Western Australian War Memorials Corvettes’ Memorial, Fremantle

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The Corvettes’ Memorial is located in the Monument Hill Memorial Reserve at the corner of High and Swanbourne Streets, Fremantle. The Memorial’s inscription reads:

(Plaque 1) A Memorial to all those who served in Corvettes and to those who lost their life in so doing during World War II

Ararat Colac Horsham Parkes Armidale Cootamundra Inverell Pirie Ballarat Cowra Ipswich Rockhampton Benalla Deloraine Junee Shepparton Bendigo Dubbo Kalgoorlie Stawell Bowen Echuca Kapunda Strahan Broome Fremantle Katoomba Tamworth Bunbury Gawler Kiama Toowoomba Bundaberg Geelong Latrobe Townsville Bathurst Geraldton Launceston Wallaroo Burnie Gladstone Lismore Warrnambool Cairns Glenelg Lithgow Wagga Castlemaine Goulburn Maryborough Whyalla Cessnock Gympie Mildura Wollongong

Unveiled by Roy M Ward National President RANCA 7/10/1984 Designed by Les Olsen

(Plaque 2) Corvette Statistics Displacement 850 tons approximately Length 186 feet Beam 31 feet Draught 8 feet 6 inches Propulsion 2 Triple Expansion Steam Engines Speed 16 Knots Crew 80 approximately Armament 1 4 inch gun 1 20 mm gun 4 .303 machine guns 40 depth charges

Places of Association or Rolls of Honour or Places of Birth from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs’ (DVA) WWII Nominal Roll are shown. The information in this document has been compiled from multiple sources. This document can be searched by text. Further biographical and Service information for each Sailor may be found on the National Archives of Australia, the Australian War Memorial, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and the DVA Websites.

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HMA (BATHURST KNIGHT Arthur Peter 20888 HIPPISLEY David Eric S6468 CLASS) CORVETTES KIA: 1Dec42 Cottesloe WA At Sea: 8Dec42 Born Bondi ROLL OF HONOUR LUCKMAN William 11257 NSW KIA: 1Dec42 Parramatta HOLDEN Denis S6197 At Sea:

NSW 8Dec42 Randwick NSW

MITCHELL Keighley John HOPKINS Norman Frank HMAS ARARAT B3757 KIA: 1 Dec42 F3843 At Sea: 8Dec42 Born Goondiwindi QLD Fremantle WA Commissioned: 16Jun43 SHEEAN Edward H1617 KIA: JENSEN William PAV35 At 1Dec42 Latrobe TAS Sea: 8Dec42 Born Blyth SA Battle Honours 37 Netherlands East Indies KIBBLE Charles Edward 23325 Pacific 1943-5 Soldiers At Sea: 8Dec42 Newcastle New Guinea 1943-4 NSW SMITH Frederick Francis S5399 MacVICAR James S5031 At No lives lost At Sea: 2Dec42 Rockdale Sea: 8Dec42 Born NSW Paddington NSW Decommissioned: 11Apr47 WILLIAMS William MALONE Ernest Anthony Brettingham 22022 At Sea: 25909 At Sea: 8Dec42 Born 2Dec42 Born Hobart TAS Sheffield England HMAS ARMIDALE McGARRIGLE Ronald John Sunk (Air Bombardment), east ANDERSON William Robert S6051 At Sea: 8Dec42 Born off Timor: 1 December 1942 22347 At Sea: 8Dec42 Randwick NSW Toowoomba QLD McMENNEMIN Raymond Commissioned: 11Jun42 AXFORD Stanley Don PA2618 Edward 24699 At Sea: At Sea: 8Dec42 Born 8Dec42 Melbourne VIC Battle Honours Subiaco WA MEREDITH Wilfred Bickford Darwin 1942 BUCKLAND James Reginald S4222 At Sea: 8Dec42 Pacific 1942 At Sea: 8Dec42 Sydney Vaucluse NSW New Guinea 1942 NSW PATERSON Donald Howie BURGESS Ernest S1313 At F4021 At Sea: 8Dec42 Perth Those Who Died Sea: 8Dec42 Adaminaby WA NSW PIESSE Edward Stanfield BAKER Bertram Henry COLDWELL Donald D/JX H1824 At Sea: 8Dec42 PM3727 KIA: 1Dec42 207340 RN At Sea: 8Dec42 Brighton TAS Northcote VIC Parents resided Millhouse QUAYLE Robert Allanson BEARD Leslie Irwin F3203 Yorkshire 21177 At Sea: 8Dec42 Born KIA: 1 Dec42 Perth WA EVANS Alfred Grant S6075 At Scarborough England BEECH William Ralph 22470 Sea: 8Dec42 Wagga Wagga QUIGLEY Maxwell Timothy KIA: 1Dec42 Hurstville NSW H1552 At Sea: 8Dec42 NSW GAY Bernard Alfred F3947 At Launceston TAS CURRIE Joseph PM2698 KIA: Sea: 8Dec42 Born Murray REID Harry Allan PM2670 At 1 Dec42 Williamstown VIC WA Sea: 8Dec42 Mildura VIC HARCOURT James Frank GOULD Raymond Arthur RUDLAND Harry Eric PA2817 24597 KIA: 1Dec42 Brisbane S4231 At Sea: 8Dec42 At Sea: 8Dec42 Adelaide SA QLD Sydney NSW SANSON William Edwin F3671 JENKYN Harry Ferror At Sea: 8Dec42 Mosman Merrychurch KIA: 1 Dec42 Park WA Sydney NSW

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SCHRADER Harold Reginald LAMSHED William Noel PELLETT Edward Keith 22004 PA1931 At Sea: 8Dec42 PM7679 Dis: 3Jul46 Born Dis: 12May44 Born Auburn Born Birkenhead SA Warracknabeal VIC VIC TRENBATH Keith William LANSBURY Arthur B2424 Dis: PRETT James Thomas 25818 25906 at Sea: 8Dec42 Born 22Jul46 Born Brisbane QLD Dis: Unavailable Born Adamstown NSW LAWSON Donald Raymond Sunderland England TURNER Albert Benjamin 26984 Dis: 28Jun46 Born PUCKERIDGE Charles Robert H1833 at Sea: 8Dec42 Eastwood NSW S/6241 Dis: 5Jul46 Born Hobart TAS LEONARD Victor Raymond Balmain NSW PM4055 Dis: 5Dec45 Born PULLEN Donald Rex PM4102 Those Who Returned Elsternwick VIC Dis: 20Apr44 Born Rescued by HMAS Kalgoorlie LYNDON Louis Roy H1987 Ulverstone TAS Dis: 22Jun46 Born RAYMOND Ray Beresford ARNDELL Reginald Clarence Launceston TAS S/5501 Dis: 2Jun44 Born S5741 Dis: 5Apr46 Born MADDOX Richard Donovan Campbelltown NSW Armidale NSW S/3628 Dis: 30Jan46 Born READ William James S6578 BARNES Ronald W1187 Dis: Sydney NSW Dis: 24Jul46 Born Pennant 26Aug44 Born Carlton VIC MADIGAN Colin Frederick Hills NSW BOOL Leigh Henry 20551 Dis: Dis: 15Feb46 Born Glen REEDMAN Denis Victor 4May45 Born Stanley TAS Innes NSW B2519 Dis: 8Feb46 Born CAIRNS Robert S4856 Dis: MILLHOUSE Eric Abbott Killarney Ireland 25Mar46 Born Ashington 23802 Dis: 30Aug46 Born RICHARDS David Herbert Dis: England Naracoorte SA 5Apr48 Born Williamstown CARO Russel Martin PM4100 MORLEY Edward George VIC (Captain of HMAS Dis: 4mar46 Born S6432 Dis: 28Oct43 Born Armidale) Elsternwick VIC Adamstown NSW ROBERTS John Michael CLELAND Roy David W/1331 McKELLAR William David Dennis S/V54 Dis: 24Jna44 Dis: 25Mar44 Born West 20198 Dis: 15Jul46 Born Born Redfern NSW Footscray VIC Liverpool England SANDERSON Geoffrey Clive DAVIES David Roger Roland McKOY Kenneth Leo 21068 PM4622 Dis: 10Jul46 Born 11446 Dis: 18Dec45 Born Dis: 6Aug45 Born Howlong Mornington VIC Ravenswood QLD NSW SIM Leonard Keith S/6330 Dis: DAVIES Raymond James NICHOLAS William Thomas 11Apr46 Born Newtown 20386 Dis: 23Dec46 Born Trew 6337 Dis: 14Nov45 NSW Williamstown VIC Born Ely England WEBSTER David Aburn H1935 DEVLIN George Richardson OSBORN Phillip George Dis: 27Apr46 Born St Marys PM966 Dis: 5Jun46 Born R/23042 Dis: 9Nov57 Born TAS Maida Vale England Adelaide SA WHITTING William George DUCKWORTH Jack B2234 PALMER Lloyd George Dis: Dis: 5Oct45 Born Cardiff Dis: 17Oct45 Born Scone 15Dec48 Born Williamstown Wales NSW VIC WILLIAMSON Maxwell Joseph HIGGINS Leslie Ingram 25947 PANKHURST Charles Henry S3537 Dis: 12Apr46 Born Dis: 3Jan46 Born Pingelly 22327 Dis: 6Jul50 Born Yass NSW WA Brisbane QLD WILSON Ronald Charles LAMB Douglas Hatton Dis: PARKER John Percival PM4065 Dis: 26Feb46 Born 29Apr46 Born Bombay PM4052 Dis; 6Mar46 Born Brighton VIC (Mumbai) India Brunswick VIC

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HMAS BALLARAT HMAS BATHURST WEEPERS George Williams Commissioned: 30Aug41 PA3158 Died 1Mar45 Commissioned: 6Dec40 Adelaide SA Battle Honours: Battle Honours: Pacific 1941-45 Decommissioned: 17 Jan46 Indian Ocean 1942-44 New Guinea 1942-44 Pacific 1945 Okinawa 1945 HMAS BROOME HAYES Kenneth Ronald 24355 No lives lost Illness: 9May42 Clayfield Commissioned: 29Jul42 QLD Decommissioned: 27Sep46 MORTON Allan Francis 8871 Battle Honours: Illness: 12Aug44 Albury Pacific 1942-45 NSW HMAS BENALLA New Guinea 1942-44 Decommissioned: 27Sep46 Commissioned: 27Apr43 No lives lost

Battle Honours: Decommissioned: Apr46 HMAS BURNIE New Guinea 1943-44 Commissioned: 15Apr41 No lives lost HMAS BUNBURY Battle Honours: Decommissioned: 28Jan46 Commissioned: 3Jan43 Pacific 1942-45 Indian Ocean 1942-44 Battle Honours: Okinawa 1945 HMAS BENDIGO Pacific 1943-45 New Guinea 1943-44 HIATT George Arthur Howard Commissioned: 10May1941 F3503 Accident: 12Nov42 No lives lost Perth WA Battle Honours: Pacific 9142-44 Decommissioned: 26Aug46 Decommissioned: 5Jul46 New Guinea: 1942-44 Okinawa 1945 HMAS BUNDABERG HMAS CAIRNS No lives lost Commissioned: 12Sep42 Commissioned: 11May42 Decommissioned: 27Sep46 Battle Honours: Battle Honours: Pacific 1942-45 Pacific 1942-45 HMAS BOWEN New Guinea 1943-44 Indian ocean 1942-45 Sicily 1943 Commissioned: 9Nov42 DILLON John Joseph B3561 Okinawa 1945 Accident: 9Jan43 Goomeri Battle Honours: QLD No lives lost Pacific 1942-45 New Guinea 1943-44 Decommissioned: 26Mar46 Decommissioned: 17Jan46

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HMAS CASTLEMAINE HMAS COOTAMUNDRA Battle Honours: Commissioned: 7Aug41 Pacific 1942-43 Commissioned: 30Apr43 Battle Honours: No lives lost Darwin 1942-43 Battle Honours: Pacific 1942-43 Darwin 1943 Decommissioned: 7Feb47 New Guinea 1942-44 Pacific 1943-45 New Guinea 1944 No lives lost HMAS ECHUCA WINDSOR Ronald Henry Decommissioned: 14Dec45 PA2484 Drowned: 30Aug44 Commissioned: 7Sep42 Adelaide SA Battle Honours: HMAS CESSNOCK Decommissioned: 8Jun59 Pacific 1942-44 New Guinea 1943-44 Commissioned: 26Jan42 HMAS COWRA COATES Ronald George 22366 Battle Honours: Presumed Dead: 13Aug43 Pacific 1942 Commissioned: 8Oct43 Launceston TAS New Guinea 1942 Indian Ocean 1942-45 Battle Honours: Decommissioned: 29Jun48 Sicily 1943 Pacific 1943-45 New Guinea 1944 DOUGLAS Arthur Christopher HMAS FREMANTLE 23683 Illness: 29Mar43 No lives lost Melbourne VIC Commissioned: 24Mar43 Decommissioned: 26Jun53 Decommissioned: 12Jul46 Battle Honours: Darwin 1943 HMAS DELORAINE Pacific 1943-45 HMAS COLAC Damaged (Shore based Commissioned: 22Nov41 McLAUCHLAN Kevin David artillery): 26May45 B2253 Drowned: 14Sep45 Battle Honours: Brisbane QLD Commissioned: 6 Jan42 Darwin 1942 Pacific 1942-45 Decommissioned: 22Jun59 Battle Honours: New Guinea 1943-44 Pacific 1942-45 New Guinea 1942-44 No lives lost HMAS GAWLER

SHUTE Brian Milton F4189 Decommissioned: 30Jun48 Commissioned: 14Aug42 KIA: 26May45 SMITH Stanley Risien 22194 Battle Honours: Wounds: 26May45 HMAS DUBBO Pacific 1942 Indian Ocean 1943-45 Decommissioned: 27Nov45 Commissioned: 31Jul42 Sicily 1943

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HMAS GLENELG No lives lost No lives lost Commissioned: 16Nov42 Decommissioned: 5Apr46 Decommissioned: 17Nov45 Battle Honours: Pacific 1942-45 HMAS GEELONG New Guinea 1943-44 HMAS INVERELL Sank following a collision with US Tanker York: 18Oct44 No lives lost Commissioned: 17Sep42

Commissioned: 16Jan42 Decommissioned: 14Jan46 Battle Honours: Darwin 1943 Battle Honours: Pacific 1942-45 Pacific 1942-44 HMAS GOULBURN New Guinea 1944 No lives lost Commissioned: 28Feb41 No lives lost Decommissioned: 14jun46 Battle Honours: Pacific 1942-44 HMAS GERALDTON New Guinea 1942-44 HMAS IPSWICH

Commissioned: 6Apr42 PAGES Cecil Lucien Henry Commissioned: 13Jun42 4979 Accident: 23Mar41 Battle Honours: Lidcombe NSW Battle Honours: Pacific 1942 Pacific 1942 Indian Ocean 1942-45 Decommissioned: 27Sep46 Indian Ocean 1942-45 Sicily 1943 Sicily 1943 East Indies 1944 No lives lost HMAS GYMPIE Okinawa 9145

Decommissioned: 14Jun46 Commissioned: 4Nov42 JARIUS Victor 20224m Illness: 13Mar 43 Lota QLD Battle Honours: HMAS GLADSTONE Pacific 1943-45 Decommissioned: 5Jul46 New Guinea 1943-44 Commissioned: 22Mar43 No lives lost HMAS JUNEE Battle Honours: Pacific 1943-45 Decommissioned: 23Msy46 Commissioned: 11Apr44 New Guinea 1943-44 Battle Honours: No lives lost HMAS HORSHAM New Guinea 1944 Pacific 1944-45 Decommissioned: 16Jul56 Commissioned: 18Nov42 No lives lost Battle Honours: None Decommissioned: 21Aug57

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HMAS KALGOORLIE HMAS KIAMA Decommissioned: 23Mar46

Commissioned: 7 Apr42 Commissioned: 26Jan44 HMAS LISMORE Battle Honours: Battle Honours: Darwin 1942-43 Pacific 1944-45 Commissioned: 24Jan41 Pacific 1942-43 New Guinea 1944 New Guinea 1943-44 Battle Honours: Okinawa 1945 HANCOCK Edgar Murray Indian Ocean 1941-44 B5360 Aircraft Accident Sicily 1943 No lives lost (Dakota A65-54): 15Nov45 Pacific 1945 Ipswich QLD Okinawa 1945 Decommissioned: 8May46 Decommissioned: 3Apr46 DUNN Edward Joseph PM2230 27596 Accident (Drowned): HMAS KAPUNDA 10Feb41 Born Port HMAS LATROBE Melbourne VIC Commissioned: 23Jun42 IRVING John Francis 17214 Commissioned: 6Nov42 Accident (Drowned): Battle Honours: 10Feb41 Lane Cove NSW Pacific 1942-45 Battle Honours: LEE Tom 17704 Accident New Guinea 1943-44 Darwin 1943 (Drowned): 10Feb41 (Aged Pacific 1942-45 14) Hurstville NSW No lives lost New Guinea 1943-44 Borneo 1945 Decommissioned: 3Jul46 Decommissioned: 14Jan46 No lives lost HMAS LITHGOW HMAS KATOOMBA Decommissioned: 13Mar53 Commissioned: 14Jun41 Commissioned: 17Dec41 HMAS LAUNCESTON Battle Honours: Battle Honours: Darwin 1942 Darwin 1942 Commissioned: 9Apr42 Pacific 1941-45 Pacific 1942-45 New Guinea 1942-44 New Guinea 1942-44 Battle Honours: Pacific 1942-45 WALKER James Harris No lives lost Indian Ocean 1942-44 Accident: 16Aug42 East Indies 1944 Tamworth NSW Decommissioned: 2Aug48 Okinawa 1945 Decommissioned: 8Jun48 SMITH John Illness: 31Jul45 Born Ballater Scotland SMITH Arnold Beverley Died: 25Sep46 Born Toronto Canada

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HMAS Commissioned: 10Oct42 HMAS SHEPPARTON MARYBOROUGH Battle Honours: Commissioned: 1Feb43 Commissioned: 12Jun41 Pacific 1942-45 New Guinea 1943-4 Battle Honours: Battle Honours: Okinawa 9145 Pacific 1943 Pacific 1942 New Guinea 1943-44 Indian Ocean 1942-44 CATLEY Arnold Edwin Sicily 1943 PA2638 KIA: 11Apr43 Largs No lives lost Bay SA TURNER Kenneth Royston CREMER Victor Joseph Decommissioned: 10May46 21604 Illness: 13Aug44 PM1980 KIA: 11Apr43 Born HMAS STAWELL Melbourne VIC Decommissioned: Dec45 DELANEY Frederick George Commissioned: 7 Aug43 PM5066 KIA: 11Apr43 Camberwell VIC Battle Honours: HMAS MILDURA ELLERSHAW John Winston Pacific 1943-45 KIA: 11Apr43 Henley SA New Guinea 1943-44 GLADMAN Douglas Maxwell Commissioned: 23Jul41 Borneo 1945 PM5089 KIA: 11Apr43

Footscray VIC Battle Honours: No lives lost KEELING John Isaac H1473 Pacific 1941-45 KIA: 11Apr43 Hobart TAS New Guinea 1943-44 Decommissioned: 26Mar46 ROSS Victor George B3635

KIA: 11Apr43 Brisbane QLD No lives lost

HMAS STRAHAN Decommissioned: 5Apr46 Decommissioned: 11Sep53

Commissioned: 14Mar44

HMAS PARKES HMAS Battle Honours: ROCKHAMPTON Pacific 1944-45 Commissioned: 25May44 New Guinea 1944 Commissioned: 21jan42 Battle Honours: NEWMAN Bertie John Pacific 1944 Battle Honours: Frederick 23366 Drowned: New Guinea 1944 Pacific 1942-45 20Nov45 Claremont WA New Guinea 9144 No lives lost Decommissioned: 25Jan46 No lives lost Decommissioned: 17Dec45 Decommissioned: 5Aug46 HMAS TAMWORTH

HMAS PIRIE Commissioned: 8Aug42 Damaged (Air Bombardment), near Milne Bay PNG: 11 April Battle Honours: 1943 Pacific 1942-45 Indian Ocean 1943-44

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Battle Honours: DEANS William Hargreaves Pacific 1942 Injuries: 24Sep43 Born Glasgow Scotland CLARKE John Joseph PM2278 HMAS WAGGA Accident: 11Jun43 Born Decommissioned: 30Apr46 Bootle England Commissioned: 18Dec42 COWEN Darius Leo Bernard H1875 Accident; 11Jun43 Battle Honours: HMAS TOOWOOMBA Gardeners Bay TAS Pacific 1943-45 GARRITY George William New Guinea 1943-44 Commissioned: 9 Oct41 25511 Accident: 11Jun43 Sydney NSW No lives lost Battle Honours: Pacific 1942 Decommissioned: 28Oct60 Indian Ocean 1942-44 HMAS WARRNAMBOOL NOTT Alfred Henry H2266 Wrecked (Mine Detonation), HMAS WHYALLA Illness: 1Dec45 Launceston near Cockburn Reef QLD: 13 TAS September 1947 Commissioned: 8Jan42 ROBERTS Maurice 16399 Died: 2Mar46 Upper Commissioned: 23Sep41 Battle Honours: Holloway England Pacific 1942-45 Battle Honours: New Guinea 1942-44 Decommissioned: 5Jul46 Darwin 1942 Okinawa 1945 Pacific 1942-45 New Guinea 1942 No lives lost HMAS TOWNSVILLE TYRES Dudley Leslie PM8296 Decommissioned: 16May46 Commissioned: 19Dec41 Died: 19Apr47 Born Springvale VIC Battle Honours: GARRETT Ronald John 34344 HMAS WOLLONGONG Darwin 1942 Killed: 13Sep47 Born Pacific 1942-45 Shepparton VIC (ex-WWII Commissioned: 23Oct41 New Guinea 1944 Service) HYLAND John Herbert 28583 Battle Honours: No lives lost Killed: 13Sep47 Born Pacific 1942-45 Latrobe TAS (No WWII Indian Ocean 1942-45 Decommissioned: 5Aug46 Service) Sicily 1943 LOTT Norman Lloyd 28608 Mediterranean 1943 Killed: 13Sep47 Born South East Indies 1943 HMAS WALLAROO Yarra VIC (No WWII Okinawa 1945 Sunk (Collision), Indian Ocean: Service) 11 June 1943 SIGG Donald Bain 31199 No lives lost Killed: 13Sep47 Born Swan Commissioned: 15Jul42 Hill VIC (No WWII Service) Decommissioned: 11Feb46

Decommissioned: 13Sep47

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