of Nippon were. blasted off the ridge by 25-pounder guns, brought up the boggy mountain stairs in pieces by artillery While the enemy just waits around clapping his soldiers often helped by th~ ind i ge!lou~ people, i~ hands-with joy. impressing and pregnant WJth emot1on. They say it's not cor'red these days to stand up to Both Tom ttie foe, • · and Nace Hogan were wounded in the But drive and many of their mates paid t~e supreme the old time religions knew where they had to sacrifice. go. .. These men had barely left the1r teens, yet their deeds and those of their comrades They took up the Bible with them and the Padres led allow· us the way, today to cherish our Australia: That's the reason now my son -the Church is here The story continues post-war to 1992: Brothe~ Bill to stay. · man powered to continue farm production provides The Romans thought they couldn't fall but Oh how a balance of home-front views of· the period. great they fall A book ·for historians, seekers of the truth and lt can happen to all peoples Lad! However great or anyone interested in a slice of Australia's history. small. · · Copies may be pu·rctiased by mail order to Hogan Your Daddy died for us my Son - for all things good Brothers, 24 Neville Street, Goulburn, NSW 2580 and true, Price $20.00 includes postage. I wonder if you can understand the things I've said to you." T.K: LLOYD The kid looked up at the Digger - just for a little while, LOOKWHATYOU STARTED And with a changed expression, said, with a lovely smile: . HENRY! " I know my Dad marched here today - this, our Anzac Day, by Leon Stubblngs I know he did -I know he did, all the blooming way Leon Stubbings, son of a blinded Gallipoli " Veteran and Past Secretary General of the Australian This poem was written by D. Hunter, VX105119, of Red Cross from 1955 to 1988, has-given in 2/12 Btn, a Shaggy Ridge veteran, and was passed an easy to read book a panoramic sweep of the story on to 'Army' by Capt W. Frost, SORE 3 of of Red Cross. Accommodation and Works at AHQ, Canberra. The book's title 'Look what you started Henry!' Courtesy: ARMY Magazine honours the founder of Red Cross, Henry Dunant. The · first chapter outlines Dunant's actions and observations of the bloody Battle of Solferino FROM GRABBEN GULLEN · where, in 1859, more than 38,000 soldiers fell, where the wounded were left abandoned and many TOKOKODA suffered a slow, painful and lonely death. Spurred into action by By Tom, Nace & Bill H~gan \ the scene he witnessed, the Red Cross was born. An international movement A rare opportunity to g_ain an ap'precia.tion of a dedicated to the-relief of suffering, period 150 national of Australian hfe from a tnlogy .of societies around the worl!dnow carry out the work of autobiographies. This unusual story u!lfolds -With Red Cross. immigrants arriving from County Clare m 1859 and .Leon Stubbings proceeds through count starts with the big picture of wars, ry farming at Grat?ben then lightens the story Gullen in New South Wales to a graphic with details and continues to first-hand explore. a diverse picture of account o f two b r others' Army service Red Cross activity in encompassing Australia, Asia, the J ~acific , Africa and on the world jungle warfar e on the Kokoda Trail. scene. The third brother Bill relates his man-powered experiences of the times. He,describes the-activities of the Australian Red Tom and Cross from 191_9, its beginnings in Australia as a Nace Hog an served with th.e3rd Infantry branch Battalion. The atrocious of the British Red Cross and how, Within conditions experienced .by weeks of the formation Australian soldiers in pushing the of the Australian branch, Japanese off the men, women and childre~:) Owen Stanley Range were never m~de ~ore were involved in a variety real of ways and Red than in a particular episode authored by Pnvate P. Cross members worked at the l. ·hospitals and convalescent homes (Nace) Hogan some 50 years ago and published rn alongside full in the "Crookwell Gazette doctors an'd nurses as members of the Voluntary Aid ". Crookwe.ll is a town Detachments high on the Great Dividing Range of N~W . Fundraising was undertaken by and close young and old, everyone to the farming community of Grabben·Gullen. raising mon·ey for the cause. Dame Nellie Melba, in The chapter Australia at the recounts the daily skirmishes. oP outbreak of the war, san~ for Red Cross and by the attack sniping, grenade throwing and.the merciful time s~ch peace came· had raised more than $90,000 for cover of darkness. Names of areas of fighting the sick, wounded and prisoners as Ofi River, loribaiwa, of war. The total Efogi, Templeton's Crossmg amount of money r.eceived by Red Cross and others trace the running in of the battle. Aus~ralia fropm 1914-1918 was $2,470,875 of which P-t• 88-L_ltlenlng POll- Autumn 1113 > possibly comprehend. · For this reason .these volumes, and all similar histories, _have a vital·place Book Reviews cont. in the written ·heritage of Jhis p.ountry, and on~ would hope that somewhere in the vast grey sponge called Canberra, a comple~e record is being kept of the greater portion benefited Australian sick and them. wounded on all fronts. T.he rest was donated to The extensive use of diaries and letters BRCS and Allied Red Cross Societies. throughout both ·volumes and the method of - The author gives d.etails about the regttlatlon running them in parallel with the official narrative amount of food which could be sent to POWs: 1OOib gives both a "clinical" and personal/emotional for four weeks for officers, 801b for civitians and 601b description of the 'sal1:le· events. The diagrams, for prtvates and NCOs. photograph's and maps are more than adequate for in his foreword, Mr E.G. Whitlam notes that Red the serious reader of matters military but are Cross was the pioneer in severai health and welfare presented in a manner tj'lat can also be easily_ fields when governments would·- not allow followed by others not as knowledgeable. the!'lselve~ that courageous privilege. Once such To summarise,_"Hold Hard Cobbers" is a good activities -were acknowledged as an essential read, albeit a fairly long· one, and deserv_es all the government responsibility, Red Cross pa~sed them· recognition itgets. on to the authorities - convalescent homes and Copies from: 57/60th Battalion (AIF) Association, home{J for th~ han4icapped are two examples. · FS/20 Howson Ave, Glenhuntly Vie 31'63. Stubbings· leaves you wanting ·more: perhaps that · MAJOR J.L. HOLMAN was his intentiofl-to·send you scurrying In pursuit of further information from your loc.al branch, the Blood Transfusion Service or your grandchildren's youth group. Priced at $19.95, the book is available from - Australian Red Cross Society, Natjon_al Headquarters, 206 Ctarendon Street, East Melbourne, Victoria 3002. Cheques should be made payable to 'History of the Australian Red Cross So~iety'. · · BARBARA CLINTON HOLD HARD, COBBERS l 1 AND 2 VOLUMES by Robin S. C~rfleld . 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The author's connection with the 57 /60th Battalion is by way of h i·s father wtlo was an o!ficer in the unit in the mid 1930s. Hebe'ganthe~o,rk m 19~7 . . The title was taken from a poem. ~ntten · bY.. $gt Raymond Mullavey in tribute to h-IS ma~es . The DISCOUNT POO~ & SNOOKEl poem is called "Anzac Interlude". _ 1 Qaql to 1 pm $' p/hour. p/table " These are the cold faqts on the volume.s. But tt)ey 1 pm-tll_l close $5 p/hour p/table are far more than a history of two relatively small_ TOP TABLES- CHEAP PRICES I ~nd '-' units that were brought into existence to fight No'w/efld surcharges-. 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NOVEMBER WX30S69, Camp, W.G., Albany, 'E' Bty .AAA . 78482, Ang).JS; D_:, City'of Perth, PAPUAN Infantry Btn WX41677, Carter, M.T., Osborne Park, 5 MDSD WX10675, Bailie, J.B., Scarborough, 2/25 Aust lnf Btn 8.0629; Chambers, M.J., Highgate, ~AAF 23830, Baldrey, V.T., City of Perth, NAVY 81116, Charlesworth, C.H., City of Per:th, 54-GRP. Fly 14473122, Barber,. D.P., 'Bayswater-Meltham, REM.E Train Comm . · · · · · . . · · :· ·· · · · WX5012, Butler, L.M., Bicton-Palmyra, 2/28 Aust'lnf WX20078, Coltart,-J.H., Darkan; 6 A:rB; : ... · Btn WX25163, Cooper, C.K.; Geraldton, Genera:l Transport WC38589, Cargill, D.R., Central, 7 Wireless WX27376, Evans, W.C., Mandurah, 28 Aust lnf Btn NX23602, Carletol), V.A.; Central, Hay PWG 406901, Hi.ckmott, C.A., . Bulibu~. RAAF WX13227, Carroll, W.K., Bunbury, 2/16 Aust lnf Btn SX18~0. Hollamby, L.~ .• Bun~ury, 2/10 Aust lnf Btn 81711, Cleary, H.V., City of Rockingham, RAAF 82810, Hyde, H.S., Bassendean-Guildford, RAAF WF16413, Corr, V.G., Nedlands, AAMWS 296497, 1:-ee, E.T., Blcton-Palmyra, RAAF WX20530, Couper, t-l.J., Central, 105 Aust Fld Amb WX25927! Le~der, C.L., City of ~erth, 2/4~ Btn ·• 13064494, Dixon, L.A., City of Perth, RADC WX29722, Mason, D.R.M., Centr~I ,. R-AAF 2877633, Eadie, J.D., Claremont, 1 Btn WX30262, Miller, R.J., Northam, 37 AASC 415943. Gardner, E.R., Karridale..:Augusta, RAAF 46894, Mills, A·.G., Mosman Park, RAAF WX4450, Garrett, T.J., Riverton, 2/28 Aust lnf Btn 54185, Nixon, J.W., Murray, School of Military 16692, Gibbs, F.G., Scraborough, RAAF Engineering ' · 8465, Hancock, L., Mandurah, RAAF F2737, Ogston, A.C., City of Rocki.ngham WX25032, Hill, J.A., Moora, 2/ 28 Aust lnf Btn C/JX125805, Rowe, A., Central, Royal ·Navy 4348, lllingworth, K.A., Yokine-Joondanna, 32nd Btn 7228, Schuler, F.A., Nedlands, EMSUF ' G/FRX5247, Joseph, L.S., Gascoyne, Fleet Air Arm VX87941, Sinclajr, G.G. , Cjty qf Perth, 2/2 Aust Railway A21792, Kuhn, C.J., Canning Dist-Vic Park, 77 Sqn ConstrCoy . · 108A, McGiinn, J., Claremont, 2 MG WX30750, Thornell, C.A.; Bicton-Palmyra, 9 APW 5700371, McNamara, J.F., Osborne Park, ARMY WF90378, Trotter, L.P., Bed.ford-Morley, 17LOR 5/ 1789, Milton, P.J .K., Coolgardie, AAA 3 Btn F3021 , WaJsh, J.P., Fremantle WX32149, O'Sullivan, M., Wembley-Fioreat, 5§ A/Trp PI 17663·, Wtrite, D.J., E.Vic Park & Vietnam Veterans, 101 406535, Ovens, H.R., York, RAAF Fld Rgt **K-1 12345, Paul! M.W., Katanning, Merchant Marine WX26061 , Wood, K'.A., Mandurah, 2/12 VX6746, Pearlman, C.S., Mt Lawley-lnglewood, 9 Div s· - . JANUARY 9~%~9. Penton, D.A., Yilgarn & Districts, Medical HQ WX40937, Anderson, N.G., Bicton-Palmyra, 28 Btn 517562, Piggott, R.l., Bunbury, 11th lndep ~ifl~ Coy WX~0016, Bartlett, V.A., Manning, 16 AIB . R313497, Potter, W.H., Bicton-Palmyra, Merchant Navy 406093, Brinkley, J.L., · R~vert9n, RAAF R256597, Prockter, W.E., Kwinana, Merchant Navy 54530, Brow11, E.L., Bellevue, RAN WX1695, Ruwolt, R.G., Bedford-Morley, 2/3 Fd Regt 427636, Chant, P.G., Belmont, RAAF WX11994, Sadler, A.M., Canning Dist-Vic Park, 2/28 SX1124.0, Collins, J.A.,.Cottesloe, 6 Div Cav .._. Aust lnf Btn 415101-, · D~passey, W.F.; Cizy of Perth, RAAF WX30820, Shackleton, H.E., Osborne Park, 7 AA Tpt . WX28864, Elkins, H.J., Mandurah, Aust Prov 82084, Sharp, A.R., Mt Lawley-lnglewood, RAAF WFX3476, Ferguson, E.M., Returned Sisters, AGH 585 Snook, G.M., Dongara, RAAF . · WX40099, Ganfield, C.E., Bunbury, Garrison Btn 34213, Stone, S.M., E. Vie Park & Vietnam Veterans, WX414, Garratt, G., Artnadale,'2/11 Aust lnf'Btn Merchant Navy WX10177, · ~ray, G., M.orawa-Gutha, 4 M:T. 297498, Sweet, H.L., Belmont, RAAF . WX500821, Herding, A.J., Bayswater-Meltham, 65 ...... 5933203, Taylor, J.F., Riverton, ~21 · Fid Sda Aust lhf Btn · . WX37297, Thomson, W.J. , Darling Range, 2/ 48 Aust F39.91, Jos.eph, V.E., Si.Jbiaco, RAN lnf Btn . VX.11.0409, King,· A.F., Lanoelirr/ Coastal Dist, 4923319 Tree, A.E., Cottesloe, Duke of Cornwalls lnf Armour~d Corps . . W33030.'Waddell, J.M., E.Vie Park & Vietnam Veterans, V68356, .Kiow.ss, AS., Geraldton, 39 Btn 21st Reserve Motor Trans 436269, Millett, G. H.; Bicton-Palmyra, _RAAF WX29712, Wiley, C.D., Cunderdin, 11 Btn 4028653. Neech; W.T., City pf.Perth, 4FTS 5716628, Wood, L.N., York, 4 Fld Regt WX10286, Newton, AL., Boulder,·2/32 Aust lnf Btn WX31153, O'Hehir, L.R.~ . Rjverv.ale-Carlisle, 11 Btn rr DECEMBER 45;386, Scrivener, J.K_., Kojonup, RAAF ·· WX13745, Ballantyne, A, Boyup Brook, Aust Army W5<35237, Sermon, LA., Northam,·10 Aust Gar. 46580, Spowart, R.A., Bunbury,.RAAi= Service Corps • . WFX1541, Bennecke, M., Returned S1sters, 110 P.Mt:l WX37615, Stanley, A., City of Ro

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ESTABLISHMENT OF A CONTINENCE INFORMATION SERVICE

The Office of Seniors' Interests recently handed over a Incontinence cheque to the Continence Foundation of Australia, W A All you wanted to know• but were afraid to ask! Bra nch, t o establis h a Continence In formation Service. The funds were provided by the State Government as part of the Social Ad v~ ntage package. The service will be based at the Independent Living Centre in Slienton Park. · The service will provide information about help available for people with continence difficulties. In a class of its own For further information you Helpllne 381 4925 V . " should contact Glenice Wilson Country Callers "l on telephone. (09) 381 4925, .008 814 925 · METROWEST DISTRI·BUTORS

for country callers the toll free Cont~ ' oundet&on of Auttrel MI 6 Sa rich Court, Osborne Park 6017 {W" tem Auttrellan Brand'!) • number is 008 814 925. Phone: 446 8777, Fax: 446 ~091 Page 74-Llatenlng Poat-Autumn 1893 - ~ ~ ..- --·- - UNIT ASSOCIATIONS .

AUSTRALIAN EX-SERVICE ATOMIC SURVIVORS' ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED . Pr;esident: Mr. W.B. Plewright, 23 Kenwick Way, B.alga 6061. Tel: 342 6718. Secretary: Mrs D. Jackson, PO Box 411 , Midland 6056. Tet 2941054. Treasurer: Mrs D'. Thomas, 41 Parkfield Road, Kelmscott 6111 . Tel: 390 5762. Meets tl:lird Monday Febrt,.~~ry. April (AGM), June, August,· October, December at Belmont RSL Hall, Leake Street, Belmont, Bus 306 ex Perth Bus Station.

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ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS THE AUSTRALIAN WATER TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION . ASSOCIATION, WA BRANCH · . . President: Lr Col F.V. Hayes, 24 Shelldrake Way, President: Mr Jack Patterson, 15A Grev1lle Way, Willetton, 6155. Tel: 457 458.8. Secretary: ~1r. R.B. Girrawheen, Tel: 342 0142. Secretary: B. Thomas, 9 Camp bell: 108 West Road, Bassendean, 6054. Tel: Queens Road, · Mt Pleasant 6153. Tel: 364 3008. 279 3502: .. ' Meetings first Monday each month (exc.ept J~nuary) ·ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ARTILLERY Anzac Club 1130,'when Monday is a public holiday the ASSOCIATION (WA) : first Tuesday. All ex Water Transport welcome. President: Mr J.A.T. Hobbs, 10 EdgarWay, Mt Pleasant THE BURMA STAR ASSOCIATION 6153. Tel: 364 356.8. Secretary/Welfare officer: Mr H.A. WANNEROO BRANCH . Mofflin, Unit 5, No. 1 Hilda St. Shenton Park 6008. Tel: President: Major Rupert Plate! (Retd), 49 Banksia St, 325 4366. Treasurer:· Mr R.J. Shurman, 41 Hayes Ave. Joondanna 6060, Tel: 444 4914. Secretary: Ben Yokine. Tel: 3491843. Meet on the third.Monday each Colquhoun, 5 Oak land Avenue, Cloverd"le 6 J Q~ 1 TeJ: month at 10.00am at Anzac Club. Meetings are open to 277 4814. Meetings the second Tuesday ea~h mont~ 7 at al.l membe ~s . and members of affiliated Associations. the Nollamara Autumn Centre, Sylv1a Street, Nollamara. · · ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION THE BURMA STAR ASSOCIATION (WESTERN OFW.A. AUSTRALIAN BRANCH) President: M.J. Ryan, Tel: (Bus) 321 3808 (A/ H) President: Mr Solle Sloll, 70 Canada S~reet, · O i anella 307 2385. Secretary: T.R. Beard, Tel: .367 3002. Meets 6062. Tel: 276 7633. Secretary: Mr J.R. Hamilton, Unit second Sunday in February, April, June, August and 2, _No. 1 Kemp Place, Riv e ryal~ 61q:}. Tel: 479 1286. October at Holdfast Barracks, cnr Washington Street Meetings are arranged for SIX t1mes 1n the year on the and Canning Highway, Victoria Park at 10.30hrs. 3rd Wednesday of the month. Contact either of the ROYAL AUSTRALIAN 'NAVY'CO.RVETTES above for more information. ASSOCIATION (WA) THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN REGIMENT State President: A.E. Reed, .88 Matheson Road, ASSOCIATION (WA BRANCH) Applecross WA 6153. Tel: 364 5302. State Secretary: J. President: Ken Barrington: 1 el: 446 4227. Sec'ret~ry : Shepheard, Unit 45, Ocean Gardens, 60 Kalinda Drive, Kevin Trent. Tel: (h) 367 7794 (o). 323 4.485. All City Beach. Tel: 385 8400. State Treasurer: M. Corry, 4 correspondence cl - 3 Broad Street, Kensington, WA Nottingham Street, East Victoria Park. Tel: 361 2824. 615f Meets - second Wednesday of each month Meetings: February, May, Augusf.. November. (except January) -Contact the Secretary for details of venue and timing. ROYAL AUSTRALIAN SIGNALS ASSOCIATION OFWA . THE ROYAL MARINES ASSOCIATION President: Peter Lofdahl, 1/ B Brecknock Way, WESTERN AUSTRALIAN BRANCH Girrawheen 6064. Tel: 342 7871 . Se c r ~ t a ry ; Bert Lane, Presidtmt: Mr N. Bell, Unit 2/14 Joseph St. Maylands 6 River Ave. Maddington 6109. Tel: 459 3032. 6051 -Tel: 370 4775. Secretary: Mr Scott MacBain, 20 Treasurer: Bruce Jellis, Tel: 447 6270: Meetings: Anzac Manqers Way, Singleton 6175. Meetings: cor:nmiUee House first Thursday of each month at 7.00pm except meet~ at Navy Club Inc., 26 Marine Terrace, Fremantle January. at 1900.hrs second Monday of each month. General ROYAL REGIMENT OF FUSILIER~ ASSOCIATION meeting: at 2000 hrs. last Monday of each month, same Chairman: Mr P. Nori"is, 72 James Stre'et, Gosnells, place. · 6010. Tel: 398 4508. Secretary: MrS. Kent, Unit 2199 THE ROYAL NAVAL ASSOCIATION PERTH Owtram Road, Armadale, 61 .12. Tel: 339 7375. Meets . (WESTERN AUSTRALIAN BRANCH) "" second Wednesday of each month, 7.30pm at Anzac Chairman:-Mr Den is Porter, Lot 4 Connell Ave. Martin House, · 6110, Tel: 490·2136. Hon. Secretary: Mr David Lea, 13 SUBMARINE OLD CO,..RADES' ASSOCIATION OF Harcourt Place; Bellevue 6056, Tel: 274 4847. Postal Address: PO Box 1.692, Midland 6056. Meetings'tliird WESTERN AUSTRALIA Wedne~day President:.Tony Tyson, 12 Kooyong Ad, Rivervale W/l. of each month at Anzac House at 7.00pm. 6103. Secretary: M.M.E. (Michael) Pearson, 8-106 THE ROYAL NAVAL ASSOCIATION Terrace Ad, Perth 6000 Ph: 221 1037. ~eets at th ~ (ROCKINGHAM· AND DISTRICTS) BRANCH . Leederville Bowling Club second Wednesday of every Chairma.n: MrDavid Wiseman, 7 Andros Road, Safety month at 7.30pm (except December). Bay.6169Tel: 5921458. Hon Secretary: MrWalter East, 6 Battic· Mews, Waikiki 6169. Tel: 52.7 8588. Hon. ntE AUSTRALIAN FEDERA:r.ION OF TOTAlLY & Treasurer: Mrs Dorothy Rawe, ?O Elmslie Street, Orelia PERMANENTLAY INCAPACITATED EX-SERVICE 6167 l;el: 419 4749. Meetings: First Tuesday of each MEN AND WOMEN LIMITED WESTERN month at TS Anzac, Point Peron Road at 7.30pm. AUSTRALIAN BRANCH INC. THIRTYNINERS' ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA TPI Memorial Estate, Bag Lot ~ •. Post Office, Como Meeting .dates: Gallipoli Room, Anzac House, 4th 6152. President: Eric J. Ahern O'AM, Secretary: Peter Wednesday. March, May, July September and Lofdahl Address: 80 Henley St, Como 6152. Phone 450 Nove111ber. All enquiries to . the Secretary. State 1893 or 450 1921 .• Meetings 21")d Tuesday of each Presipent: ~ ¥r J.P. Hall, AM BEM JP, Unit A/3 Hellam month (except January) commencing at 10.30am. Grove, Booragoon 6154. Tel:. 364 7776. State Lunches available weekdays - by booking one day Secretary: Mrs F.E. Johnson OAM, 38 Renwick Street, prior. · · South _Perth. Tel: 367 5~49 . · Page 78-Listening Post-Autumn 1H3 . ' . . Unff Associations cont.

V.A."& A.A.M.W.S. {A) 2/2ND COMMANDO AS.SOC,tATION OF·AUSTRALIA President: Glyn Cody, 138A Karrinyup Road, President: B.C. Langtidge, 18 Pleasant Grove Circle. Karrinyup 6018. T~l : 341 3323. Secretary: Ena McGinn, Mandurah WA6210. Tel: (09) 582 2166. Secretary: J.W. 9 Castile Street, we·mbley Downs, 6019. Tel: 446 3742. Carey, 13 Stoddart Way, Bateman WA 6155. Tel: Meetings arranged monthly at members homes. 332 7050. Meetings held on second Tuesday of each contact Secretary for information. month at 10.30am at Anzac Club. 2/3 FIELD REGIMENT-ASSOCIATION W.A. VIETNAM LOGISTICS SUPPORT VETERANS' T~l: - President: Mr Hugh Farrier, 384 5573. Secretary: ASSOCIATION Mr M. Davison, Tel: 330 3033. Treasurer: K. (Sandy) President: Ric Gilling, 137 Waterford Drive, Hillarys leek, Tel: 3371908. Address for correspondence: Pd 6025 Tel: 401 9304 (H) 300 1582 (B).. Secretary: Don Box 198, Palmyra '6157. Meets .second Wednesday Hitchenson, Lot 156 Forest Hills Pde, Bindoon 6502. each month, 11.00am Anzac House. Tel: 5761414, Fax/Ans 5761422. Meetings br,-monthly at venue to be announced. · · 2/3RD LT.A.A. REGIMENT ASSOCIATION CWA aRANCH) . -. . . VIETNAM VETERANS ASSOCIATION OF President: W.G. Connor, 6 Exton Place, Spearwood, AUSTRALIA WA BRANCH INC. WA 6163. Tel: 418 a·os1. Secretary: G.G. Fellows, 15 PO Box 21, Maylands 6051 . Office: 219 Railway Martell Street, Warnbro, WA 6169. Tel: 593 1273. Parade, Maylands. Ph: 370 3011 . Fax: 332 4964. Treasurer: G.P.M. Howat, 20 Milne Street, Baywater, President: Rob Cox 332 4964. Secretary: lan Hunter WA 6053. Tel: 271 5352. Meetings as arranged by 341 4621 . We1fare officer Joe Cox 332 4964. Meetings committee. are held three-monthly, Red Cross Hall, Verdun Street, rear RGH Hollywood. 2/3RD MACHINE GUN BATTALION ASSOCIATION Committee ·meets when necessary. President: K.E. WA RSL BOWLS SECTION Eckermann, 31 Tranquil Road, Kelmscott 6111 . Teli Management Committee meet every third Monday 390 6072. Secretary: F.J. (Banjo) Binstead, 101 Star at the Kitchener Park Bowl.ing Club at 10.00am. Street, Carlisle 6101. Tel: 361 8762: President: Mr Dudley Docking, Tel: 341 1795. Hon. State Secretary: Mr Ted Philp, Tel: 450 4033. 2/4TH MACHINE GUN BATTALION AIF ASSOCIATION (WESTERN AUSTRALIA) President: P.A. Tomkins, 2 Devlin Place, Morley WA WRAAC ASSOCIATION 24 Rosemead Street, 6062. Secretary: C.J. McPherson, President: Ms Cla(e Brody, 25a Maree Tel: 377 5838. Meetings Hamersley WA 6022, Tel: 342 5482. Secretary: Mrs Avenue, Beechboro WA 6063. third Tuesday each month at 10.00am. Nancy Carlson, 24 lveston Road, Ly.!)wood 6147 Tel: . - 457 3984. Address all correspondence to Box 6149, 2/7TH AUSTRALIAN FIELD REGIMENT East Perth WA 6892. ASSOCIATION WRAAF BRANCH- RAAF ASSOCIATION • President: Mr Peter Landon, 1 Pinnafore Ct., President: Mrs E. Southern, 31 L&rrissa.Road, Willetton Duncraig WA 6023, Tel: 448 0845. Secretary: Mr Bill 6155, 457 8628. Secretary: Mrs S. Bland, 2 Graphic Woods, 4/2 Lewington Gdns. Bibra Lake WA 6163, Court, Beldon 6025, 401 8296. Meetings field at 8.00pm 'Tel: 417 3989. Meets in the Pure Steel Room, on the first Tuesday of each month in the Meg Olive Gloucester Park· at 11 .00am on the first Tuesday of Room at the Air Force Memorial Estate at Bull Creek. each month except January. · ASSOCIATIO,. 2/13TH FIELD AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION _,.. OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA INC. President: A. Ja'mieson, 53 Valencia Avenue, Church• President: Lt.Col. H.R. Wenn EO RL, 202 Burniston St, lands. Tel: 446 4591. Secretary: L. McCarthy, 31 Scarborough 6019. Tel: 341 4147. Secretary: Lt.Col. Marradong Street, Coolbinia. Tel: 4441927. Details of E.W. Oubberlin, EO RL JP,-28A Hou'ston Ave, Dianella meetings- contact·Se_cretary. 6062. Tel: 2751348. Meetings as arranged by committee. 2/16TH AUSTRAt.IAN INFANTRY BATTALION Z SPECIAL UNIT INTERNATIONAL (INC.) . A.I.F. ASSOCIATION' . • PO Box 490, Kalamunda, WA 6076 ..Chairman: Jack President: A.J. Smith, ·184 McDonald St, Joondanna Sue, Tel: 274 6619. Secretary: Cec Anderson, Tel: 6060. Tel: 444 4748. 'Secretary: H.E. Gregory, 12 Keall 401 6682. Treasurer: Barry Sue, Tel: 309 5353. Pass, Winthrop 6150. Tel: 332 8884. Treasurer: K.P. BATTALION Nicol, 31 Valerie St, Dianella 6062. Tel: 276 2146. 1ST AUSTRALIAN PARACHUTE Pigeon post: M.T. Jervls, 432 Cambridge St. Rose, 19 JuKes Way, Wembley Editor President: Mr Bill Floreat P~rk ' 6014 . Tel: 387 4419. Committee meets at Gardens WA 6016. Tel: 444 6858. Secretary: Mr Rpn Anzac House on the first Wednesday each month at Waters, 5 Catesby Street, City Beach. WA 6015. Tel: 10.30am. . 385 9140. 2/28TH BATTALION AND 24TH ANTI-TANK COY. 2/1-2/2 PIONEERS W.A. -. ASSOCIATION Chairman: LA. Preedy, 1f)2 Keightley Road; Shenton President: E. Harrod, 13 Hadley St, Safety Bay 6169. Park 6008. Tel: 381 6294. Meetings to be held at Anzac Tel: 527 6833. Secretary: W. Carlton, 190 Coode St, House on third Friday in March, July and November in .Como 6152. Tel:' 367 '4016. Annual re-union to be advised. · · Anzac Club. · u.t.nlng Poitt-Autunln. 1111-Peee 71 MEDAlS ·. UnitAssociations cont. A long forgotten piece of Sherwood Foresters history came to light recently when a Military Medal awarded to a civilian lady - Lo.uisa Nolan - came V32ND BATTALION ASSOCIATIC;>N (WA), up for auction at Sothebys. Few people know that President: Mr Fenton Smjth, 184 Shaftesbvry Ave, the MM can be awarded to civilian women· for Bedford 6052. Tel: 271 6492: Sec/Treasurer: Mr Colin bravery when under fire (strangely the same does Edmistoil, Unit 3, 456.Main Street, Balcatta, 6021. Tel: not apply to men!) .. Louis& Nolan was awarded the 349 0799. medal for bravery in Dublin during the E~ster ~onday 2/43RD BATTALION ASSOCIATION (WA BRANCH)· uprising. President: Mr R.E. Tilby, 15 Davidson Rd., Attadale 178 ·Brigade, consisting of the partially trained 6156. Tel: 330'3631 . Secretary: M~ K.C. Porteus, 5/99 2/Sth 2/6th 2nth (Robin Hood) and 2/8th Bns. The Davies Rd, Claremont 6010. Tel: 3M 6327. Meets SherWood Foresters formed the major part of the Anzac House every third Wednesday', AGM Force sent over to suppress the rebelliun. The 2/7th September. · and 2/8th Battalions suffered heavy casualties in 7 ARMY TROOPS COY RAE ASSOCIATION Dub.lin and at one time a number of wounded were · .• President: Jack Benari·,38 Roebuck Drive, Manning lying in the road near Lower -Mount Street Bridge WA 6152, Tel: 450 .3a76. Secretary: Alec Wallace, and were eve_ntually tended by nurses and staff from 24/31 East Street, Fremantle WA 6160. Annual nearby hospitals. lt is understood from newspaper reunion last Friday of September. Past members reports, although this is not reported in the Forester most welco!lle. Battalion histories, that Louisa Nolan managed to stop the firing by running into the road with .her 11TH DIVISION SIGKALS ASSOCIATION hands up and then dragg~d a British officer·to cover. For enquiries contact- President: ·u Col O.R. Videan, She then walked towards the houses occupied by 23 Halley Street, lnnaloo 6018. Tel: 446 6304. Secret• the IRA and stopped their firing while the rest of the ary: Rob Hutchings, 21 Melbourne Way, Morley 6062. wounded were moved. Tel: 276 3158. Regular meetings held at 150 Harbourne Stret, Wembley. Miss Louisa Nolan and another lady, Miss 11TH 1914-1918 & 2/11TH BN ASSOCIATION Florence Williams, were awarded the Military Medal in London Gazette President: K.T. Johnson, MBE EO JP, 37 Blaven Way, dated 24 Jan, 1917 and were Ardross 6153. Secretary/Treasurer: decorated by King George V at Buckingham Palace J.C. Watson, 686 on 24 Feb 1917. · _ Canning Hi!iJhway, Applecross 6153. Tel: 364 2126. Meetings: th1rd Tuesday each month (except January) Louisa Nolan was an actress and only 18 at the 10.00am, Gallipoli Room, Anzac House. time; she subsequently continued in this career and 18TH BATTALION, is understood to have died two years ago. Due no THE CAMERON doubt HIGHLANDERS OF WA ASSOCIATION to the fac.t that the 178 (Sherwood Foresters) Brigade moved to France in Jan 1917 and Presrdent: Mr Bob Woods, 32 Marjorie was Avenue, involved in m!Jch more severe Shelley WA 6155," Tel: 457 fighting 2229. Secretary: Mr Jim subsequently, the incident in Mount Street appears Richardson, 6 lsaac Street, Melville WA 6156, Tel: to have been forgotten and we have no record of 330 5405. Members advised re meetings by written Louisa Nolan being given any Regimental letter as required . recogn~tion . Perhaps some reader can put l:JS right on this point. 44TH BA:rTALION ASSOCIATION' Committee meets when called. Annual Reunion on lt is believed that only two Military Medals were advice. President: A. Collins, 134 Roseb~rry Street, awarded to civilian women although others have of Bedford. Tel: 271 4448. course gone to Servjcewomen. Louisa Nolan's medal was sold for £2,400. 48TH & 2/48TH BATTALION ASSOCIATION Co~rtesy of "FIRM AND FORESTER". President: D. Mclean, Unit 2/50 Endeavour Avenue, Bullcreek 6155. Secretary: D.A. Hamilton, 80 Stoneham Road, Attadale 6156. Tel: 330 2923. Meetings and luncheon held at the Carlton Hotel, 248 Hay Street East at 11 .30am on the third Monday of each month.

480 SQUADRON RAAF ASSOCIATION (WA) President: W.E.M. (Gerry) Bateman, OFC,· 221 South Terrace, Como 6152. Tel: 367 3063. Secretary: N.B. Johnson, 63 Kirwan Street, Floreat Park 6014. Tel: 387 4229. Treasurer: T. R. Gallop, 19 Felstead Crescent, Ha'mersley 6022. Tel: 447 4037. Meetings are held four times a year. ·

1MO DUNKIRK VETERANS ASSOCIATION Meets first Tuesday each month North Perth Bowling Club 1.30pm. President: R.H. Duncalfe, Tel: 295 1689. Secretary/Treasurer: Peter W. Hessell, Tel: 344 1756. p 10-LJatenlnt Poet-AutuMn 1- - Cheaper house and contents·insurance for tough titnes. ~-thi!J~! . . Compare these· rates with what you're c urrently paying. You'll find The Over SO's saves you money a nd gives you more bene fi ts.

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