POSTAGE SURFACE PAID ~ MAIL AUSTRALIA LISTENING THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE RETURNED & SEF\VICES LEAGUE WA BRANCH (INCORPORATED) PATRON: THE GOVERNOR OF WESTERN PO BOX Y3023 AUSTRALIA HIS EXCELLENCY MAJOR EAST ST. GEORGES TCE, PERTH, WA 6832 POST GENERAL MICHAEL JEFFERY AO MC AUTUMN, 1996 Registered by Australi. n No. PP607128/00001 VOL. 19, No. 1 - PRICE $1

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LEST WE FORGET .: Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs

HELP FOR VETERANS The Department of Veterans• Affairs recognises that Veterans and War Widows want to remain independent and in their own homes for as long as possible. The Department has several programmes that will give infonnation and help you use local community services t-:» maintain your independence: • Advice about your local community • Day Club De\i.elopment • Joint Ventures Programme • Volunteer Support Programme • Respite Care Assistance • Carer Support Programme • Hostel Development Programm1e • Health Promotion Programme • Financial Information Service The Department continues to provide a wide. range of benefits including pensions. allowances and health care. If yo~ want ·to kno:w·more please call the Veterans• Affairs Net,.~rork . 3668444·. Country Callers Toll Free· 1800 , ~ 13304 HB 3(,Q .L / 5 LISTENING POST Contents Page PRESIDENTS MESSAGE 3 Publhben Re111med .t Services League W.A. Branch (IDcorporated) Anzac Howe P.O. Box Y3023, ASSEMBLY AREAS ANZAC DAY 7 28 St Gecqes Terrace East St Georges Tenacc Perth. W.A. 6000 . P«th, W.A. 6832 LOCAL HEROES HONOURED 9 Tel: 325 9799 Fax: 325 7432 FROM THE NATIONAL PRESIDENT 13

AUSTRALIA-THAILAND MEM. PROJECT 31 REUNIONS 48 VETERANS' AFFAIRS 49 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 51

BOOK REVIEWS 54 LOST TRAILS 57 Editorial EdltorfChalnniiJ: Mr W.J. Surridge SUB-BRANCH NEWS 59 DeputyI MrG. Tuner WOMEN'S AUXILIARY 63 . Committee: Mrs B.H. Clinton, Mrs. D.J. Dowson, Mrs A. Keynes, Messrs J. Brigden, UNIT ASSOCIATIONS 65 T.K. Uoyd, P.White Co-opCed Memben LAST POST 72 Messrs E. Hiochliffe, R.D. Mercer, K.J. Morrison, L.J. Oweos

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Page 2- Listening Post- Autumn 1996 State President's Message • t • . As I write this message we have ·just witnessed Australia Day celebrations wheo, once more, the media have concentrated on how this, our day, is not a day for each· and every Australian. It seemed to give credence to certain minori, ty gr(;>ups and public figures withih the Australian society to again start criticis, ing our flag be~~e it contains the Union Jack, which these people keep trying to convince Australians that the only reason we keep the Union Jack within our flag is bee;ause we are still subservient to the United Kingdom. Like any other country's flag, ours is a symbol: a symbol which speaks for the nation's history and soul. One could say that when the flag is unfurled it tells' of the birth, the growth, the trials, the glories and the hopes of the people who fly it. Our flag symbolises the truth that the overwhelming majority of the people who explored, pioneered and developed Australia were of English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish backgrounds and that every aspect of cultural, social, constitu, tiona.l, legal and religious life had its roots in the United Kingdom.

The symbolism of the Union Jack is Christian, high, Our flag has been part of our history since 1901 and lighting that the majority of Australians were is Australia. It doesn't represent any other country. Christian, and still are today. The three Christian Our Anzacs in Gallipoli, who fought under this flag, crosses represent St George, patron saint of England; did not feel they were searching for a 'new identity'. St Andrew, patron saint of Scotland and St Patrick, The Australian flag flew proudly over HMAS Sydney patron saint of Ireland. As has been stressed even by as she defeated the German ship Emden in World non,British writers, British constitutional and legal War I. developments to a high degree reflected. the Christian concept concerning the uniqueness , and therefore the The first allied flag raised in Singapore immediately rights and duties , of each individual. following the Japanese surrender in 1945 was an Australian flag made in secret by the Australian pris, This flag represents our national heritage. Any per, oners,of,war. In two world wars, in Korea, in Malaya; sons who attack our flag are in fact not attacking the in Borneo and in Vietnam, Australians fought against symbol itself, but are attacking our history and tradi, totalitar.ianism under the symbol of the Australian tions for which this flag stands. A flag is meant to be National Flag. It is this flag which truly symbolises an enduring national symbol, not something that is to ·Australia's real heritage and which has been so closely be changed every time some person or persons don't associated with everything worthwhile in Australian like the look of it, or want to change it for political history. reasons We know the reasons behind the recent cam, paign to change our flag, yet our politicians do not One factor which has prevented the Government from proclaiming a new flag as easily as it acted with have t:he intestinal fortitude to hold l! referendum. our anthem and the national colours is that it is pro, Look at Canada when its flag was changed without a tected, to some extent, by the Flags Act (1953 ). Any< referendum. That flag change was at the whim of the change would have to be by an amendment in politicians to appease a minority group, the French Parliament, with all the resultant debate and publicity. Canadians. These people now prefer to fly the flettNle :.. The initial push for a change has been halted. lys of France, another country. Undoubtedly, without the fine work of the Flag The critics of our flag continue to argue that our flag Associations across the nation, Australia might well does not represent the Aboriginal people or our ethnic have had imposed on it a new flag by now. However, community (the politically correct word to describe there is ho ro~m for complacency during this next our immigrants). What a lot of rubbish. I su~gest thes~ decade as we approach the centenary of our Federation anti,Australian flag people check their history. The and the Centenary of our flag's birth , the year 2001. Aboriginal people never had a flag to represent their The~e will be stronger TJlOves to make Australia a culture, yet in the Australian flag is the Southern republic, with the additional rider: ''When we become Cross, which plays a central role in Aboriginal mythol, a republic, we'll need a new flag''. The policy of multi, ogy. In recent times radical p~ople have come up with culturalfsm will make it more difficult for Australia to an Aboriginal flag, and that was purely for political retain its national heritage, along with the anti,British, purposes. anti,Royal propaganda, all relating to the presence of As for our immigrants, most come here voluntarily the Union Jack in our flag. for the freedom enshrined in our social institutions, Then there is the psychological effect of the green which this flag represents. It would b~ impcissible to and gold syndrome, national sporting colours, now have a flag that represents all cultural and ethnic groups incorrectly promoted as being our national. colours. . Listening Post- Autumn 1996- Page 3 At Hollywood Private Hospital - it's all

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Page 4 - Listening Post- Autumn 1996 State E:rcecut1ve -··Last year ended on a high note. for the League STATE PRESIDENT with the wonderfully suc• L.C. Keynes, BA. JP cessful 'Calvalcade' and a SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT very good ·result from K.T.Murphy the JUNIOR sale of poppies on VICE PRESIDENT Remembrance JL.Holman Day. Cer• STATE SECRETARY tainly a fitting ending for the JM. Geldart 'Australia Remembers' COMMITTEE year. J.R. Babbage, J. Brigden, Mrs B. H. Clinton, B.F.Coope r, JP, Sub-branches once more Mrs D.J. Dowson, MBE, M.C. Hall, JP, Mrs A. Keynes, must be congratulated for Dr A.J. King BSc,MBBS,FCCP,FRACMA,FACRM, their efforts on the sale of Z.T. Kwiecinski, BEe, AOM, MAIBS, K.B. Littlejohn, poppies with a gross total 166,;308. T.K. Lloyd, JP, B. McClenaghan, R.B. Mit ~20,525 chell, K.J. was made·available to supplement the Morrison AFSM, CD, W.J. Surridge, G. Tanner, F.G. Yerdi, Sailors', Soldiers' and Airmen's Relief Trust Fund. P. White, DCM Well done indeed. COUNTRY VICE PRESIDENT It is worthy of note that the focus of the League K.B. Liltlejohn during 1996 is to be on youth. This fits in well with COUNTRY REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENTS the aims of our State Governor and is an appropriate P. Blenkinsopp (North Wes't) follow-!Jp to the 'Calvalcade' where youth was very F. Sharp (Northern Wheat.belt) much in evidence. To this end on Saturday, 20 RM. Rathbone (North-Eastern Wheat.belt) January, the State President presented a banner to S. Russell (Central Wheat.belt) the WA Regional Cadets on behalf of the League. It ·K. Parish (Upper South-Western) was a well-attended event of considerable historic A.M. Coffey (Lower South-Western) relevance to both the Army Cadets of WA and the T. Morgan (Great Southern) WA branch of the League. This was the first of many Vacant (Lower Great Southern) actions which are proposed by the Executive to R. Hatch (Eastern Goldfields) demonstrate the relevance of the League to today's TRUSTEES youth. K. Broadhurst, FRAIA, ARIBA R.N. Stone, AM, JP It is vital to the very existence of the RSL that the L. Turner, MBE, JP young people of Australia are shown the League still has great significance in this country. We must ensure that we continue to enhance the legacy left for us so that it may be carried into the future by our successors. Anzac House JOCK GELDART OffJce Stafr ADMINISTRATION .. Calling all Vietnam Vets ••• State Secretary ...... jock Geldart The Vietnam Veterans' Trust can help if you are State Accountant ...... Roy Isaacmad financially stressed. Office Manager ...... Jacqueline Alien The monies are intended to help those veterans who Book Keeper ...... Robyn Rayner find themselves in necessitous circumstances and President's Secretary ...... Anne Sunderland are looking for a "hand-up, not a hand-out". Membership qerk ...... Sarah Terrington Assistance is normally in the form of a grant and Receptionist ...... Paula Nichols usually for payment of debts, medical, dental, orthodontic bills, necessary house or car rei>airs or REPATRIATION, WELFARE essential household items. The Committee consists AND COUNSEJ.IJNG of volunteers who are all Vietnam Vets, so feel We.Jfare ...... Patricia Row land JP reassured your case will be scrutinised and assessed -Welfare Assistance fairly by your peers. - Overseas Pensions For further information/application forms etc. -West Regional Secretary Australian Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen's Trust · Fund AVWVTltd Veterans Review Board .... PO BoxY3019 ...... Norm johnston Vietnam Veterans ...... East St Georges Terrace Margot Harness Perth -Australian Vietnam War Veterans Trust WA 6000 Education Assistance Telephone: (09) 2211159

Listening Post- Autumn 1996-Page 5 Commonwealth Department of VETERANS' AFFAms K . QTT GUNNING ABORIGINAL & TORRES YouR LAWYERS STRAIT ISLANDER VETERANS • • • The department of Veterans' Affairs is seeking

WE ARE PROUD OF OUR LONG your assistance with a project to identify Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander veterans. ASSOCIATION W IT H THE RSL AND

ARE PLEASED TO PROVI DE The project is being conducted throughout Australia and involves the identification MEMBERS A: and recognition of ATSIC veterans. FREE H ALF HOUR CONSULTATION. If you are (or you know ot) an Aboriginal or Disability and Special Rate Torres Strait Islander with military service, Pension Appeals you are invited to contact the department of Goran Galic Veterans' Affairs. Benefits may be available Allowance Appeals depending on eligibility. Goran Galic Phone 366 8500 (metropolitan area) or Probate and 1800 113304 (country). Deceased Estates David Miller

Conveyancing and Settlements Anne Hurley THE CLUB Enduring Powers of Attorney WITH A DIFFERENCE Anne Hurley ANZAC HOUSE Personal Injuries Tony Milne 28 ST GEORGES TERRACE PERTH Family Law (Opposite Government Nicholas Graham ' House)

Criminal Law Drinks below hotel prices Max Crispe Meals and snacks avallable WILLS AT SPECIAL RATES Financial league members are members of the club TELEPHONE: (09) 321 3755 Country m~mbers are • • • especially welcome Unit functions catered for KOIT GUNNING For further detaDs • • • BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS a NOTARIES contact Club Manager telephone (09) 325 9079 L EVEL 11 , AUSTRALIA PLACE, I 5 WILLIAM STREET PERTfl MEET YOU AT ANZAC CLUB

Page 6- Listening Post-Autumn 1996 A WMCC/Hospital Cars/Jeeps L~acy YAL RSL ASSEMBLv· AREAS W ards Band State Rei of Veterans · Executive ANZAC DAY 1996 * B Naval Association Exec I

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BN Perth BN BN BN Band Pier Street * E 2132 2/43 2/48 2/3 2/4 Band 25 1 Aust F 131nf Bde 29th Aust BN BN BN MGMG to be MG Para AJFGroup lnfBOE BN BN Advised Regt BN Group s * G Perth T H Concert Band Morley AAA Assn G SA Band 1 lnf BN - 1 AAA E Mil Pal 2 AAA Malaya 0 Ret Sisters Merdeka Vets R VAD/ Comb Dist Band G AAMWS 7AAR E AWAS SAS s WRAAC AATTV Red Cross RAASC T Land Army RAAOC c 2f7 FDAMB E 2/13 FDAMB ANZAC House I coc 1 orce Qollege,Pipes Units lrwln Street * J ouse K * PLC Pipe Police Band Youth & Citizens 39'ers Band Ex-'POW N~w Zealand BCOF BESA RN ASSN Korea · AM ASSN Vietnam WRENS Vets GUARDS South Perth Pipes RAACW 104 Bty AAA 1 Tpt PI RAASC -Bus Shelter, 16 St George's Tee AAEMEW Def Reserves *L M Kalamunda - Downtown Parmacy Army Res P&D Pipes Polish Pegasus Greek · Dunkirk Netherlands Normandy Vietnamese Burma Star Note *: Location of Marshals Nth American Vets... 1..------VIctoria Avenue Listening Post- Autumn 1996-Page 7 Your opportunUy to convert something gailurlng rust 41lll dust into ready CASH Ul improve your qualitJ oflife e.g. Ho/JdQys, Atrcondiltonlng JAPANESE SWORDS AUSTRALIAN WANTED Paying up to CITIZENSHIP $5000each - more for exceptional piece Welcome to our family PRIVATE COLLECTOR (Please DO NOT clean the blades: Any attempt will ruin them. There Is NO ONE qualified to do this Is Australia) ARE YOU AN Also wanted: Jap. arts e.g. Knives, Bronzes.

Please phone Dr. Chin AUSTRALIAN CITIZEN? (099) 21 5111, or (099) 21 5523 After Hours or 367 6332 (Perth) to leave your contact Tel. number. A special Australian Citizenship ceremony is planned for· (Arrangements can be made for viewing in Perth, and cost for genuine call will be refunded) RSL MEMBERS at ANZAC HOUSE .ININTI in the week before Anzac Day 1996 SOUVENIRS - CAFE 1/2km from·uluru (Ayers'Rock) at the If you are not yet an Australian citizen, why not apply newly-built Cultural Centre. NOW so you .can take part in this special eve,nt? Visit us and enjoy the view - for Central Australian gift lines, plus light meals and refreshments. Making an application for grant of Australian citizenship is EASY. Also, $1tuated within the Centre, Is an Aboriginal Interpretative display and Maruku Crafts for You can get an application kit by calling locally produced Aboriginal 131 880 artifact$. The-kit contains two application forms and an Information sheet. If you want to know more - or need help - we can visit your Sub-Branch or Unit Assqciation to NINTI STORE discuss Australian Citizenship and receive your AVERS ROCK, N.T. 0872 applications. Telephone: (089) 56 2214 Fax: (089) 56 2438 Just call Gerald Hitchcock on 261 2301 A.C.N. 052 247 873

Page 8-Listening Post- Autumn 1996 ·LOCAL REROES -.HONOURED

West Australian winners of the Victoria Cross and near the Whispering Wall which faces the State War the George Cross were honoured in a service in Kings Memorial in Kings Park. This is the first time all West Park on Australia Day. There are 15 West Australian Australian winners have been commemorated together servicemen who have received the Victorla Cross and the plaques are easily accessible by visitors to Kings including one from the Boer War and nine from service Park. in World War 1. These were awarded for action in On 26 January, His Excellency, Major General Gallipoli (one) and from the Western Front (eight). Michael Jeffery, AO, MC, dedicated the plaques in a During World War 11, individual Victoria Crosses were very colourful ceremony attended by more than 200 awarded for action in Syria, Egyp~. Western Desert, people. Many of those in the audience were wearing Borneo and over Germany. their medals which added to the colourful pageantry of The two George Crosses were awarded to members of the day. the Royal Australian Navy Volunteer Reserve for under• The Sub-Wardens provided a guard of honour in water bomb disarmament. front of the Governor while other members officiated with flag lowering and raising during the sounding of part of the Australia Remembers programme, As the Last Post. bronze plaques in the name of each winner were made reproduced at ~he end available. The plaques have been placed in a pathway Prior to his address, (which is of this article) the Governor laid a wreath on a shrouded State President's Message cont ... drum which was placed in front of .the Army Reserve Band. Chaplains from the three services provided the From Previous Page blessing of the memorial plaques and the Requiem was The argument runs: "The colours on our flag are out delivered by Colonel Rod Willox RFD EO (RL) who of line with our national colours, so we need a green · was also Master cif Ceremonies. and gold flag". As the haunting sounds of the Last Post and Reveille There will be some battle ahead, which has to be faded away, two RAAF training jets swooped low over supported with sound policies and logical arguments. the crowd and continued over Perth water in salute. We need the support of many more younger people The Deputy State Warden, Mr Ron Stone, recited the throughout the community if our historic flag is to fly Ode and the assembly sang the National Anthem. aloft and free over this great country as an enduring Mr Len Keynes, State President, thanked everyone symbol of unity and identity for all Australians. for attending and official guests then inspected the We must be ever vigilant- to destroy any nation you plaques. · start by destroying its symbols of heritage. We must Arrangements for the commemoration service were ensure our nation1s heritage is preserved and be proud made by the Department of Veterans' Affairs in con• to support our current symbols for the future of junction with Colonel Rod Willox and the RSL. Australian children. We must keep our Australian flag Support from the Wardens was invaluable to the success flying and .tell our politicians to keep their hands off of the day. · our symbols. I recall the words of Or H.V. Evatt in Family ·members of the Victoria Cross and George 1953: "Our flag, which is based on a Blue Ensign, is a Cross winners had been sought through an article in The beautiful flag. It is probably the most beautiful flag in West Australian newspaper ·and during the Department's the world". Never a truer word has been said. LEN KEYNES . • MORE OYER PAGE Lletenlng Poet- Autumn 1996-Page 9 Local Heroes Honoured oq~j. regular radio segment on 6PR. Many faMily members . came along on the day and were inte£Viewed by· the media. The service was a fitting tribute to the 'men who were honoured. · DRBBIE HILL, DVA Address by His Excellency Major General Michael )effery, AO MC Governor · ofWe5tem Australia Mr Len Keynes JP, State President of the Returned and Services League of Australia (WA Branch) , and Mrs Anne ny to continue the advance.. During an attack ·on a Keynes; Colonel Rod Willox RFD ED, representing the strong Gerq1an position in the early morning of 22 July Australia Remembers ~tare Executive,_and Mrs Lyn Willoxi 1942, the comparw to which Private Gurney belonged the right honourable Dr Petc Natr(lSs, the Lord Mayor of was held up by intense machine-gun fire from posts less Perth; other distinguished guests, ladies and gendemen . than 100 yards ahead, heavy casualties being inflicted May I read the citations of two Victoria Cross winners on our troops, all the officers being killed or wounded. and a George Cross winner: Grasping the seriousness of the situation and without Acting Wing Commander Hughie Idwal Edwards, hesitation, Private Gurney charged the nearest enemy VC, KCMG, CB, DSO, OBE, DFC, 105 Squadron, machine-gun post, bayoneted three men and silenced Royal Air Force, 4 July 1941, in a raid on Brernen, the post. He then continued on to a second post, bayo• Germany: neted two men ~d sent out a third as a prisoner. At this Citation: Wing Commander Edwards, although stage a stick of grenades was thrown at Private Gurney handicapped by a physical disability resulting from a fly• which knocked him to the ground. He rose again, ing accident, has repeatedly displayed gallantry of the . picked up his rifle and charged the third post using the highest order in pressing home bo'mbing attacks from bayonet with great vigour. He then disappeared from very low heights against strongly defended objectives. view and later his body was.found in an enemy post. By On 4 July 1941, he had an important attack on the port this single~handed act of gallantry in the face of a deter• of Bremen, one of the most heavily defended towns on mined enemy, Private Gurney enabled his company to Germany. His attack had to be made in daylight and press forward to its objective, inflicting heavy losses there were no clouds to afford concealment. upon the enemy. The successful outco~e of this engage• During the approach to the German coast several ment was almost entirely due to Private Gurney's hero• enemy ships were sighted and Wing Commander ism at the moment when it was needed. (London Edwards knew that his aircraft would be reported and Gazette: 11 September 1942.) that the defences would be in a state of readiness. Lieutenant~Commander Leon Verdi Goldsworthy, Undaunted by this misfortune, he brought his formation GC, GM, DSC, RANVR. 50 miles overland to the target, flying at the height of a Cita~on: ~ or skill and courage of a high order during little q1ore than 50 feet, passing under high-tension a series of mine recoveries extending from 12 June cables, carrying away telegraph wires and finally passing 1943 to 10 April 1~44, which led to the recovery of through a formidable balloon barrage. four German ground mines, thre,e magne~ic mines and In reaching Bremen he was met with a hail of fire, all one acoustic· mine. (London· Gazette: 19 September of his aircraft being hit and four of them being 1944.) . . . destroyed. Nevertheless he made a most successful Physically, Goldsworthy was small and light, but he attack, and then with the greatest of skill and coolness had a tough and wiry body which had been strength• he withdrew the surviving aircraft without further loss. ened by wrestling and gyrrfnastics. He tried to enlist in Throughout the execution of this operation, which the RAN, but hi~ small si:atiJ!'e caused him to be reject• he had planned personally with· full knowledge of the ed ~nitially . Later he·was asked by the Navy to reapply. risks entailed, Wing Commander Edwards displayed the Thts he dtd, and on 24 March 1941 he was appointed highest standard of gallantry and determination. to the RANVR with the rank of Sub-Lieutenant. Private Arthur Stanley Gurney, VC, 2/48th About two months late! he anived in England and . rendedng~mines­ Australian Infantry Battalion, AIF, 22 July 1942 at ultimately became a. member of the Tel El Eisa. Egypt (Posthumous Award). safe section of HMS Vemon. Citation; For gallantry and unselfish bravery in Goldsworthy had already received training in elec· tricity and physics in his civilian days. This was ~ invalu· silencing enemy machine-gun posts by bayonet assault ~ cdmp~icated at Tel El Eisa on 22 July 1942, thus allowing his compa· able to him his new dreer among the . . P1ge10-Ll1tenlng Pott-Autumn 1996 • MORE Ov!R·PAQE Local Heroes Honoured - The Governor's Address cont. me~hanisms of German mines and booby-traps in a theless. maze of kno~n and unknown dangers that seldom gave But it got me thinking as to what makes a man do second chances. such things? His first decoration, the George Medal, was gained Sometimes it may be a reflex action, done .without (London 'Gazette: 18 April 1944) for "gallantry and thought for the consequences, an immediate act of undaunted devotion to duty in rendering enemy mines intense bravery. At other times, it results from a man safe". This work involved the removal of a mine from deciding that something has to be done. The company the coal barge wharf at Southhampton, where it had is tied down and taking heavy casualties, it can't move lain for over two years. He worked in the operation forward or back. The officers are dead and there is· no with Lieutenant-Commander G J Cliff, GM (BAR), obvious leadership and something has to be done. So MBE. A similar oi>eration was successfully carried out in brave Private Gurney does just that and takes out his the River Thames by Goldsworthy and Sub-Lieutentant bayonet and crosses 100 yards of fire-swept battleground K 1 Birkett. The dates specified for these acts were 17 and destroys singlehandedly three enemy machine-gun September and 7 October 1943. nests, losing his own life in the process. The company Goldsworthy was mentioned in dispatches in August then continues the attack. 1944, for "great courage and undaunted devotion to Or it might be the consequences of a series of deliber• duty", and the following month he received the George ate acts of protracted bravery; perhaps the hardest of the Cross in recognition of his work in the series of opera• whole lot because, after each act, the reservoir of tions mentioned in the citation. human courage is reduced by a certain amount. - On 13 August 1943 he made safe a German ground• And in this situation we see those two outstanding mine under water off Sheerness. On that occasion he Western Australian war heroes, Hughie Edwards and used the special diving suit which one of his colleagues Leon Goldsworthy. had helped to develop. It was only the second occasion The Victoria Cross and George Cross represent such a weapon had been rendered safe under water. And supreme battlefield and war zone courage of superhu• the work was regarded as being particu~arly hazardous, man quality. Courage that inspires men, and indeed for the diver had no means of escape should the fuse nations, for all time. Courage that becomes a corner• operate. stone of regimental, squadron or naval history; courage Goldsworthy dealt, on 10 April 1944, with an espe• that inspires those who follow scores of years later to cially dangerous acoustic type of mine near Milford never let the side down; it is in a word "inspirational". Haven. The mine had been laid two and half years ear• These 17 Victoria Cross and George Cross winners, lier. Again using the special diving suit, Goldsworthy whose names are now consecrated in this lovely venue successfully removed the fuse and primer and later of our State Memorial, not only inspired their fellow removed the mine intact. Other incidents underlying comrades in arms and generations of servicemen and Goldsworthy's George Cross included rendering safe a · women but, because of this appropriate location of the mine near Weymouth on 12 June 1943 and another at plaques, will inspire I am sure the scores of thousands West Hartlepool on an unspecified date. who visit this memorial every year. A distinguished Service Cross ·was awarded to And I would like to think that their courage and Goldsworthy in January 1945, for "gallantry and distin• their personal sacrifice in many cases will give young gUished service in mine clearance". This was for strip• people in particular, food for thought. First they will ping, in fifty feet of water at Cherbourg, the first note with awe the outstanding bravery, then perhaps German "K" type mine, when the harbour was hurriedly the giving of self for the greater good, and from soch being cleared for Allied use during the invasion.of examples our youngsters will determine to show courage Europe. themselves, not necessarily of course in war, but in life. In 1971 in Vietnam my company was advancing That CO!Jrage may be of two kinds: physical and moral, through heavy bamboo when we came under fire from of which the latter in some ways is harder to carry out the rear. At the same time the forward scout of my lead than the former. platoon trod on a "jumping jack" M16 mine w~ich But inspire us, these plaques will, and I conclude by exploded in mid-air removing his legs and those of the congratulating the Au5tralian Remembers Council apd second scout and badly wounding the platoon comman• the RSL for their forethought in bringing this noble der in the shoulder and face. idea to such outstanding fruition. Without second thought, my batman, a quiet, small To those family and friends of our Victoria Cross and and totally unassuming person, raced forward to the George Cross winners, I hope you feel very proud in the casualties, crossing what was an unmarked anti-person• knowledge that what your relations achieved in battle, nel minefield, removed the bootlaces from his boots and in defence of this nation, has now been so fittingly tied tourniquets to the thigh stumps of both wounded recognised. scouts, thus saving their lives. just one of the many inci• It no_wgives me truly great pleasure to dedicate the dents in action and no way comparable with the cita• memorial plaques of our 17 Western Australian Victoria tions I have just read; but a personal experience never- Cross and George Cross winners. Listening Post- Autumn 1996 - Page 11 WEST.AUSTRALIAN BATTALION · ·CELEBRATES 80 YEARS In 1935 a group of prominent Perth citizens of from there was posted to New Britain and New Guinea Scottish ancestry evolved the idea offorming a Scottish until its disbandment in January 1946. Were this not reglment in Western Australia. The number 16 was enough to enshrine itself forever in the history of WA, allocated by Army HQ together with the title, 'The the unit was re-activated in 1948 .as a Citizen Military Cameron Highlanders of Western Australia'. This title Force Unit, firstly as the 16/28 Bn (The Cameron was consented to, and supported' by, the late King Highlanders of WA) and subsequently, in 1962, as 16th George V, Maj-Gen Cameron, Scottish Command UK, Bn (The Cameron Highlanders ofWA). As such it con• an~ the parent regiment, The Queen's Own Cameron tinued in service until 1960 when, with the ll/44th Bn Highlanders whose HQ were in Inverness, Scotland. and 28th Bn, it became part of the 1st Battalion.The The historical background dates back to the 16th Bn, Royal Western Australia Regiment. That situation per• AIF, formed in September 1914 ~d, post-war, parts of tained until1965, when a further reorganisation created the 88th (Perth) Infantry and 86th Infantry. The WA two Battalions with the 16th becoming part of the 1st Rifles were re-designated the 2nd Bn 16th Infantry Bn, retaining its pipes and drums and also B Coy (The ·Regiment. Further changes in 1921 saw the 16th trans• Cameron Coy). In 1966, a further reorganisation saw ferred to the Citizen Force Infantry which became the the renaming of the 1st Bn, The Royal Western 16th Bn, (the Goldfields Regt). In 1926 the unit was Australia Regiment as the 16th Battalion, The Royal allied with the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regt, Western Australia Regiment, but unfortunately the (the 16th of Foot) of the British Army. Due to a down• pipes and drums were lost in 1968, when the Band was turn in recruiting, the 16th disappeared from the Order re-designated 'Western Command CMF Pipes and of Battle but remained as an entity b:y its linking, in Drums'. 1930, with 11th Bn, (the Perth Regt}, the new unit Through the many changes in title and role over the becoming the 11/16th Bn. past 60 years, the spirit of thel6th Battalion has sur• In 1936 the unit re-emerged as the 16th as previously vived and the present day Battalion as part of the13th stated, and was the result of the efforts of WA Highland Infantry Brigade carries on the proud traditions of its Regiment Assn, the Body formed in 1935 to have the forebears. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the rais· Battalion raised. Initial recruits, as a condition of enrol• ing of the Battalion, a wreath-laying ceremony is to be ment, paid two pounds per head to the Association conducted at the State War Memorial on Sunday, 26 towards the cost of providing Highland uniform. In May 1996 at 11:00am. addition, with the able support of leading Perth busi• JOHNTREWAR nessmen of Scottish ancestry, a campaign was initiated to obtain donations from prominent business houses in Perth. A number of these responded with. cash dona• ERRATUM tions, which fostered the formation of the emerg4"tg Amendment 1994 State Congress Minutes unit. The subsequent three years, to September 1939, An error has been noted in the Minutes of the saw the 16th training 1994 State Congress and the Autumn 1995 edition its members, mainly at annual ofT~ camps held on Rottnest Island, its battle station. Ustening Post. In both the Minutes and the magazine, .the last At the outbreak of war in September 1939, the 16th, line of the Item after 'State Secretary' delete 'and' insert along with other militia units, was called out for 'or'. The Agenda Item ful• should then read as follows:. ··. time duty and continuous training. The formation of CONSTITUTION the 2nd AIF for overseas service saw the re-formation of Item 3. Delete the present wording of old units with a '2' prefix, State the 2/16th being one such Rule 14.8.5 and substitute the following: . Battalion. The 16th remained in service as an AMP To cause the Common Seal of the State Branch Unit, but provided from its ranks officers and men to to be affixed to an intrument by resolution of the create the 2/llth, 2/16th and 2/28th Battalions . Whilst State Executive • every instrument to which the the5e latter-mentioned units went overseas, the 16th Common Seal is affixoo shall be signed by a mem• (the Cameron Highlanders of WA), became an active ber of the State Executive and shall be counter part of the force formed for the defence of WA, serving signed by another member thereof, the in locations ranging from the Murray State River in .the south· Secretary or by one of the State Branch Trustees. to Dandaragan in the north. CARRIED at SC (State Executive/Rockinaham) ln September 1942, owing to the fact that the men of Please ensure all· copies of the Minutes of the the 16th volunteered en masse for overseas service, the ?Bt~ ~nual Congress are amended accordingly, unit was re-designated the- 16th Australian Infantry mcludmg Rules and Standing Orders of the WA Battalion (AIF). As such, it was posted to, and served in Branch One). the defence of, Darwin during the Japanese attacks and J Geldart, State Secretary Page 12-Llatenlng Poat- Autumn 1996 From the NQ.t1onal Pres1dent: DO YOU.KNOW THIS MAN'? The lett ~r printed_below was teceived by the State dearly love to meet again. President, Mr Len Keynes , from the National President, The period of contact with the man was about i7 or Maj Gen W B (Digger) lames. 28 May, 1944 while Hortense was being held at St Any person who has information which may assist in Gilles military prison in Brussels, Belgium. She was in locating the serviceman referred to by Mme Hortense isolation and made contact, per medium of a broken Damon-Clews should contact the National President at the mirror and employing amateur morse code, with an foUowing address: · inmate of an adjoining cell. With the aid of the mirror GPO Box 303, Canberra ACT 260 I and hand signals, they wer.e able to communicate in a 1el: (06) 248 7199 Fax: (06) 247 7637 very simple way. She learnt from him that there was 'to be a parachute landing in about 15 days'. She had no I s'eek your assistance in trying to locate a person who other contact with him until about nine days later .may still be alive and who served in the most extraordi• when, at a parade of prisoner inmates, her 'friend' was nary circumstances in World War 11. The following amongst a group being paraded before the prison story will indicate the nature of the inquiry. authorities. She noticed the following features about The story begins with a young Belgian girl aged 16 him. who, with her family, was working as a Belgian resis• Firstly, he was a tall man. He appeared to have an tance fighter ·and, in particular, helping shot-down injured leg as he had some difficulty in walking. He was Allied fliers back to Britain and to safety. I refer to Mme dressed in military clothes of khaki, and wore a brown Hortense Damon-Clews, of whom the book 'Child of or tan jacket with a white fur-lined neck. Hortense War' by Mark Bles was published some years ago by wanted to tell this man she was about to be ·sent to Hodder and Stoughton. The book outlines in great Germany. In trying to do so, by making signs, she was detail the war experiences of this lady. dealt with by the prison authorities by being thrown In summary, Hortense, at a very young age with into isolation and given a diet of bread and water for a mother and brothers, was involved in helping shot further seven days. That is her only description. down Allied airmen return to Britain. The family con• It seems to me that the person Hortense would like to ducted these very brave and dangerous activities for sev- meet may well have been a member of the Air Force, . era! years, but subsequently were captured by the noting the fur-lined jacket he wore. Which meant he Germans. This young girl was placed in Ravensbrook could be United States Army Air Corps, the RAF, the concentration camp. After dreadful torture, including RCAF, RNZAF or RAAR the injection of gas gangrene organisms a.s tests to pro• This is a strange story, and one I think' that conjures duce sterility, and other dreadful indignities, she was up the feelings of wanting to help this marvellous lady then condemned to death. By miraculous means she who, I would best describe as a charming lady and one survived and after the war met and married an who would be the epitome of what one would see in Englishman and migrated in 1946 to the United one's mother. Kingdom; where she still lives. 1 (f you are this man, or know someone who could be, Hearing of this story, a colleague of mine arranged to please contact me so I can pass the information on to have Hortense brought out to Australia on a recent Hortense. · visi.t, and I had the good fortune to escort her to see W B (Digger) JAMES many of the mementoes of World War li that we have in the Australian War Memorial. In addition, she was honoured by the Belgian Ambassador in Canberra, by S.UBSCRIPTI();NS TO the Governor of NSW, and by the ex-service commu- nity during her visit here. . THE ·LISTENING POST Following her ~isit to Canberra I asked her if she had The Listening Po$t is available on any regrets, or if there was anyone she would like to pri~ate sq.bscriptlon at $10 per year meet from her days spent in prison. She described how, at her lowest ebb and in agony from pain, having been (4 copies) ,including postage. condemned to death in a prison in Brussels, she was Delivery can be arranged by writing to: able to communicate with a serviceman, although she The State Secretary never spoke to him or found out what. his name or what ... Returned and Services League service he was in. She could provtde only sketchy PO BoxY302~ details (remember, she was at death's door at th~ time, having been starved, bea.te~ and tortured merctlessly.) St Georges Terrace East but following is her descnptton of the person she would Listening Post- Autumn 1996-Page 13 Mr Broce Ruxton Deputy-National President RSL Lek, MrJohn Burridge State President Perth Legacy Centre and Mr Len Keynes State President RSL lWA Branch] at the Legacy luncheon in November.

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2.00pm to 4.30pm DANCE TO THE MUSIC Or JjESTET<.t(EAT<. by . MUSIC/ANS Or Jjli5Tf.T<. Jjt:A 1<. Master of Ceremonies MIKE HALL (Ex M.C. ANZAC House Dances) ALL RSL AND CLUB MEMBERS AND GUESTS WELCOME ADMISSION FREE FOR }\URTHER INFORMATION PHONE 325 9079 . . Page 14-Llatenlng Post- Autumn 1996 ''GOODBYE TO ALL THAT'' From Moresby Army News Sheet Vol. .1. No. 26, 19411 How many of us here now remember the "dog days" mountains, or out on patrol in the distant jungle. Also of th~ early months of this year when the news world those manning guns and searchlights, always on duty, insistently and to our annoyance, referred to Moresby as the men down at the wharf unloading a freighter. I the "Tobruk of the Pacific"? Some of us find no pleasure thought of the fighter P.ilots snatching sleep while they in 'looldng back upon those days, and especially those could. And I too, thought of home, thousands of miles nights, when we gathered together, a disconsol~te ~ittle aweiy. · • ' ! · · · group; to listen with apprehension to the ABC news. This mountainous tract of jungle called Sometimes for diversion we tuned in to Radio Papua was no Tokyo, place for war. It was a place for laughing and diversion we invariably got - especially when natives and the one soft rhythmic beat of drums and night'We listened to a graphic account of the the slap of tropic seas march of against the hull of some white-painted Nippon feet and the rattle of Nippon guns trading schooner. in the streets Yet-here were thous~ds of Moresby town itself. We heard, too, of the havoc of Australian youngsters, shoul• dering rifles, fighting, played by Japanese aircraft amongst our fighters patrolling, digging in the hard - the clay, manning ."To-morrow-hawks" that were_not yet here. They were guns and searchlights, lumping boxes of ammunition melancholy months of mosquitoes, rain and mud, and cases of stores. And all of them think• and ing of · an occasional night of mental malaise, dangerously close homes in mainland suburbs or in the tranquil to despair. country, of picture theatres and pretty girls '(because girls must be pretty when "The Mice of Moresby" , Radio Tokyo called us you're in Papua), and crowded pavements because we spent all of our time, they said , in our flunk ... One night holes, like our Aussie Brothers, the "Rats of Tobruk". in Mores by? ... of hundreds of nights in (That night a certain old-soldier Major is reported to Moresby. have turned the radio off because there were those pre• The theme is approached from another angle in the sent who would have smashed it in a vain effort to verses "The Mice of Moresby'' , in which the poetical silence the innuendo insults of the English-speaking "Pinto" wrote of the same dog-days, not of scurrying Jap. - and of his female offsider who used her English so hole seekers, but as "fighting mice", gnawing and nib• well in her hate of Aussies.) bling our way to Nippon. So here's to ourselves, the It was in the depth of a despondent dog-night that gnawing, nibbling, fighting, massing "Mice ofMoresby" . there was a voice in the darkness: "I heard a couple of blokes were wounded in yesterday's raid. Ack-ack gun• MICE OF MORESBY by "Pinto". ners, I believe they were". · Rats of old "Tobruk". "Yeah. I heard about it. Bad luck. Still we h~ven't Or merely Moresby mice, much to grumble about. The Japs ate the greatest mak• We've had our ers of holes fiU of fighting, in the ground I've ever seen. When you And of hardships, once or twice. consider the hundreds of bombs they've dropped, doesn We have hugged the earth for cover, t it strike you as amazing that we've had next to With the bombers no casualties?" overhead. We have seen

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. THE ENEMY The Japanese learned to respect the accuracy of been subjected to terrific strain. Australia's Beauforts - and with good reason developed Toward the end of January 1943, a Bea.... ufort, a hatred for No 7 Squadron. patrolling the western approaches to Horn Island, sight• The aircraft of No 7 with the large letters "KT' on ed a message written on the beach: "South-west bomber the fuselages play~d havoc with the enemy on land and ship crew 25 miles". Later, 10 men were seen on the sea and ·built up a record of which its air and ground beach, some being naked. Another message read: "No ·crews were justly proud. food", whereupon issue rations were dropped. Later it • Allied convoys wending their way from Thursday was learnt that the ship was the Patcam from Darwin. Island to Darwin enjoyed a peaceful voyage, through the Fig Off Hopton, on. l8 June, sighted a Navy Type 0 tireless efforts of this squadron guarding the sea lanes. reconnaissance floarplane, which he attacked from 200 "'The work of Number Seven in New Guinea earned yards. Immediately the mainplane caught fire. With the the gratitude of the Army, with a typical message read• second burst, the enemy crashed into the sea. ing: "Excellent st.rike - feature taken with little opposi• A week later, Wg Cdr K R Parsons, in similar circum• tion." stances, intercepted another Jake and a dog fight-ensued No 7 Squadron formed at Laverton on 27 June 1940, for 20 minutes. It too escaped, but in a damaged condi• but during the first 18 months the squadron was practi• tion. cally reduced to nucleus. A mere handful of airmen Five days later, on a similar patrol, Fig Off Legge were officially squadron personnel, operating with No 2 sighted another, six miles away. After two attacks, the Squadron for employment and experience. jake ditched into the sea with smoke belching from its Number Seven was activated at Laverton on 7 port wing. It was finally destroyed by gunfire. January 1942, its immediate role being operational Early in November, again near Horn Island, Flt Lt training. The first operational flights consisted of a Cox attacked a further Jake, which crashed into flames series of anti-submarine and convoy patrols as well as into the sea, exploding on impact. In this case, there training exercises. was no return fire from the enemy. During May, the squadron moved to Baimsdale with Number Seven was briefed for its first bombing a detached flight at Mallacoota. attacks on 27 November, when five Beauforts set out to On 4 June 1942, while on convoy patrol near Gabo bomb the Timoeka area. The element of surprise was Island, Fit Lt Williams saw the "Iron Crown" explode achieved, only light inaccurate fire being experienced. before his eyes. Later a submarine surfaced some dis• Early in December two aircraft were detailed to locate tance from the scene. Flt Lt Williams dived to the a missing YHCTC in the vicinity of Turtle Island. They attack, damaging the craft which crash dived. found eight aboard a dinghy with seven clinging to its sides. Another dinghy was dropped. Later During June, its OTU role ceased and the squadron• rescue launches landed the survivors at Horn Island. formed. By August, it moved to Nowra to convert from Hudsons to Beauforts. In October, Number Seven was based· at Ross River and became a Ri.o~~4·~ 'tul!f .-':lr~~ bomber reconnaissance squadron. On 15 December, Flg Off Whtshaw sighted a submarine in ...... -. the Gulf of Carpenteria. He released his bombs 100 feet ahead of the craft now at periscope depth. Intelligence stat• ed that some damage was inflict• ed and the submarine would

ON STRIKE: A familiar sight in the New Quinea skies, the Japanese learned to dread the Beauforts. This picture shows bombs from another aircraft bursting on enemy positions. Listening Post- Autumn 1996-Page 17 Beauf~rts of Sevea: : ~Iasted the En~my ... coiit~ - -· 1t ,: I • •' • ·• • Throughout lan.uary 1944 there were freqllent -sight• 23 5,000 lbs of equipment and 114 personnel. ings of enemy atrcraft. but little eventuated to.'enliven Operations were recommenced on 3 Nove!Dber when the normal routine of squadron life. nine Beauforts bombed targets of opportunity between On 22 February, a ..fl~ght of Beauforts staged through Niap and Wewak. Merauke to raid Ttrr)oeka. Results were difficult to aSiess Three days later transpor:t and road communicatis>ns due to heavy tropical growth. · · were blasted at the west end of but strip, where trciO:s· Toward the end of the month the squadron moved to port submarines were known to be unload_ing. Higgins Field. Incidently, this attack coincided with the initial o{fen• . Ttmoeka was still Number Seven's main preoccupa• sive of the Sixth Division. I tion throughout 1Q44. On 6 May this target was To rescue ditched Americans, Beauforts of Number attacked in force. The daylight attack was timed·to pre· Seven co-operated with other squadrons in distracting cede a night attack by Catalinas in the same area. Japanese attention, while a Gatalina landed on ·the sea While escorting HMAS Invernal on 13 June Flt Sgt under enemy gun positions. This carefully planned Keats and crew mysteriously disappeared. An orange operation was so perfectly co-ordinated and executed flash was seen, followed by a dull thud. When the posi· that not one shot interfered with the rescue. · tion was closed, all that remained on the surface was a December saw the squadron settle into ~he routine large patch of oil, numerous pieces of debris and a sub· but satisfying work of providing maximum ser-Viceability mer2ed rubber dinghy. of aircraft and efficient crews to carry out strikes and reconnaissances in the Wewak area and the numerous occupied villages inland from the Torricelli Mountains. ·January 1945 wrtnessed an increase rn: Number Seven1s operational effort. There were 245 sorties flown in 468 hours, when 325,530 lbs of bombs were dropped and 148,24_7rounds expended. Army personnel were quite confident to remain within 200 yards of the bombing, since such' accuracy had been obtained, though they resented being covered with dust. By sheer concentration of accurate, heavy bombing attacks, Nambut Hill, a ridge in the Torricelli Mountains, which had proved a considerable obstacle to the AIF advance, was reduced by 18 Februaiy. By the end of April a succession of victories by the AIF resulted in the capture of Maprik, But, Dagua, : Kin a, a native, piclln'ed here with W g Cdr Karawop, Boiken Plantation and Hawain and the Sixth Barton and crew, flew on ops ar.d acted a.s a front gunner. He directed Division had carried all before it tef a point 13 miles the attack in pdgin English. from Wewak, the major objective. The Bea4forts car• Further reconnaissance flights and· raids were carried ried out "softening-up" attacks along the coast well in advance out against the now familiar target during June and July, of the troops. culminating with a final strike by six Beauforts against f}t Keauka on August 3. v Off to New Guinea From August to November 1944 the squadron was unoperational pending its transfer to No 71 Wing in New Guinea. The movement by air was uniq~e in the history of the RAAF, as Number Seven was probably the first squadron to be movec;l entir.ely by ~ircraft . Ten C47s from No 34 SquadiQn, Parafield, no 35 Squadron, Guildford, and No 36 Squadron, Townsville, transport· ed the main body and equipment. . . On six days between 21 and 26 October, 47 flights AIRMEN'S QUARTERS: TIW photograph, taken in March , 1945, were made between _Higgins Field and Tadji, carrying shows s~ of thltents which housed the airmen of No. 7 Sqn. Note the front "gardens •. Page 18-Listening Post- Autumn 1996 Beaufort& of Seven... cont On 22 April Number Seven took part in a very sue~ THE BATTLE FOB cessful mission, when the headquarters of the Japanese Major~General Miyake was devastated. FREEDOM .ART · Early in May Number Seven was engaged with the reduction of Wewak. So successful was the Army sup~ P.Ptt and the tactical reconnaissance work of the RAAF EXHmiTION squadrons that the Wewak campaign was regarded as an outstanding example ofArmy~ Air co~peration. 1995 was a momentous year full of recalling buried memories of many kinds. The older generation reflected The attacks on 9 May 1945 were panicularly vicious. · on living through wartime ~ the young t~wught of the The target was the narrow neck of Wewak Peninsula. relatives they never met or those who suffered for the All aircraft hit the target, a narrow line of natural rest of their lives. It was definitely a positive time defence positions at its narrowest point. remembering recent history and many stories may have During May, Kina, a native, arrived at Altape. He been lost forever if the Australia Remembers pro~ had escaped with his family from Muschu Island. At gramme had not occurred. ~ first he cruised off the island in a naval vessel, directing We ·had a tremendous opportunity at the various fire on targets unknown to the authorities. venues in Perth, Boulder and Geraldton to speak to Later, on 28 May, he acted as front gunner of a No 7 people about the importance of remembering our Squadrof1 'Beaufort, while he directed the attack in pid~ nation's sacrifice and wish to thank all those who sup~ gin English and strafed targets not hitheno attacked. poned us in our effort to depict something of dle story of the 1939~45 conflict. The most notable event for the month of June was Many coun~ the fight for Mt Tazaki and Mt Shiborangu, which dom~ people expressed their concern about our try's present situation inated the entire sector. Each morning the request of and were obviously worried about their children's future. They were also keen to see the the AIF were met as they battled up the tim~ heavily exhibition bered somehow made permanently available for slopes. Mt Tazaki fell on the 22nd and Shiborangu public viewing. a few days later. Our paintings were appreciated by about 5,000 people Number Seven's last strike of the war was flown on and we received tremendous comments such as: the morning of 15 August 1945, just before the news of "Your paintings compare with the official war anists the Japanese surrender was received. Kairivu was who were present during the events of World War 11. attacked and strafed by 12 Beauforts. Well Done!"~ Ex~Australian War Memorial staff mem~ Travel, ferry and courier flights. occupied the her now with SASR Ladies Auxiliary. squadron during the next few months. On 19 December "The paintings in this exhibition are unique in that 1945, after all aircraft had been flown to the mainland) many featur·e Western Australian battalions." ~ Sir Number Seven officia,lly disbanded at Tadj i. Charles Coun. (Contributed by W. Thomas, Officer~in~Charge, "Fantastic research and record of an important part of RAAF Historicat Section.) Australian history. Should be made available to all the public at any time." Counesy: RAAF News "The government should take the paintings over and put them on permanent display." REMEMBRANCE DAY "Your poems are very moving, in fact there is so much LUNCHEON in the whole exhibition to absorb. I'll be back." "Next time I come, I'll bring my children ~ they must The special committee of the see this." Once again thank yo~ aH. Returned Ex-Servicewmpen's BEVERLEY LUNT and 'LAY EVANS, Artists Sub-Branch will hold a Remembrance Day Lunch at ~e Fremantle Sailing Club on Monday, 11 November 1996.

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Page 22 -Listening Poet- Autumn 1996 FURTHER EVIDENCE OF NAVAL ·BUILD· UP IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA . The arrival of a third guided,missile frigate for home, three diinentional tracking range offshore, the state,of, parting in WA on January 15 further strengthens the the art Submarine Training and Systems Centre, the Navy in Western Australia in line with the Federal helicopter support facility, new facilities for naval per, Government's Two Ocean Navy policy. sonnel and their families and the Training Centre West HMAS Canberra , commanded by Commander Matt are some of these additions. Tripovich, CSC, RAN, joins her sister ships Adelaide "The Navy capability in WA is impressive by any and Darwin at HMAS Stirling which is also known as yardstick and, apart from its obvious contribution to Fleet base West. Australia's security, also contributes some $lOOm annu, Led in by the Naval tug Tammar with her water can, ally into the local economy." non throwing arcs of water in the air, the 4000 tonne "With 59me 2500 naval personnel at present based in HMAS Canberra carries a complement of 205 officers the west, the RAN is now•the largest permanent force and sailors. The ship was greeted by Fleet base West of the three arms of the Australian Defence Force in staff, the WA Naval Band, families and friends and WA. VIC JEFFERY, Naval Public Affairs Officer (WA) survivors from the first HMAS Canberra lost at the Battle of Savo Island in 1942. I· SEE PICTURE OVER PAGE I The Commanding Officer of HMAS Stirling ,Commodore Bob Trotter said: "The arrival of this . front, line warship will boost the number of ships and submarines based at Garden Island to 11 major units including the three : guided,missile frigates, two destroyer escorts, two patrol boats, two submarines (one a training platform), underway replenish, ment ship and a hydrographic sur, · vey ship. "Collins, the first of the N avy's new class of submarines is due to arrive mid,year for homeporting and will be ,followed by her five sister submarines as they enter ser, vice over the next four years. 1997 will see the arrival of Anzac, t~e Hrst of the Navy's eight new patrol frigates in WA. She will be fol, !owed by three sister ships. Commodore Trotter further stated: "Facilities and infrastruc, ture at Fleet base West (HMASStirling) will continue to be expanded significantly to cater for the increase in the number of technically advanced ships home, parted here. "Indeed the past couple of years have seen some $175m of new facilities come on line , capabilities such as the magnificent -new fleet . pier specially designed to accom, modate Collins·dass submarines, a Listening Post- Autumn 1996-Page 23 Sumoors of the original HMAS Canberra were present to greet the present day guided,missile frigate ..JUch carries this proud name. Canberra's Commanding Officer, Commander Matt Tripovich is pictured with (/eft to right) : Errtie Rudlarui, Matt Strang, Syd Wortlehock, Arthur Carter (Secretary of the Canberra/Shropshire Assoc.), Martin Faulkner, Keith Nordohl (President of the Canberra/Shropshire Assoc.). The Passing Parade

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Page. 24-Listening Post- Autumn 1996 Private James Patrick Broderick ·ANZAC FoUowing is an edited version of a diary which recently came into my possession. It has been edited only to delete entries I considered to be of little or no interest to readers. The diary was compiled by Private]ames Patrick Broderick, Regimental Number 827, "F" Company, 1st Infantry Brigade, AIF, and gives a first hand account of the everyday experiences of the young World War 1 diggers from the time of their depar, ture from Australia on 20 October 1914, through their preparation in Egypt for war and ends with a description of the spirit in which the original Am:acs approached what was to be a dreadful bloodbath called the Gallipoli UJ.nding. It is a true and poignant story. 1914 Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Western AUGUST 30th. Joined "F" Company, 4th Battalion, Australia and Tasmania plus the New· Zealanders, and 1st Infantry Brigade, First Australian Imperial the troopships travelled in rows of three abreast. Expeditionary Force at the Randwick Racecourse. 3rd NOVEMBER. The West Australian Division Nothing of much interest happened up till date of joined us off Fremantle, the SS Medic and another ves, embarkation except imincident in Centennial Park one sel being their transports. night when seven men in our Battalion were knocked 5th NOVEMBER. First death on board. Private Kello down while we were carrying out a night attack. died of pneumonia. His kit and equipment were put up 19th OCTOBER. Embarked on troopship Euripides for auction and realised about 70 pounds which ·was sent in Sydney Harbour at midday. We came down to home to his mother and sister. Circular Quay in a tram from Kensington, the 3rd 8th NOVEMBER. The SS Osterly passed us at dusk. Battalion going first. She was bound for England and came quite close to us There were great crowds along the route and I saw on the starboard side so we all lined up and cheered her some soul-stirring scenes as brothers and pals shouted to as she went by. We also sang "It's a long way to each other while the tram was racing along. Mothers, Tipperary". sisters and sweethearts were also there to witness the 9th NOVEMBER. Saw big schools of porpoises off departure of sons and loved ones. the port side. The Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney The Euripides is an Aberdeen White Star Liner of disappeared from her position on the port horizon at 15000 tons displacement. We had 2460 troops on board 6am heading south and we were all speculating as to the and during the afternoon many ferries came out and cir• reason for her sudden change of direction. At lOam a cled around our ship as she lay at her moorings in the big Japanese warship steamed around in front and took harbour. We joined in with the people on the ferries and up the position vacated by the Sydney . other boats and sang "It's a long way.to Tipperary". At 10.30am, while we were all on parade, the bugle 20th OCTOBER. We left Sydney Harbour at 6am in blew the call for all Officers to fall-in at the double in the morning. Th~ Africa went out through the Heads the orderly room. The Officers returned in about five first, followed by the Star of Victoria and the Argyleshire. minutes and informed us that the Sydney was engaging Next came the Clan MacCougodale and the Euripides the Emden , about 80 miles away, off the Cocos Islands. followed in tl\e rear. Nothing of interest happened until At lunch we received the radio message that the Emden we reached Albany. was "beached and done for" an4 the Sydney was pursu, 26th OCTOBER. We arrived in Albany at 12 noon ing her collier. and anchored alongside the Orvi'eto , an Orient liner of The Emden lost 200 killed and 40 wounded; the 12,000 tons displacement. When we steamed into the Sydney lost 3 killed and 14 wounded. We all raced up bay we passed a line of ships carrying Victorian troops. on deck and cheered till we were hoarse. We sang patri, As we passed other ships we had to stand to attention otic songs and the beer canteen was kept open an hour and they all cheered us, but they were surprised at not longer and we finished up at night with a patriotic con, · receiving any response from us and some of the boys on cett. the Victorian troopships counted us out while others Signaller Lowe died at lam and was buried at sea yelled out, "Are you petrified?". next morning by the Dean of Sydney. 30th OCTOBER. Ten New Zealand troopships lOth NOVEMBER. On parade from 8am till llam. arrived at Albany carrying 10,000 troops and escorted At night all the ships had to 'travel with lights out and by several warships, some of which were Japanese. we slept with our lifebelts on as it was feared that 1st.NOVEMBER. The whole fleet left Albany bound German mine-layers might be in the vicinity. for England and comprised 38 troopships and several 15th NOVEMBER. Arrived at Colombo· at midday warships. The warships included the Sydney , the but anchored outside and went into the harbour the MelboUrne , the Minotauf and a Japanese warship. We next morning. Anchored alongside the Sydney and she had a total of 8,000 troops from New South Wales, did not appear much damaged. We had the natives div, Listening Post- Autumn 1996- Page 25 Private James Patrick Broderick_ .ANZAC· ... cont. ing after coins which we threw into the.water. . journey was very interesting, countryside irrigated all 17th NOVEMBER. Left Colombo at 6pm. Colombo the way and under agriculture. ~s a pretty sight at night time and as we steamed out We arrived at Cairo at about 4 o'clock and all lined the searchlights from the lighthouse and the harbour up to get a bun and cup of cocoa. My company was left were playing on us.. . . at the railway station to guard 2,000,000 rounds of I forgot to mention we "crossed the line" on the ammunition which I helped unload from the Buripides . 13th. One man was court-martialled and sentenced to" We nearly broke camp that night, we wanted to explore 21 days in the Guardroom. Cairo. Some of the boys got drunk and did not turn up 25th NOVEMBER. Arrived at Aden but stayed only for two or three days. one day. It was a barren looking place. Some of the boys 7th DECEMBER. Our company, F. was relieved the went ashore to get a few parcels for the officers and said next day and we went out to the camp where the rest of · it was no place,for an Australian. the Battallons were encamped. Our camp was situated on There are big British barracks there facing towards the western side of the pyramids and the Sphinx, the outer harbour. about seven miles out of Cairo; the New Zealanders were camped on the opposite side as also 26th NOVEMBER. We left Aden and went up to the was the Light Horse. The name of our camp was Red Sea, s ighted land very ofren which was utterly bar• Mena and there were 12 Battalions of Infantry and ren sandy waste without any sign of vegetation. The all the Aust ralian Artillery camped there as well. sandhills mounted up, one behind the other, sometimes 8th DECEMBER. I went forming a magnificent spectacle as they faded away into right through, and up to the top of, the biggest pyramid. It the distance. We passed the 12 islands in a row, known is a wonderful construc• as The Twelve Apostles. tion, 460 feet high and covers 11 acres. The Sphinx is queer looking but well worth seeing. 1st DECEMBER. Arrived at Port Suez which is a fair• 24th DECEMBER. ly large place situated at the entrance to the Suez We went into Cairo and had a jolly time. Cairo is a big city Canal. We went Into the Canal at midnight and arrived with a population of 700,000. There are some fine at Port Said at 2.30 the next afternoon. There are hotels and the streets are sever• crowded at al Navy stations along the cana nights with soldiers of many coloured uni• l, manned by the French forms. and guarded by Indian troops. As we went past the We made things pretty French people turned out and shouted "Vive L'Anglais". lively in Cairo for the first · five or six weeks. There was music being We passed a strongly entrenched Indian troop camp played every• where and our boys made further on. The Indians all lined up along the bank the money go around as fast and, as they could. directed by their British Officers, gave us three hearty 25th DECEMBER. cheers. They had about 100 camels and twice as many Christmas Day. We had Church mules and donkeys. Parade In the morning and dinner at 1 o'clock. It was a good dinner with plum The canal varies in width from 40 yards to about 100 pudding and beer being the yards. most notable extras. We were nearly all.drunk by tea• time and there were very few men left in We also pa s sed ~ big French passenger boat about the camp by 6 o'clock that night; they had halfway through the Canal. The passengers we all scaled into town. re all Next day152 French and they were very excited. I saw some very of our Battalion were up before the Colonel for breaking pretty French girls among them. camp and they were sentenced to seven days CB. We arrived at Port Said and dropped anchor along• 31st DECEMBER. New Year's Eve. I went side the wharf. As we were coming in we passed down a into Cairo without leave and was bailed up double row of Australian and New Zealand·troopships by a guard as I was coming home In a motor car with as well as British and French warships and. got a great some pals. We were marched back to camp next day reception from all sides; the bugles sounded the Grand , brought up before the Colonel and all fined one days pay. Salute and mighty cheers rent the air. From daybreak We started new drill formation. until sunset it had been a day of cheering. But then 860 of us went down .with ptomaine poisoning; however we 1915 were all fully recovered within a few days. 1st JANUARY. We took coal from barges tied New drill. Former "F" and "B" alongside the ship Companies which was brought were formed into one Company known as on board by coolies in ba5kets car• "C" Company. ried on their shoulders. '1 2nd JANUARY:Went through usual routine which We left Port Said that afternoon, the New Zealand was as follows: Reveille 6.30am, breakfast at 7, Fall-in at ships leading the way. 8, march out to Parade Ground and drill until1 o'clock 4th DECEMBER. Arrived at Alexandria. . then march back to camp, a distance of three miles. 6th DECEMBER. Disembarked from ship and Dismiss at 2 o'clock, Tea at 5 o'clock and Lights Out at entrained for· Cairo, a distance of about 110 miles. The 10.15pm. Page 26-Listening Post-Autumn 1996 Private JaliJ.es Patrick Broderick . ANZAC ... cont. lOth JANUARY. Sunday Church in the morning, then their pouches. We all envied them and lined up along went into Cairo after dinner and visited the museum. It the road and cheered as they marched past. They were is a magnificent building and contains some very all smiling and seemed glad to be at last going iato ancient relics. I saw mummies there that were actio~. We are all wondering now when the word will embalmed 4000 BC. There are mummies there of come for us to "shoulder arms". . ·· Rameses the 1st, 2nd and 3rd. The skin is dried like The sick and discharged men who are returning to leather but the hair is still on the head. These men were Australia left camp under ~cort on their way to Suez Egyptian kings in the time of Moses. from where they will embark for home. 20th JANUARY. I went into town and through·the 4th FEBRUARY. Thursday. Private Gow of our zoological gardens with their fine breedings of lions, Company died of pneumonia this morning at the Field hippopotamus and rhinoceros but only one Australian hospital. animal, a black walleroo. Amongst other breeds there We went to a lecture on the war given by Mr Stewart were zebra and a fine collection of giraffes, seven in who was in France three weeks ago and saw some of the number, and stood about 16 feet tall. sights of the war. He told us that all the· atrocious acts 21st JANUARY. Turks are reported to be advancing attributed to the Gennans were quite true and also how towards the Canal. Two boys from our tent went into a Dutchman living near Maubergi railway station told hospital with measles. The machine-gun section left him he had seen a train consisting of 42 trucks all cainp and went to Abbysia Barracks in Cairo. About 50 heaped up with dead Germans. nurses arrived from Australia and visited our camp. After the lecture it was announced that the Turks 24th JANUARY. Sunday. Went to mass in the morn• had made an attack on the Suez Canal but were ing and wrote letters to Nell and Ann during the after• repulsed with heavy losses. The New Zealanders were noon. Went to the 9th Battalion camp after tea to see also in the action and lost one Officer and had four men some pals. wounded. 342 Turks were taken prisoner and taken up to Cairo. 25th JANUARY. Monday. Went to see the doctor 5th FEBRUARY. There was heavy fighting at the suffering from sandy blight. Exempted from duty and Canal today and the Turks lost a total of 2000 men stayed in camp all day. killed and wounded. 26th JANUARY. Tuesday. Australia Day! General 6th FEBRUARY. Saturday. Our Battalion went out leave for everyone but I had no money so stayed in on a sham fight this morning. After tea we went to a camp and wrote a few more letters. lecture on "Patrols and Scouting" given by Major Australian mail given out at dinner time. Naughton who has been down at the Canal for the past 27th JANUARY. News ohhe arrival of Turkish three days and knows what's been going on there. patrols around the Canal. The British had a few scraps 11th FEBRUARY. Our Battalion left camp at Barn with them. I went out with Scout Officer for special and marched to a bivouac about six miles north, arriv• scout training and we returned home in a blinding dust ing there ~ bout 2 o'clock. We had marched about 14 storm. miles. After lunch we commenced a sham attack which 28th JANUARY. Thursday. I stayed in camp with a lasted until 6pm and we then started digging trenches. touch of sandy blight. A motor smash along the road Apart from an hour rest for tea we kept going until day- the three Officers hurt. light the next morning. < 29th JANUARY. British troops had another brush 13th FEBRUARY. Saturday. We got up at 3am and with Turk patrols at the-Canal. Rumoured in camp that carried out a sham attack on the other Battalion which the second Australian and New Zealand contingents was entrenched in the hills. It was very cold sleeping in had arrived in Alexandria. We went out on a sham the open. We returned to camp after dinner. fight, bivouacked at night and returned to camp next 14th FEBRUARY. Sunday. The Brigade rested today. day. I went out to visit the tombs and pyramids of Abbysia 1st FEBRUARY. Battalion went out to the range and and Sakhara where there are some wonderful ruins·and through a course of rifle fire but I stayed in camp under relics. We found skulls and all sorts of other remains. doctors' orders, sandy blight again. We fall-in tonight and go on a route march until day- 2nd FEBRUARY. Tuesday. I went out with the light. . Battalion on rifle firing exercises. Our Company· got 16th FEBRUARY. The Brigade fell-in at Barn and the best score but was .disqualified because one man fired Brigadier told us we can now call ourselves soldiers, and after the whistle to-cease firing had been blown. fit for war! Owing to an outbreak of smallpox however 3rd FEBRUARY. Wednesday. Orders came through we will not be moving off yet awhile. There have been six cases of smallpox up to date and two have died. at midnight last night that 7th and 8th. Battalions were to leave for the Canal and at 11 this morning they We were all vacCinated against this disease. this after• marched away with 150 round of ammunition eaCh in noon and we also learned that the 7th and 8th Battalions returned to their old camp alongside ours. · Listening Post- Autumn 1996-Page 27 Private James Patrick Broderick · ANZAC ... cont. . Sergeant Griffith was court martialled for being arrived in Alexandria at 9am. We then embarked on absent without leave (AWL) and was reduced to the the TS Lake Michigan. This vessel is 8500 tons displace• rank ofCorporal. ment and was one of the Canadian troopships. Since 19th FEBRUARY. We all went to a lecture on Turkey the war began she has carried over 40,000 troops to the after rea. front. 20th FEBRUARY. Annual leave for our Battalion It is Easter Sunday. and I started out to catch a tram but was kicked in the 5th APRIL. Easter Monday. We left Alexandria at leg by a horse trotting along the road past me. I was car• midnight and are steaming for an unknown destination. ried back to camp on a stretcher but was able to limp 6th APRIL. We are steaming in a north westerly about after a few days rest. direction and are sighting numerous islands. 25th FEBRUARY. News in the camp that we will 7th APRIL. Wednesday. Arrived at the island of Lemnos shortly be leaving Egypt and we are all in in the Dardanelles Straits at 9am. We are now good spirits. only 60 miles away 26th FEBRUARY. from where the warships are bomb• 9th Battalion struck tents in ing the Turkish positions. . • preparation to leave for an unknown destinati on. 8th APRlL. Lying in harbour. More troopships arrive. 27th FEBRUARY. The advance guard of the 9th lOth APRIL. More and more troopships arriving. Division left camp today. 13th APRIL. Received nine letters today. lOth MARCH. Wednesday. Reveille at 4.30am and 14th APRIL. Wednesday. Our Brigade the went ashore whole Division was out digging trenches all day. and carried out a sham attack. We had to invade Australian mail arrived and I received 11 letters. After through water without boats for about 20 yards as we tea we went to a wrestling match, Australia v could not ge the boats close enough up to the shore. Champion of Egypt. 15th APRIL. Repeated yesterday's exercise. 11th MARCH. The division was again out digging 16th APRIL. As yesterday. trenches and erecting barbed wire entanglements. A big 17th APRIL. On guard on board the ship. dust storm came up and we.returned to camp at lOam. 18th APRIL. Went to Church Parade and to 12th MARCH. Marched out to where the trenches confession. had been dug and camped in them all night. Our 19th APRIL. Monday. British sailors off the HMS Brigade occupied the trenches and the 2nd Brigade Dublin and other warships came on board, they are made an attack on us at midnight but they ran foul of going to assist us in the landing operations. Rumours the barbed wire and we repulsed them. that a transport was attacked off Sgmna by a Turkish 14th MARCH. I went out to Heliopolis and visited submarine (more likely a German U-Boat. Ed.). 40 lives Luna Park, the Citadel Fortress and Great Mahomedan were ·lost. A British gunboat sank the submarine with Mosque and also the contingent camp. all bands. 17th MARCH. St Patrick's Day. We camped out all We expect to go into action tomorrow on the night and carried out an attack against the 2nd Brigade. Gallipoli Peninsula agairlst the Turks. 29th MARCH. Monday. General Sir Ian· Hamilton 20th APRIL. We received orders to move but they inspected the Division this morning and declared that were cancelled. we were a magnificent body of men- go\ it Australia! It 21st APRIL. Wednesday Still waiting. is rumoured that Sir Ian Hamilton is to take command 22nd APRIL. Thursday. Stlll waiting. of all the British forces in Egypt. 23rd APRIL. Friday. Orders to move - at last! 30th MARCH. Heard a rumour today that we will be . 24th APRIL. Saturday. At midday today we steamed leaving Egypt shortly. out passing numerous troopships and warships anchored 31st MARCH. A Divisional attack was carried out at a place 30 miles from where we are to make an attack today. Third reinforcements arrived in camp. at 3am· in the morning. We are all in great spirits and 2nd APRIL. Good Friday. A serious riot occurred in are well equipped. The boys are all singing and joking. Everyone wears Cairo this afternoon. Our troops ran amok and burnt a smile. NOW fOR IT. two or three business places down and several soldiers Those were the last words ever to be recorded by Private James were shot by the Military Police. The fracas was caused Patrick Broderick. He was wounded in that historic and monstrous military by Egyptians molesting some of our boys. The Light disaster of Gallipoli and died on 6 May 1915, just 12 days after the Anzacs Horse were called in to quieten the riot. landed. 3rd APRIL. Saturday. We received orders today to Grieved and in mourning, Private Broderick's fiancee move to Cairo where we will entrain for Alexandria and did not marry until manyJears after receiving the news the boys cheered lustily when the "orders were given ciut. of his death - and I marrie her elder daughter! We marched to the Cairo central railway station and boarded the train for Alexandria. WA (WALLY) EVES, 8 Tanunda Road, Coogee Beach We left camp at 9pm and arrived in Cairo at mid• 6166 night, having marched 10 miles with full equipment. NB: The ardcll tftkd "The Aumallan and New Zt4land Expeditionary Paroo", print«i 'in the autumn 199-f tdition, COIIft'S !M departure of !M filet from 4th APRIL. The train moved off at 3am and we Alban:1 as mentioned in t1ie diary dated 1 N041tf11bc. Ediwr. Page 28-Llatenlng Post- Autumn 1996 HOW OVER $20 MILLION IN RSL PRIME LIFE 50+ BENEFITS HAS HELPED YOUR:FELLOW RSL MEMBERS AND THEIR FAMILIES Over the years spent as your State President, I have had the honour of speaking with a great many of our members, and one of the- biggest concerns I hear from them is the fear of leaving a financial burden to their spouse or family when they pass on. And that's when I tell them about Prime Life 50+ Plan - the Official Life Insurance Programme of the RSL. 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Page 30-Ustenlng Post- Autumn 1996 AUSTRALIA-THAILAND MEMORIAL PROJECT · HELLFIRE .PASS In May 1995 the Australian Government allocated Placement of a locomotive and rolling stock of the $1.6m to join with authorities in Thailand in develop• period on a reconstructed rail-bed adjacent to Kon}tu ing the Hellfire Pass area of the Burma-Thailand Cutting; Railway as a Memorial Park. That initiative arose from Development of standing arrangements for continued Prime Minister Keating's visit to Hellfire Pass in April maintenance of the Memorial Complex. 1994 and from his discussions with, among others, the The Department of Veterans' Affairs is the agency Director of Thai National Security Command - the responsible for the Commonwealth's role in this project Military Authority under whose jurisdiction the territo• and I, as Project Director, will be responsible through ry encompassing Hellfire Pass lies. Secretary Dr Alien Hawke to the Minister. To be my In September 1994 and in October 1995 I visited On-Site Project Manager I have engaged Mr Rod Thailand to familiarise with the area, to appreciate the Beattie, an Australian. businessman based in work that has been done by the ex-POW Association, Kanchanaburi and a person well known to many ex-. the Australian-Thai Chamber of Commerce, the RSL POWs and visitors to Hellfire Pass. Rod and members of and other bodies and to develop understandings with the Australian/Thai Chamber of Commerce have Thai Authorities as to our respective roles in the pro• already invested a great deal of voluntary effort ln the ject. Hellfire Pass Memorial and in clearing the rail-bed We intend developing a Memorial Complex that will alignment between Konyu Cutting and Compressor honour the achievements and suffering of Prisoners of Cutting. War in construction of the Burma-Thailand Railway We are very fortunate that Rod has offered his ser• and in its maintenance throughout the remainder of the vices as On-Site Project Manager as I am certain there .war. The Memorial Complex will focus on the engineer• would be few people as well versed in the social, cultural ing objectives and human achievements under adversity and commercial environment of that region of Thail~d rather than dwell on the brutality of the captors and as Rod Beattie. As On-Site Project Manager, Rod their treatment of the Prisoners of War. We intend that Beattie will be under contract to the Commonwealth the Memorial Complex be designed as a walk-through and will report directly to me as Project Manager. The series of exhibits that will inform by virtue of the range • MORE OVER PAGE and quality of the material presented, while .------, allowing visitors to experience SOf!lething of the harsh total environment in which work on the construction of the railway was con• ducted. Work on the Memorial Complex will be directed tow ~ rds the following: Improved road access through the property of the Royal Thai•Army's Livestock Research Unit to the area immediately above Konyu Cutting (Hellfire Pass); Development of a vehicle parking area ln the vicinity of the existing concrete stair way leading to Konyu Cutting; Development and construction of a quality War Museum and Information Centre adja cent to the existing stairway leading to Konyu Cutting; Development of a 'tourist negotiable' walk ing trail from Konyu Cutting over some 4.5 kilometres along the alignment of the rail• bed to Compressor Cutting; RAILWAY LINK Construction of rest stations and inform• KONYU - HINTOK SECTION ation displays at selected points of particu •• •t Oec•'"'•' 1144 Coms>ll•• by KIN .fi!AOLIT A.T.C.C. lar interest along the walking trail; JAHUA"Y 1tlt . - Listening Post- Autumn 1996-Page 31 ~ustralia-Thailand Mem ~ ori-1 Project· Hellfi~e Pass ... cont .. . Australian Embassy and the Australian{Thai Chamber ment where exhibits would be properly protected ' of Commerce will of course play important supporting against damage from the elements and visitor handling. roles. The information displays anhe four or five rest stations Although we estimated it will take until December along the· pedestrian path would be profeSl!ionally pre• 1997 to complete the construction phase of the project, pared and produced in a way that would protect them we afm to have developed the walking trails sufficiently from the ~lements and vandalism. to enable visitors to make the journey from Konyu This is an extensive and exciting project, and we aim Cutting to the intersection of the rail-bed and Hinrock to build on the excellent work that has been Road by April 1996. Accordingly, we intend formally done over the years by the ex-POW As launching the project with a 'ribbon cutting' ceremony sociation and others. Konyu Cutting (Hellfire following the Dawn Service at Hellfire Pass on Anzac Pass) itself and the Memorials Day 1996. already there will be preserved in their present form and funds already raised The War Museum and Information Centre will be a to support the Hellfire Pass very important component of the Memorial Complex as Memorial and held by the Australian/Thai Chamber of Com it will introduce the visitor to the story and the reality merce will be employed strictly towards that par• of the Burma-Thailand Railway. We envisage it con• ticular feature of the Memorial Complex. • taining relief models depicting the entire len gth of the As Project Director, I would welcome ideas and sup- railway and as well as the area encompassed by the port for this project from any source whatsoever. There Memorial Complex and a wo rking model of Hellfire are obvious difficulties in managing a project and co• Pass itself supported by light and sound effects and an ordinating so many interests at long range. However, I audio narrative. We are also considering development believe we are fortunate to have secured the services of of a. client activated video as a further means of telling Rod Beattie as ou.r On-Site Project Manager, and our the story of the Burma-Thailand Railway. We intend objective will be to produce the most informative and that the War Museum include a retail outlet/il\forma• 'visitor friendly' Memorial Complex possible within the tion centre at which books and pamphlets would be finite resources that have been allocated to it. I shall be av;lilable. The War Museum/Information Centre would issuing periodic newsletters as the project develops, and be under the care and supervision of a residenr curator. I look forward to the support of the Veterans' communi• While we envisage contracting with specialist suppli• ty and especially the ex-POW Association in this very ers for development of the displays and audio-visual fea• exciting venture. tures, we are appealing to veterans for suggestions as to ALAN HEGGEN, Director War Graves other displays and especially for donations of any mater• PO Box 21, Woden Acr 2606 ial they would be prepared to make available. We Tel: (06) 289 1111, Fax: (06) 285 3367 intend that the War Museum be a controlled environ-

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Page 32-Listening Post - Autumn 1996 The Imperial Rescript issued by the Japanese Emperor SURRENDER cussion or debate. Nor is it for us here to meet, repre, We, the Emperor, have ordered the Imperial senting as we do a majority of the people of the earth, in Government to notify the four countries, the United a spirit of distrust, malice, or hatred. but rather it is for States, Great Britain, China and the Soviet Union, that us, both victors and vanquished, to rise to that higher We accept their Joint Declaration. To ensure the tran, dignity which alone befits the sacred purposes we are quillity of the subjects of the Empire and share with all about to serve, committing all our peoples unreServedly the countries of the world the joys of co,prosperity, sU<;:h to faithful compliance with the imderstandings that is the rule that was left to Us by the Founder of the they are here to formally assume. Empire of Our Illustrious Ancestors, which we have It is my earnest hope .... that from this solemn occa, endeavoured to follow. Today, however, the military sit, sion a better world shall emerge ... a wodd dedicated to uation can no longer take a favourable turn, and 1:he the digQ.ity of man.. . The terms and conditions upon general tendencies of the world are not to our advantage which surrender of the Japanese Imperial forces ~s here either. to be given and accepted are contained in the instru, What is worse, the enemy, who has recently made use ment of surrender before you. of an inhuman bomb, is incessantly subjecting innocent Let us pray that peace now be restored to the world, people to· grievous wounds and massacre. The devasta, and that God will preserve it always. tion is taking on incalculable proportions. To continue These proceedings are closed. the war under these conditions would not only lead to General MacArthur the annihilation of Our Nation, but the destruction of Courtesy: Mount Lawley,Inglewood Sub, Branch human civilization as well. How could We then protect Our innumerable subjects, who are like new,bQm babes RSL War Veterans' for Us? How could we ask the forgiveness of the divine spirits of.Our Imperial Ancestors? When our thoughts Homes Video Library dwell oh those of Our subjects who died in battle, those who fell as victims of their duty, those who were per, The Residents of the War Veterans' Homes ished by premature death, and on the families they left at Mt Lawley and Meadow Springs, behind them, We feel profoundly upset. Mandurah, have been given video ....It is Our desire to initiate an era ofpeace for future generations by tolerating the intolerable and enduring recorders through the generosity of the unendurable. Capable of m_aintaU:ting the national Highgate Sub-Branch (for the Mt Lawley . policy and placil).g Our ·trust in the perfect sincerity of recorder) and the members of the Our good and faithful subjects, We will always be with you. Mandurah RSL Social Club (for the Let all the countries, like one single family where tra, Meadow Springs Unit). clition is handed down from son to grandson, have firm We riow seek support in the form of faith in the indestructible character of the Land of the Gods. Rem~mbering Our heavy responsibllities and the donations of old or new video tapes to length of ·the road yet to be ·covered, concentrating all start video libraries in both homes for Our strength on the construction of the future, animat, the benefit of our residents. ed by deep morality and firm hon~ty, We swear to hold the flower of Our National policy very high, resolved Further information may be obtained not to remain b~ckward in the· general progress of the from Jill Van Blommestein on world, We ask you, Our subjects, to be the incarnation (09) 370 0200 during office hours or of Our will. Hirohito. by sending your donation directly to: THE END The RSL War Veterans' Home. he ~e, We are gathered representaeives of the major 51 Alexander Drive, Mt Lawley WA 6050 warring pbwers, to conclude a solemn agreelJlent where, by peace·may be restored. The issues, involving diver· .../ or to: g~nt ideals and ideologies, haye been determined on the The RSL War Veterans' Home battlefields of the world and hence are not for our dis, 62 Oakmont Avenue, Meadow Springs. Listening Post- Autumn 1996-Page 33 The Anzac Day Some 50,000 World War 11 Army personnel have not claimed their medal entitlement. As the average Parade issue to a veteran is four medals: 1939/45 STAR, . DEFENCE MEDAL, WAR MEDAL, AUSTRALIA SERVICE MEDAL, about 200,000 medals are waiting B1 Edith Arnold to be claimed. Medals emblazed 'cross the left-side breast, sprig of rosemary in their lapel, they wait, those Veterans, or if deceased, their immediate family, may veterans to honour the dead in the.march of the claim medals by writing to the relevant Service Medals Aruac Parade. Wearied themselves by the toll of Office: the years, and wounds that were battle-earned NAVY: Staff Officer Medals they proudly assemble as mark of respect, for Directorate of Naval Personnel mates who never returned .... Servlces Nostalgia rife, they thoughtfully stand 'til a hand D-3~14 grasps their's in a vice, and they turn away quickly, Russell Offices, Canberra ACT to cover emotion not shown at .any old price. Banners unfurl as tension mounts, veterans stand to 2600 attention and ARMY: steady, for this is their chance Medal Section/Cam to show respect, and each is willing and ready. Soldier Career Management Silently they wait with their purpose in sight Agency with thoughts of their comrades who fell, with PO Box393 D thanks for deliverance that they were spared, GPO Melbourne 3001 spared from the battlefield hell. RAAF: Discharged Medals Section The call, 'Forward March', and the veterans Department of Defence (Air brace and step out with a swinging stride, but in Force Office) the mind of those marching the words echo loud and is PO Box E33 the war flashed back 'fore their eyes. Crowds lining the streets, call, 'Good on ya Digger'. Queen Victoria Tee Some yell, 'Ya done'a good job', but no-one Canberra ACT 2600 calls for the lost ones, Harry, Mary or Bob. NEW DEFENCE AWARDS But they're in the thoughts of the veterans and their memories will ever enfold ... The Government has received approval to amend the Those entitlement to two World War II medals: ... who will never grow weary Those ... who will never grow old ... AFRICA STAR· SERVICE IN SYRIA (1 day) 8.6.41 to 11.7.41 1939/45 STAR • SERVICE IN DARWIN THE CLUB 19.2.42 to 12.11.43 WITH A DIFFERENCE In addition to 'the above entitlement, the Committee ANZAC HOUSE of Inquiry into Defence Awards (CIDA) has recom• 28 ST GEORGES TERRACE mended the issue of the following: PERTH 1945 .. 1975 . (Opposite Government House) AUSTRALIAN SERVICE MEDAL WITH RELEVANT CLASP JAPAN 1945/47 (90 days) Drinks below hotel prices KOREA 1953/57 (30 days) Meals and snacks available 11-W/MALAY 1960/64 . (30 days) Financial league members 1HAILAND 1964/66 (30 days) are members of the club PNG 1951n5 (180 days) m~mbers KASHMIR 194Sns (90 da~) Country .are espe.cially welcome WEST NEW GUINEA 1962/63 (30 days) Urut funct10ns catered for INDONESIA 1947/51 (90 days) For further details contact MIDDLE EAST 1948ns (90 days) Club Manager Applications for these Awards should be forwarded to Telephone (09) 325 9079 the relevant Service Medal Office. MEET YOU AT ANZAC CLUB Pege 34-Ustenlng Post- Autumn 1998 WOMEN. OF WAR HONOURED. . · Miss Sylvia Perry MBE, who was the first comman• dant of Voluntary Aid Detachments (VADs) at Hollywood Hospital during World War 11, was the spe• cial guest at a lunch hosted by the hospital in October. Prior to World Wat 11, the VADs taught first aid and helped with general duties in hospital. At the outbreak of war these women replaced male personnel in military hospitals and were employed as nursing orderlies, clerks, dental, x-ray, theatre and pathology assistants, tele• phonists and dieticians. The reunion lunch was part of the 'Australia Remembers' celebrations, organised by RSL executive member Barbara Clinton. · Hollywood's Director of Clinical Services, julie-Anne Wark, spoke at the lunch on the contribution of the women to the war- and to Hollywood. In 1942 the VADs became the Australian Army Memorial Medical Women's Service and were no longer considered volunteers. Also honoured at the lunch were the Emergency Service Companies (ESC) who were a part of the Red Cross. The ESC did a variety of work •.including deliver• ies of blood (often by bicycle), organising catering, afternoon teas, concert parties and by running messages. Kevin Mattingley, Chairman of WA's 'Australia Remembers' committee, delivered the keynote address at the lunch. Jock Morrison, Australian Red Cross Chairman (WA), toasted the Emergency Service Companies. CATHERINE ARCHER,Public Relations Manager, Hollywood Hospital

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Members of the Australian 450 Squadron of 239 position was given away. The next hour was spent seek- Wing, were well aware of the term "Cab Ranks" in ing protection from 88 shellfire. · 1944/5. How many knew of the organisation behind the Rovers David, Paddy and Jack were appreciated, how• scene? ever, when the line was breached and the bombline "Only the Poms could create an acronym like moved north after a massive anti-personnel bombing by MORU" , a common expression by pilots when refer, · -lOOs of allied aircraft. At last we were on our way. ring to Mobile Operations Room Units, the ground con• 450 pilots at the time will remember the bonanza of trol of cab ranks. Cab Ranking, a strategy th~t originat• transport, guns and troops, as the Germans congested ed from the army, was used in Italy to offer close support their way along the few operable roads. Cab Ranks bombing and strafing of targets. dawn till dusk. Busy. Busy. Personnel establ~hment of No. 1 MORU was an air• It was at· this time that ~ Rover Paddy met Jerry's force officer commanding, (Substantive rank Flight mobile rocket platforms, whilst attached to the 2nd Lieut.), an army intelligence officer (Captain), a Armoured Brigade. Trucks would drive to the front, sergeant and seven other ranks. The radio room was launch dozens of rockets in one burst, then disappear. housed'in tank or half-track vehicles. Two jeeps and a 3- The Rover Paddy team became exhausted. The radio tonner ensured mobility. was kept open 14 hours a day, packed, moved forward in darkness to the next day's forward position. They fed, By 1944, 239 Wing, associated with the British 8th dossed down in the snow - then, wham! Very little Army in Italy, proved a major force in reducing the sleep. effectiveness of German 88mm gun emplacements and Late one afternoon Div. HQ sent a message of troop their transport during daylight hours. 450 Sqdn was one concentrations about to cross a river in their mad dash that patrolled the bombline regularly for 20-30 minutes, towards Venice. A Cab Rank (not sure if it was 450), awaiting a call from Rovers Paddy, Jack or David, before destroyed the bridges and vehicles were trapped nose to taking on alternative targets. Another squadron or tail. Heavy sequential bombing and strafing by 239 flight would replace the previous cab rank and so it Wing caused havoc until dusk. The next morning many went c;m all the hours of daylight - weather permitting. vehicles were still burning. The good thing was that the Having completed a tour of operations a pilot, prefer• Rover Paddy boys were able to procure extra transport ably with some army experience, was posted to MORU (Fiat vans for safe identification). No more sleeping in as officer commanding. Pilots were chosen to command the snow! because they were better able to direct operations from Shortly afterwards, whilst participating in the libera• air to ground. A real live situation training course was . tion of a village called Stranghella, I was hit by our own required. (I had served time with the CMF in Australia, half-track and spent a week in hospital at Forli before awaiting call-up to the RAAR) CMF experience proved rejoining Rover Paddy at Ferrara. little adv.antage in preparation for what was ahead - lots Rover Paddy saw the war out in a situation that of shelling, mortar and machine-gun· fire. The training almost amounted to World Wardll. The Russians and was intensive and last'ed one week. The most terrifying the Yugoslav annies occupied Trieste (against the Yalta componerlt was being ordered to participate in a night Tripartite Agreement). General Alexander withheld fighting foot patrol. This pilot proved himself a ground plans to the mining of the harbour which cut off their chicken. I peeled off from the patrol into a farmhouse supply. Troops faced each other under constant alert. and awaited its return. I sat in a dark room, back to the The stalemate lasted six weeks. Rover Paddy was wall, facing the door with revolver at the ready. It was attached to the American 91st Division most of the almost unbearable - especi~lly when there was mac.hine time whilst this was going on. The rest of the world was gun fire nearby. Our patrol had run into opposition celebrating! close to where this pilot was hiding. The sergeant, a I managed to catch up with old friends in the 2NZ good type, kept quiet about lack of airman support dur- Div. which was stationed in luxurious surroundings at ing his report. · Castella Miramori, a few miles east of Trieste. Ttme was After one week's training tl).e new 0/C Rover was found for many VE celebrations with free, top quality given a jeep and told to r~pott to such and such a map German wines and good Italian food. One could recount many other memorable experi• reference to pick up his Vnit. He had to ask the driver how to read an army map!) A brash entry to 56th ences with Rover Paddy's capture of German equivalent of a NAAFI, distribution of Jerry loot and celebrations London Div. HQ brought s ~ reams of anguish when their back at 450 Squadron, then stationed at Udine. Listening Post- Autumn 1996-Page 39 MY. FLAG:. IS IT· YOUR PLA&'l- "Snow" Mackrell ofNanango was a leading stoker on was in no danger, the war was overseas. I was fighting for HMAS Holxzrt during the Battle of the Coral Sea. Some King and Country and, do not forget, my flag. time ago, he wrote. a letter to the Editor of The South I was in the Mediterranean when Japan attacked our . Bumett Times (1.10.93). It should be made compulsory part of the world and, on 15 December 1941, out whole r ~ading for all politicians and schoolchildren. The letter world changed. We were fighting now for our land, our is reprinted below: loved ones. We had buried sailors over the side on Sir, Hobart, under the Australian flag; we put two 3 lb can, I first saw the flag when I was five and a half years old, non balls between their ankles, the bodies were.placed and every Monday morning I stood in the playground at in a shroud, on a plank, and slowly slipped to the deep 9am and was instructed to obey that flag until I was four, in Davy Jones' locker during a church service. If we were teen and a half years old and started out in the work . close to the coast line, bodies were taken ashore fo.r a force. burial service. · I joined the Naval sea cadets in 1938 and was given a That Union Jack in the corner meant a lot to those uniform anq again instructed in the real meaning of that men who died and we, the.people who served under that flag, but I had two flags to salute; one was the same as flag, bear scars, health problems and many medals. But today, except for the extra star, and the White Ensign, at we remember the flag. the Williamstown Naval Depot. The Navy held to strict My family bought me a flag pole and the Australian protocol for both flags; they were held high in tradition. flag is hoisted every morning and lowered every evening. The White .Ensign was flown astern, and the To me, you, the people of Australia, can change the Australian flag at the main mast and when 'action sta• Senate, the House of Representatives, the Parliament: tions' sounded as we were about to engage in battle. you can even change t9 a republic. We fought for you to Both were given to us by Acts of Parliament, 1901 and vote democratically; we fought the wars, gave you that 1911. Our Navy flag of 1911 was given when our right to change whatever you may wish to change, but Australian Navy was formed and we separated from please respect my wish and vote for 'No change'. Do not Mother England's Royal Navy. change or alter my Australian flag. I helped save your Did you know that our White Ensign was the first flag country, your way of life; you help me to keep my flag. into New Guinea in September, 1914 and the first into I am over 70 years old, m.aybe I will not be here for the Gallipoli in 1915? vote to change or not to change. My wife also served and In 1939 we carried on that tradition every morning on we have 10 descendants to vote for no change. I also board my ship HMAS Holxzrt. We carried both these hope all ex,servicemen and women vote our way as will flags to dozens of foreign countries, one on a da~ly rou, we , the proud Australians who fought under that flag. tine, the other only in battle. . Courtesy: Sailing away from my homeland Australia at 17 years SOUTH EASTERN DIGEST of age, I did not have to worry about my Australia. S~e . PO B.ox 45, New Farm, Queensland 4005. CORKS R.S.L. -FUNDRAISING ARE YOU "SAVE YOUR.CORKS!!I" MOVING? ch~p~e PI.EJ.SEI«)llFY We are collecting wine, and STATE sa:llETARY RETIJRIIED NIO SEIMCI:S lEAGUE spirit corks to · raise money to provide 1'0 BOX Yml EASTST~TCE extra facilities and services· for our PERTH81132 Veterans. Any amount of corks would be greatly appreciated and can be delivered to Anzac House. 28 St Georges Terr~ce, Reg No ...... (Sub Branch) ...... Perth, or to the RS'L War Veterans' Surname ...... Home, 51 Alexander Drive, Mt Lawley. If you are unable to drop the corks into Christian Names ....., ...... , ...... either of the above, phone ~c House Old· Address ...... :, ...... on 325 9799.or the RSL War Veterans' Home on 370 0200, and.• arrangements ...... P/Code ...... can be made to pick them 1.\p. New Address ...... THANKYOUII ...... P/Code ......

Page 40- Listening Post- Autumn 1996 ·HALL·OF REMEMBRANCE OPENS

In one of the final ceremonies for the 'Australia Remembers'. year, Hollywood Private Hospital's Hall of Remembrance was opened on November 9 by Mr Len Keynes, RSL State President. Among the guests was Mr Ronald Ledger, the original architect of Hollywood, which was built as the 110 Military Hospital in 1942, during World War ll:. Mr Roger Snell, Hollywood's Executive Director, said the hall had been built following a pledge by Mr Paul Ramsay, at takeover of the hospital by Ramsay Health Care. "Part of his pledge was that a memorabilia hall would be built to house photos, old instruments and equipment that may well have been stored away forever in some dark basement." More than 160 ex,service men and women attended the ceremony. For further details on opening hours, please contact Catherine Archer on 346 6716.

ABOVE: At the openinr of the Hollywood Hall of Remembrance were Mr Frank Verdi, RSL State &eaai« Member, Mr Roser SneU, Executive Dire.ctor of Holl;ywood Private Htnf1ital, Mr Ronald l.eJ«er • the oririnal architect of Holl,._,d ·and Mr Lm Keynu.

RIGHT: Holl;ywood memories: MU'i Harler, Mn Bett;y Bennetu, Mill Francu Sinclair, Mrs Bar&ara Clinton, RSL State Executive Member, Mn Heather McMannis and Mn Gl,nn Cod, at the opmina. of the Hollywood Hall of Remembrance.

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By Max Shean . brightening by the hour, so that I was able to steer with• In mid,May 1995 I joined five.of my former (midget out gloves and numb frngers. After all, it was only five submarine) shipmates for a cruise In Blue Merlin from weeks to summer solstice. The engine was started as we Loch Melfort, south of Oban, Scotland to Loch approached the Kyle of Lochalsh (the narrows where Cairnbawn, south of Cape Wrath, the advance base for car ferries ply between Skye and the mainland). With all wartime North Sea operations. Blue Merlin is a 46 foot seven diesel and three-tide knots, we slid quickly past Fisher de&ign motorsailer, chartered by Adam Berguis, the road-bridge works, thus relieving the pain felt by the XE4's diver, and skippered by owner Bruce Howard; it is locals. Easier road access to this beautiful island will well equipped and powered with sail furling, and anchor increase its car population but will not make it more winch, auto steering, electronic communication and nav• enjoyable for them. igation aids and gas and microwave cooking. It was decided to press on to reach Cairnbawn that Our aim was to reach Loch Cairnbawn and to anchor day. With fading wind, flattening sea, warming air, where mother-ship HMS Bonaventure had moored 50 steady speed under engine and steady course under years before, a passage of 200 miles. A NW gale had "George", the comradeship of service became very much swept, washed and chilled the west coast of Scotland in evidence as veterans accumulated in the cosy wheel• and as I drove to Loch Melfort over the Perthshire hills, house, each with a good dram in hand, and a fund of all were snow-covered. Dress for leaving harbour includ• anecdotes from the past. Here was fellowship at its best, ed thermal underwear, warm shirt and trousers, woolly• where each country represented (Canada, New Zealand, pullover, padded vest, waterproof suit, seaboots with two France, Britain and Australia) tried to out-yam the pairs of woollen socks, woollen cap, hood and gloves. other, while dolphins cavorted beneath the bow and the Does that sound familiar to any submariners reading majestic mountains appeared to starboard. These are the this? Torridon "hills": Cui Mar, Canisp, Quinag, Cul Beg, It was not too rough as we negotiated the land-locked Suilven and Stac Pollaidh, all 3-4000 feet, snow• waters to ward the Sound of Mull and I found that Blue capped. To port, Harris and Lewis were just visible, Merlin , with her 25 tons, gave me a much gentler ride while a keen lookout had to be kept for lobster-pot than my five ton Bluebell . Although we had not sailed floats. What a contrast with the X-craft days when the until well into the afternoon, after stowing loads of food lonely figure keeping watch on the casing had no shel• and grog, we made good speed with the tidal current 'up ter, no heating and no dram! our kilt' and arrived In the serene port of Tobermory In As the sun set In its oblique slide to the horizon we the twilight. What a contrast to those restless World rounded the Point of Stoer, guided by the Old Man of War 11 days when "The Terror of Tobermory" kept all us Steer who stood out from the cliffs to point out the nar·. junior officers on our toes. In spite of adequate catering row entrance to Loch Cairnbawn, with low islands to on board, all hands had to make a run ashore and Peter port and the villages of Drum beg and Nedd to starboard, Shand-Kydd, the most affluent among us, called for fish the last sight of ~ritaln which some of our shipmates and chips. But we did dine aboard, and most adequate it bound for Kaa Fjord and Bergen would have seen. Once was. in the broad, steep sided, beautiful Lpch Caimbawn, Sunday 15 May heard "Special sea dutymen" at 0700 with Qulnag standing high beyond the southern shore, and we were away with two headsails, main and mizzen, Blue MerUn quickly found Bonaventuie's mooring place mound the north of Mu tl and toward the troubled and anchored therein, within sight of the new high• waters off Ardnamurchan Point, where BluebeU certain· level bridge near the Kylesku Inn. ly would have made me seasick, but not Blue Merlin • Monday all hands scrambled ashore over the rocks to · She had magic in her movement, though as we headed inspect the newly erected memorial cairn, and then north east into the Sound of Sleat with the Atlantic sampled food and drink at the Inn. There, by coinci· swell following us, there was a tendency to yaw and I let dence, we met Pamela Mitchell, whose father directed a her gybe once, breaking the hydraulic vang (diagonal company which built X-craft and who had published . stay) on the heavy boom. After receiving a "bottle" her first book on the subject "The Tip of the Spear". We from the skipper, we fitted a preventing sheet and rolled also stumbled along the shore and located Bonaventure's and pitched our way Into the narrowing waters between mooring blocks and what is left of the armoured tele· Skye and the mainland. phone cable which once carried vital secret messages to Memories now were stirred by the once familiar sight, do with the X-craft attack on Trrpitz 50 year& ago come the islands of Canna, Rhum, Eigg and Muck to port, 22 September next. ' · and the distant Cuillen hills of Skye. The wind was That evening, sentiment Saving been satisfied, we gradually moderating, the mist clearing and the sun made the short passage past the Old Man again to Page 44-Llatenlng Poet- Autumn 1996 •110~ OYER PAGE . Hebrides Revi·stted ... cont. Air Marshal Lochinver, a pretty fishing port where the EEC con• Sir John Lapsley tributed to the building of new wharves, cold store and marke~ - enabling French super-trawlers to fish Scottish Air Marshal Sir John Lapsley, who has died aged 79, waters and s.end their catch direct to France, depriving served with distinction in World War II as a fighter the Culag Hotel of its harbour view and the small fish• pilot in North Africa and later played a key role in the erman of his liying. After a second night anchored in a introduction of a new generation of jet fighters. small b?y nearby, we made a calm passage to Tobermory When Italy entered the war in 1940 the ill-equipped and arrtved back at Loch Melfort by noon Friday all on Allied desert air force found itself vastly outnumbered. engine and in calm water. ' Within a few days Lapsley, flying a Gladiator bi-plane, had scored his first victory, On 31 May, but was forced down behind we returned to Kylesku by road to attend the Libyan frontier. the. unveiling of the plaque: memorial to X-craft and He escaped to Egypt human torpedo meh lost on active service. Three by using a gold watch to bribe a reluctant Australians are included in their memory. Bedouin to give him a lift on one of his camels. Lapsley then saddleb~gs Mary and I placed our tribute of eucalyptus leaves used the animal's to brought from Australia. It was a bitterly cold morning scale the heavy barbed wire fence which the Italians but that did not deter a devoted crowd of local people, had erected inside the Libyan border. He was lucky to many of whom were residents at the time of these oper• be picked up by a British patrol. ations ·and are now in their 70s and 80s. There were He was then posted to 274 Squadron, recently re• many reunions, two of which were heart-warming for equipped with Hurricanes. On 10 September 1940 me. Ruth Barham was a close friend of Bill Whittam, Lapsley and his wing-man engaged a formation of five 1st Lt. of X7 which successfully attacked Tirpitz who enemy bombers above Mersa Matruh. then sank her, drowning Bill and ERA Whitley - whose The wing-man's guns jammed, but Lapsley accounted names were on the plaque. Ruth stood in the chill for two aircraft and was attacking a third when his wind, wearing Bill's .medals. Ishbel McLeod was four armol,lred windscreen was shattered (though fortunately years old when she spotted my X24 while on a stealth not penetrated) by a direct hit from a machine gun bul• exercise in Loch Glen Coul, and is now about to let. He was awarded the DFC. become a grandmother. She also braved the elements By the spring of 1941 the Luftwaffe had become heavi• with her daughter, the one who is about to become a ly committed in the desert, and Lapslely, who had by then mother. As they say, life goes on. destroyed 11 enemy aircraft, was flying from the besieged NB: About the author - Max Shean served in Tobruk enclave, held by the Australian Brigade Group. corvettes and midget submarines during World War II On April19 he engaged three German Me.109s, and and was decorated by both the British and the in the ensuing dogfight was shot down, crash-landing Americans for his services in the Atlantic, the North near the Australian lines. He escaped from his Sea and the Pacific theatres. Hurricane but was ·Strafed on the ground and severely His service in HM Corvette Bluebell early on gave wounded in the leg. the name to his post-war yacht Bluebell in which Max An Australian soldier ran out to Lapsley under fire and his crew won the Parmelia. Race from UK to and kept him alive until an ambulance team was able to Femantle - part of the WA celebrations of 150 years of recover them both after dark. statehood. · I In later years Lapsley was particularly pleased to Be It was Max's time in his X-craft (midget sub) X24 made a life member of the Australian RSL. and their involvement in attacks on the Tirpitl · i~ John Hugh Lapsley was born in Dhaka on 24 Bergen Fjord which saw him and his wife at the 50th September 1916. His father, who worked for the Bank anniversary celebrations in NW Scotland. of Bengal, died when John was two. His mother remar• Courtesy: Friends of RPH ried and in 1920 moved ro the Falkland Islands, where . her new husband was an accountant. •. Lapsley's childhood was particularly happy, and he STOP PRESS and his two brothers retained a strong affinity with the Attention servicemen who attended islands. He would later be vice-president of the Falkland Islands Committee in London, and a director Officer Cadet School, Portsea. of the Falkland Islands Research and Development If you wish to obtain a very Association from 1978 to 1983. Lapsley was appointed OBE in 1944. CB in 1966 and high quality OCS tie at a KBE in 1969. very reasonable price, He maf!'ied, first, in 1942, Jean Maclvor who died in 1979; they had a son and a daughter. He married sec• Contact Cllve Dutton on: .. ondly, in 1980, Millicent Rees (nee Beadnell). (09) 298 8624 (p) Courtety: The Weeltly TeJesnph Llatenlng Poat-Autumn 1996 - · P•g• 45 "LoQ.k, Tom and I -love this home but its just too much for us and we're .not ready for a retirement home."

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Page 46 - Uetenlng Poet- Autumn 1996 -. IIAa TO TH tt: BRAVE BYOKI The little Byoki Mant began life proudly as the cargo with a gap in the centre of the floor to allow lis to squat ship Canadian Pnncess . Then she became the Potomac high above the ocean. Definitely 'Not wanted on Voyage' and, finally, ·battered and unlovely, the Rushin Maru. were the lice and bugs that came aboard with us in But to the P.OWs who sailed in her on her last eventful Singapore. We didn't like the heat and sweat in the voyage from Singapore to Moji in Japan, she will always holds. They did. They bred as only lice and bugs ~· be the Byoki Maru , the 'sick ship'. She was one of us. Our convoy crossed to Borneo and followed the coast Displacing between 3,000 and 4,000 tonnes, she had north, hugging a chain of islands until we reached been bombed and burnt out in Singapore. Refloated, she Manila. There we waited for three weeks with only an had been patched up to carry cargo to Japan, mostly in occasional break on deck from the stinking holds. On 9 the form of 1200 POWs who had worked on the Burma• August we left and it seemed only a few hours before the Thailand railway and were now to be slave labour in waiting American subs struck. A large freighter ahead of Japan. us was blown clean out of the- water. A tanker ~ suffered The Byoki was not a comforting sight. There was only the same fate. The last ship in the convoy also· went a gaping hole where the bridge had been and the deck down. had dropped about 15 inches. The Japanese skipper was It wasn't until an international POW reunion in 1986 to direct her course from a small box-like cabin built over gr~t that we heard why the Byoki might have been spared. A the stem. Two steel girders welded to the deck were former US submarine commander told about an attack all that kept her from breaking in two. There were no on a convoy near Manila in August 1944. After a look hatch covers for the two forward holds, with 400 POWs at a 'cruise' ship that may have been ours, he told his in each exposed alternately to rain and the tropical sun. men not to waste a torpedo on 'that wreck' and to hit The toilets were wooden boxes lashed to the ship's side the next ship. It was surely our convoy and 'that wreck' was surely the Byoki Maru. Some would say it was just luck. Believers say it was a miracle. Some days later we were hit by the typhoon. In the early morning when I was allowed on deck to go to the The Voyage toilet, the sea was dead calm but the crew were lashing of the down everything in sight. I was told there was 'big wind coming'. Within a few hours what had been a mill pond ByokiMaru was a violent, turbulent ocean raging against everything 4 July· 8 Sepeember 1943 in it. The Japanese skipper, generally conceded to be a J~Duu ...... great seaman, rah before the storm to reach the lee of some small islands. There were no longer guards and prisoners; everybody was working for survival, feeding the boilers with all the coal they could take. At one stage a series of giant waves 50 to 60 feet high, kep ~ the Byoki on her side. But the battling ship righted herself The l'bilippines and pushed on to sail into calm seas once again. There the Byoki sprang a kindly leak in her thin plates. lt was· a heaven-sent opportunity for men stink• ing to high. heaven to bathe in the stream of sea water jetting high into the forward hold before the leak was reluctantly reported. The ship's carpenter arrived with a piece of 4" x 4" timber which he whittled down to a point and hammered in. ·we made our first landfall in Japan at Kagoshbna on the southern end of Kyushu on 3 September, five years to the day since war had been declared. Five days later we reached our destination, the port of Moji. It was 8 September 1944, less than a year before the Japanese surrender. So ended the death defying voyage of the Byoki Maru. And may God bless all who sailed in her. 'BANJO' BINSTEAD Listening Poet- Autumn~~- Page 47 WABSL ~~ BOWlS "~'- • SECI'ION ;•

WEDNESDAY 24 ~ APRIL 1996 The 29th annual interstate Bowls Carnival took place in 1.30 PM Sydney from 27 December 1995 to 6 January 1996. On our second day there we visited Tuggera Lakes where a service was held at the War Memorial, and the first test SCHOOL CHILDREN'S SERVICE held in the afternoon. Two tests were played at in the presence of Blacktown, followed by two at Dee Why where the finals were played. NSW was successful in winning the HIS EXCELLENCY, Jack Hamilton VC Fours. WA did not fare too well but finished third in the Or Sydney Krantz Fours. · THE GOVERNOR OF WESTERN The Australian National RSL Fours was the other event AUSTRALIA, known as the Sir Arthur Lee Fours. Thirteen WA teams took part and most of us had to play in the rain. Only MAJ. GEN. MICHAEL JEFFERY one WA team made it to the semi final: Jim Weaver, AO MC skipper; Alan Little, third; Fred Birnie, second and Ted * Philp, lead. Owing to inclement weather it was impossi, ble to play the finals of the National .Fours. However, WEDNESDAY 24 APRIL 1996 those who did reach the finals will be rewarded with what is to be the Semi,Finalists Medal, 1996. 5.30 PM The 1996,97 Carnival will be held in Perth with Doug Piggot, National President and Dudley Docking, SUNSET SERVICE National Secretary. Congratulations are extended to those members Night Vigil and, with a strong Committee behind them, we are confident it will be just as successful as the * one in 1990. This will be the 30th year since the WA RSL Bowls was THURSDAY 25 APRIL 1996 founded. As we are all getting older, we are calling on Vietnam Veterans to take on bowls and help keep the 6.15 AM flag flying. TEDPHILP DAWN SERVICE Hon State Secretary ANZAC DAY MARCH AND SERVICE BELLEVUE RSL, PURTON PLACE, BELLEVUE REUNIONS 11.45 AM PARADE FORMS 11.50 AM MARCH OFF NO 25 (CITY OF PERTH) SQUADRON NOON SERVICE No 25 (City of Perth) Squadron will be holding its annual reunion on Anzac Day at the WA Fire Brigade Headquarters, Hay Street East, Perth at 12.30pm. Contact: BRUCE WEBER 31 Ireland Way Bassendean 6054 Phone: 377 2103 Filx: 302 0377 Internet: bweberaperth.DIALix.oz.au BRUCEWEBER Page 48 - Llatenlng Post- Autumn 1996 VETERANS' AFFAIRS

· VETERAN 'CASE MANAGEMENT' A FIRST FOR AUSTRALIA

LMOs the key to Comprehensive Care rruxlel himself a physician, said veterans welcomed the agree ~ ment between the Federal Government and the AMA. The Repatriation Comprehensive Care Scheme "LMOs are the lynchpin of medical care for the vete~an (RCCS) commenced 1 January 1996. Backed by the community," said Maj. Gen. james. "The establishment Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and of this new scheme ensures their high quality services the Australian Association of General Practitioners, the will continue to be available to the ve terans and war scheme enables local doctors to take greater responsibil~ widows who need them." ity for the total health care of their veteran and war widow patients. It particularly benefits the 10 per cent of chronically ill veterans and war widows who account for 50 per cent of NEW PAYPHONES A spending on health by the Department of Veterans' Affairs. BOOST FOR THE DEAF The new arrangements enable doctors registered under the Comprehensive Care Scheme to prepare and moni~ Telstra Payphone Services has begun a new national tor an annual health care plan for their Repatriation programme to install 50 special Payphone patients with chronic or complex conditions. Teletypewriters (TrY) to assist the deaf, hearing and Now that it has secured AMA suppon, the Government speech impaired community. is inviting all general practitioners, including the 15,000 The Minister for Communications and the Arts, already registered as Local Medical Officers (LMOs), to Michael Lee, said the expansion of the program would participate in the RCCS. give even more people with a disability the opportunity Under the Repatriation Comprehensive Care Scheme: to communicate with family and friends or businesses ~ the Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) is when they are out and about. analysing information on veterans with multiple "The placement of the 50 new TTYs has been deter~ illness or chronic disorders to help identify those mined in close consultation with the peak disability who can benefit from focused care management groups and local government organisations," Mr Lee and the preparation of an annual health care plan; said. "The expansion of the TrY network will target ~ LMOs can nominate for DVA approval other vet~ major regional centres where special needs have been eran patients who would benefit; identified. In addition, capital city areas not included in ~ LMOs are paid a fee of $108.20 to prepare an the initial rollout of 20 Payphone Teletypewriters late annual health care pisln for each such last year will also benefit from new facilities. The second Repatriation patient, enabling them to benefit stage of the program will bring the total number of from close monitoring of their health outcomes Payphone TrY units to JO nationwide," Mr Lee added. and better co~rdination of their treatment. National General Manager, Telstra Payphone Services, ~ the chronically ill veteran's own doctor becomes, · janet Sayer said customers using a Payphone TTY corn~ in effect, their 'case manager' responsible for man~ municate directly with other TrY residential or business itoring their health, conducting regular reviews phones using a keyboard and visual display screen and and co~ordinating their treatment, including ser~ can link to ·normal, voice only phones via the new vices provided by allied health professionals, such national ~:elay service. . as podiatrists and dieticians. · Already there are more than 10,000 TrY telephones ~ LMOs will also co~perate on other measures to operating in homes and offices across Australia and improve patient management, such as arranging when combined with the Australian Communication specialist appointments and transport for veterans Ex ~ hange's relay s~rvice funded by the Federal when required. Government, the disabled communities access to The Minister for Veterans' AffaiJ;s, Con Sciacca said: "It telecommunication services is continually increasing. achiev~ments is fitting that these were made in the year In addition to Payphone TrYs, there are more than when, as a nation, we have celebrated the 50th anniver~ 1000 payphones modified for people with special needs, sary of the end of World War II through the :Australia such as people in wheelchairs, with limited mobility or Remembers' commemorative program. with limited visibility. National RSL President, Major General 'Digger' james, Listening Post- Autumn 1996- Page 49 MEADOW SPRINGS VETERAN$.' -AFFAQlS We wish to welcome Mr Ralph Lunay, who has been appointed Manager. He replaces Kath Lawrie, our resi, APPOINTMENT dent/staff co,ordinator, who resigned due to her hus, Mr Derek Robson band's transfer over East. Ralph is no stranger to the National Secretary Home as he used to be a popular member of staff with The Returned and Services League of Australia Ltd the residents of Mt Lawley. He _left there to study to fur, National Headquar~ers Constitution Ave ther his career in caring for aged and disabled persons. Campbell ACT 2601 We wish him well and are confident that he will be a great asset to the organisation. Dear Mr Robson GERALDTON I am writing ro inform you that on the recommendation The Geraldton Village is nearing completion and we of the Minister for Justice the Qovemor~eneral has hope all units will be sold by the end of April. appointed Or Patrick Desmond Lynch ro the The Community ~ged Care Packages have pro, Administrative Appeals Tribunal for a period of 5 years gressed slowly, with four in place. Some of the teething and assigned him to the Veterans' Appeals Division. problems have been resolved, and with better knowl, JACK NICHOLSON edge of the system should progress well. This is an Courts and Tribunals (Administration) Section avenue of care which will be more prominent in the December 1995 future. KEN MURPHY T.K. LLOYD Deputy Chairman Veterans' Affairs Committee CAN YOU HELP? Dec;em ber 1995 G.STRONACH A 1939,45 Star was found at the Mandurah Primary School and carries the inscription G. Stronach WAR VETERANS' WX13022. A n otice has appeared in the local paper about it, and I have contacted the Department of HOMES Veterans' Affairs. Their records show a George Stronach, born in 1913, but his address is unknown. MTLAWLEY WALLY HOLDING 16 First Avenue We would like to welcome Mr Percy White who has Mandurah recently joined our Board of Management. Percy will be Tel: (09) 535 4593 · assisting management in the daily running of the Home. Recently we saw a dedication by Stephen Smith, HONG KONG MUSEUM OF HISTORY Federal Member for Perth, of a plaque honouring the The Hong Kong Museum of History is anxious to ladies and gentlemen of the War Veterans' Homes Raffle launch an oral history p~oject to collect personal Committee. The dedication took place at an afternoon accounts of the experience in Hong Kong during World tea at Mt Lawley and was attended by the Raffle War II. The Project will evolve around the Battle of Committee and Home's management. We are now in the Hong Kong in 1941 and life in POW camps as a result. process of preparing our 1996 raffle and your continued If anybody is wilting to share their experiences with support will be most appreciated and very much needed. the younger g~nerations of Hong Kong, would they As you are a ll aware, fundraising is not an easy task please contact Bill Sherriff, 47· Haldane Road, Niddrie and we have to give special thanks to Ann Keynes for Vie 3042; phone: (03) 9379 4430. her idea of collecting corks. Various people wish to buy these corks for between $2 and $2.50 per kilo, and the SUBSCRIPTIONS TO demand is getting greater than the supply. So if anyone THE LISTENING POST can assist, please let us know. We thank those who have already supported us. The monies received will be used The Listening Post is available on ro make purchases that will benefit the residents. private subscription at $10 per year We would also like to thank those who have donated (4 copies) including poswge. videos, especially Bunbury Sub,Branch, whose efforts Delivery can be arranged by Writing to: have been greatly appreciated by the residents of both Mt Lawley and Meadow Springs War Veterans' Homes. The State Secretary The formation of the ESO Forum Group for Veterans' Ret~rned and Services League Care should prove to be quite advantageous to the War .,PO Box Y3023 Veterans' Home upgrading. It now seems positive that St Georges Terrace East Howes Wing will be upgraded in the very near future. Perth WA 6823 Page 50-Listening Post- Autumn 1996 :::::::::::::::::::::::::;:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;!;!;!;!:!;!:!;!:!:!:!::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;:::::::::::::::::::: STATE PRESl»ENT'S MESSAGE I commend to · all members the State President's Message in the Summer 1995 Listening Post. Take the trouble to look it up and perhaps read it again. And think! H. FINKELSTEIN 15 Jukes Way Glendalough. 6016 AUST. NATIONAL FLAGASSN In my four plus years as President of this Association I have, from time to time, been dismayed and plain bloody angry (!) at people and/or organisations whom one would rightly expect to support the Flag but who hold back - timidity, fear, excuses etc. But not so The Listening Post. Throughout my incumbency you have been uniformly and helpfully supportive. In particular your most recent edition drew a better-than-expected At t~ urweilin« of m~. response from both city and country for which I am the Tom Stm-cwich VC more than grateful. Perhaps I should explain that the widely-dispersed country population had been a tough TOM STARCEVICH, VC nut for us, although most prospective. I refer to the article on the unveiling of the statue of Would you be so kind as to pass on my sincere grati• Tom Starcevich, VC, in the spring edition of The tude to The Listening Post.. Listening Post 1995. We who are left attended that cere• PHILIP KENNEDY mony and wish to extend our thanks to the people of President Grass Patch. Enclosed. are two photos and my write-up Australian National Flag Association- WA (Inc.) in _the Battalion Sit Rep, a South Australian battalion. "After arriving home on 23 June from Adelaide, we MORESBY ARMY had to pack up again on the 27th to travel to Grass Patch. On the coach were Eric Treloar, Bill Mitchell, NEWS-SHEET Bill' E.oberts, Pat 1\enny, ] im Noble, Basil Beton, Ken I recently came across a not very well preserved c.qpy Smith and myself. 'Henry and Thelma Noble travelled of Maresby Anny News Sheet of late 1942. Perhaps we down on their. own with their caravan. The trip to may not have all shared the same sentiments, but the Esperence took 10 hours; there we were picked up by the attached article may be of some interest to your readers. school bus and taken to Grass Patch, 80km north, arriv• It possibly covers the thoughts of many bored and home• ing at 7.30pm where the community ~ad tea ready for us sick young soldiers around the Moresby area at that at the Tavern. Later we were billeted out to two farms. time, and could jog some memories. "Next morning the main organiser, George Andrews, The journal is still very well received and I look for• with whom Bill Roberts and I were staying was up at ward to each edit.ion. Keep up the good work. 6.30am for the final preparations. Then at 11am was the ERIC STALLARD unveiling of the statue of Tom Starcevich, attended by Ikon Court some 450 _people. Our President, Eric Treloar, gave an 14/6 Coolgardie Avenue accurate speech of Tom's action which held the crowd East Fremantle 6158 spellbound and brought many tears; he won the hearts of Tel: 319 1914 all. Afterwards it was photos and stand-up room only in NB: The article, titled Goodbye to all That , is printed in the bar. Everyone was trying to talk to us - what a wel• the general section of the journal. come! W~et Tom's brothers, nieces, nephews etc. and Editor had a BBQ at night with all the family. These people Listening Post-Autumn 1996-Page 51 . . Letters·- to.the Editor cont. worked fo'r four years to prepare this day, which was very be members of the RSL. They may include people who well organised. To all the people of Grass Patch we owe have now moved from the district, and any parents, a debt of gratitude for· what you have done - to give such grandparents and others (including deceased persons) of a welcome and going so fa ~ in honouring our Victoria whom you may know. Details, including full name, ser• Cross wi£l!ler. The month ofjune._1995 was better than vice number, branch of service, address at enlistment winning a Grand Final! Best wishes and good health to date and dates of service should be sent to the Secretary, all." Applecross RSL Sub-Branch, PO Box 396, Applecross WALTER j HUGHES . WA 6153. Secretary MAX REYNOLDS 2/43rd Battalion Association (WA Branch) Secretary 20 Aberle Street Hamilton Hill6163 THANK YOU I would like to express my thanks to the Scarborough RSL gentlemen who attended my husband's funeral and placed poppies on his casket. He would have appreciat• ed this very much, as I and all our family did. It gave a great deal of meaning and respect to his passing. YVONNE STURMER (Wife ofPatrick Sturmer who passed away 25 November 1995) 19 Thor Street Innaloo WA 6018 A NIGHT TO REMEMBER In 1943 I was a British airwoman (WAAF) at RAF Station Skeabrae in the Orkney Islands. Number 354 Squadron joined us. It was the only all-Australian Spitfire squadron in the UK. One of the pilots and I fell in love and. were together for 15 months before we all went to southern England to prepare forD Day. We were on separate stations. From D Day, 6 June 1944, the. squadron was in con• tinuous action and· many were killed. I received a mes• sage that my friend had been badly wounded in Normandy and was in a hospital in southern England. I got a 48 ¥,ur pass and hitch-hiked across country to see him. The hospital was a clearing station but he was in the w;;1rd with others who were too badly injured (most of them burnt like him) to be moved. I sat beside him all the weekend, then had to return to camp. Months later The Tom Starcevich VC memorial at Grass Patch. he was sent to Brighton which was the stagi.Og post for Australians being sent home. I went to see him to say 'goodbye' and that was the end for us. · In 1949 I migrated to Australia with the man I final• The Applecross Sub-Branch wishes to ascertain the ly married and the years passed. I raised a family (one of names of all those residents of the City of Melville (and whom served with the SAS in Vietnam). My husband as previously administered by the Melville Road Board, died. I was alone. Shire Town of Melville) who joined the ' armed forces One night this year I was watching TV, decided to go this century. The purpose is to collate an Honour Roll of to b'ed, switched off the TV and walked out of the room. all persons from Melville who have served at times of Something made me turn back, switch on the TV and an conflicts in which Australia has been involved. The Australia Remembers segment appeared on the screen. prime requisite is that they were Melville residents when llhere to my surprise and utter shock, was my wartime they joined the Services, and would now be qualified to boyfriend speaking about his days as a fighter pilot dur- Page 52- Listening Post-Autumn 1996 I .I Letters to the Editor cont.

ing the war. (I discovered later that Channel 9 TV had child, I was told that this emblem/badge was compiled asked the NSW Branch of the Air Force Association and used throughout the Boer War. · who should be featured on the segment on the Air Force Suddenly, in the 1940s, with the arrival of the United aitd they had suggested my friend.) · States troops in the-Pacific War Zone, American n ews• Having been a widow for many years, I took a chance men for the first time referred to Japan as the Land of the and con"t:acted him, only to discover that he was alone. Rising Sun, whereas we all know that the Japanese flag He did not even know that I was in Australia and had represents a full or risen sun. tried to find me in England some years ago. He now lives Finally is it possible for you to include in your publi• in New South Wales. We had an emotional reunion cation a series of short articles (especially to be copied and, on 11 November, went together to the Calvacade by our high schools) on the historical sequence covering · at the Entertainment Centre. As he said that night: the answers to the queries I have raised. "Well, we started the war together and we are finishing Dr KEITH CURRIE it together". That is what that night meant to us. ex-F/LT, Navigator, Bomber Command We want to say 'thank you' to all of those responsible 121 Lisadell Street · for such a wonderful show. Every situation during the Floreat Park 6014 war was covered and presented in an unforgettable way. Tel: 387 4347 It was indeed a night to remember. NB: Thank you for your letter and comments. The RENE CALLAGHAN Editorial Committee is dedicated to the aim of produc• 17A Leanna Way ing a journal to meet the expectations of our readers. Ardross 6,153 Your request for information concerning the supply of the Australian Flag and flag-poles has been discussed THE AUSTRALIAN FLAG with the Australian Flag Association who will have, by First of. all may I heartily congratulate you on your now, provided you with the infonnation you seek. The outstanding summer 1995 issue of the The Listening Post. Association would welcome similar enquiries on (09) I admit that at my age of 82 years, it takes me a fairly 385 6131 or (09) 386 7714. long time to read it, but there are two -sections to which The other matters you raised have been noted for I would like to make reference. future consideration. 1. Regarding the defence of our wonderful Australian EDITOR flag, is it possible for the RSL to advertise which local firms sell suitable and reasonably cheap "flag poles and RSL GOLF CLUB the Australian flag? · When I was a child, in Fremantle, between the two world wars, the flying of the flag on special occasions was a common feature in our homes. As far as my memory recalls, perhaps on a ratio of one in three or one in five MEMBERS houses. Then you could raise a challenge to remaining ex-ser· WANTED ( vicemen and women throughout the State Ito erect a pole and fly a flag in their front gardens, especially for JOINING FEE ZERO the next Anzac Day. I am going to make the effoit myself. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION ZERO 2. Regarding the use of the title 'Land of the Rising Our club is now up and running. Sun', in one of your next editions would it be possible to · We play every Thursday on public golf include or repeat an earlier article r:egarding the history courses where pensioner discount rates of this title? apply. All you pay for is the game you · Again in my early Childhood in this Sta te, especially play, after World War 1, I was taught to believe that one of average cost being $4 to $5 per day. the original badges, worn by Australian soldiers serving If you would like to join us in. a very overseas, consist~ of the emblem depicting the 'Rising . enjoyable day's golf, regardless of Sun' with the 'rays' emanating o4t te form a 'Fan of how well or how badly you play. Bayonets'. Therefore, the AIF emblem was seen to rep· resent the 'Land of the Rising Sun' or the 'Land for Please contact Dave McCielland Future DevelopmCQ.t and Opportuni_.ty'. on 448 3812 day or night. LI have not checked historical records but, again as a Listening Post- Autumn 1996-Page 53 ,. - BOOK Rti!V IE:WS. 16. THE TRENCHES IN TilE SKY .remind ourselves that there can be no half-hearted com· by Dan Conway, MBE, DFC. mitment of Australian forces in any operational role • Australians have been well served by the volumes of peacekeeping or otherwise. They must go well trained, official histories of World War II. Commendable though well equipped, well supplied and well supported. these volumes may be, they can only present the broad Dan Conway is to be commended for sharing his canvas of the conflict with occasional interjections illus• experiences with us. This book is a worthy memorial to trative of distinguished service, bravery or those with whom he served and their contribution to inspired lead• recomm~nded ership. We ar.e fortunate therefore that on the 50th ultimate victory. It is reading for all anniversary of the end of hostilities, several of those who Australians who desire to understand the true dimen· served shared their experiences with us by distilling their sions of duty, honour and service to country. recollections into book form. The book is published by Hesperia..9 Press, 1995. What sets Dan Conway's book in a class of its own is ROBERT MITCHELL its depth and breadth coverage of an aspect of the war not widely known by many Australians. The role of RAF THE RISE FALL AND Bomber Comm'and, in which many young Awitralians REGENERATION OF THE served, has been the subject of much historical revision 217TII FIELD AMBULANCE, of late. We must remember, however, without the bene• AIF, IN WORLD WAR D fit of hindsight, that for all but the last one and a half Compiled by Gordon Hoff years of the war, Bomber Command conducted the only This unit was formed in WA early in 1940 under the significant offensive operations directly against Nazi command of Lt.Col. L.E. LeSouef, and at departure for Germany. The material and morale value of Bomber the Middle East on 22 Seprember 1940 consisted of Command operations at the time cannot be diminished 246 WX personnel. This is their story. by later claims of terror bombing, excessive casualties and The unit was part of the 19th Australian Infantry personal aggrandisement of the part of commanders. Brigade, 6th Division, AIF, and was involved in the There is virtually no aspect of the life of a Bomber Division actions in Libya, Greece and Crete. On 1 June Command pilot that Dan Conway does not touch. From 1941 about 150 members were taken prisoners of war on a social historian's, mechanic's, military technologist's the south coast of Crete. The unit was re-constituted and aviation enthusiast's perspective, Dan has some• with about 60 original members who had been returned thing to offer for all. He has distilled the flavour and the to Egypt from Crete and the remaining strength being essence of a Bomber Command pilot's experience· the made up with men from various states. After return to exhilaration, the fear, the hard work, comradeship, hos· Australia and service and training in the Northern pitality off duty, technical innovation, tactics and the Territory and Queensland, the unit went into action strain of continuing operations. again in New Guinea and was in the thick of it in the Our appreciation of the air war would be incomplete Aitape and Wewak campaign. without the feel and the texture of experjence which A resident of Adelaide, Mr Gordon Hot£ was with the Don has shared with us. He also gives us some issues of unit in the second phase of its activities, and felt that contemporary relevance. The Empire 'Air Training actions extending over such a wide area should be Scheme did not produce pilots overnight. In Dan's case recorded. He has used a book written by Colonel it was two years before he arrived on operational duty. LeSouef, To War Without a Gun, published in 1980, and Current defence planners and a concerned public should another book by Private Edgar Randolph, An bear this in mind as air training infrastructure is dimin- Unexpected Odyssey, published in 1981, for much of the ished or civilianised. · information. covering the Middle East and Europe. The · The other important lesson is that any military action unit rolls, movement and embarkation orders were care• carries with it the potential for casualties. At the start of fully copied from Army records by the original World War II, a commitment to the air.war was favoured Commander of 'N Company, Major F. Wallace. Various by the Prime Ministers of several Commonwealth coun• mem~ers have subscribed some of their recollections, tries. This was' in the belief that the experiences of and this is very much the story of men in action. World War i would prevail in the new conflict and that The book is in hard cover with dus.t jacket and ha,s the vast casualties of land conflict could be avoided. As numerous photos of people and places. Copies are avail· it turned out service in Bomber Command as aircrew able from Hal Finkelstein, 15 jukes Way, Glendalough had a 21/2 odds against surviving a-.full operational tour. 6016, phone (09) 444 0328, at $24.95. Postage in the As we reflect on the sacrifices made by the classmates metropolitan area is $4.60 and beyond $4.80. and service comrades· of.Dan Conway, we should also H. FINKELSTEIN Page 54- Llstenlnc: Post- Autumn 1996 158 340,000 killed, aerial blitzes, street fighting, rescue !Jiml~?~ attempts and the final surrender with 90,000 men, 60,000 By John Bennett vehicles, 1,500 tanks and 600 field guns captured. John Bennett is to be congratulated on the meticulous .Both sides fought for each street, each house, each research in obtaining the full records on all matters that apartment building, each cellar, for stairwells and went into the writing of this outstanding book. Very lit· trenches with a ferocity which knew p.o mercy. Losses on de has been written about the operations of night-fight• both sides were appallingly high. The German 6th Army er squadrons, s0 this is a book to be read. alone lost 38,943 men and 1,068 officers between 21 It covers not only the four years of the operations of August and 16 October, 1942. the RAAF's only night-fighter squadron which operated When Hitler imposed his strategy of 'all or nothing', in Europe, but also the RAF expansion in the leadup to he was obviously under pressure for time and obsessed by the outbreak of World War Il, the development of radar the threat, which he himself had courted, of an technology, a nd its operation, not only with 456 approaching war on two fronts. Squadron but with the RAF as a whole. Bennett also In the midst of the offensive, Hitler ordered the re• covers the German radar operations as well, when each deployment of two particularly combat-proven divisions side endeavoured to jam out the other. to the western front in France and even the removal of 456 Squadron RAAF, over four years from 1941 to the the 11th Army, with its numerous troops and powerful end of the war, flew varied operations from night fighter artillery element, to. the northern fr<'nt. Naturally, this ops over the UK • as far south to the Spanish border, method of leadership and the unilateral decisions by the north to Norway • over the front lines of Normandy • 'Supreme War Lord' were strongly opposed and heavily into Germany .to Berlin· and action against the V1 fly• criticised by his closest advisers. ing bombs. In the dreadful weather of the UK and This absorbing book is not a routine account of bat· Europe, . the pilots' ability, relying on instruments and tle, but a stunning review of the motivation, futility and radar, to stalk, identify and destroy enemy ~ ircraft, and misplaced pr~ciple~ in one of the greatest military then return to base, highlights the outstanding perfor• defeats of this century. mance of this squadron. Published by the highly acclaimed Arms and Armour The ~k contains 214 pages, large format, 60 photos Press of London, this book is distributed in Australia by from private and official sources, 11 appendices, index; Capricorn Link, PO Box 6651, Baulkham Hills, NSW, hardcover dust-jacket. IS,BN 1-875593-10-1. RRP is 2153. RRP $39.95. $40.00; available post free in Australia from the pub• VICJEFFERY lisher, Banner Books, PO 937, Belconnen 2616, tel: (06) 258-6021) (ax: (06) 258-6021, or Napo\eon's Military TROPICAL BOUGAINVILLE Booksho~ in the capital cities. BOBJONES MEMORIES by AK McDonald STALINGRAD: MEMORIES This book is in two sections. The first outlines the . AND . autho(s experiences, particularly from a personal com• ,, .REASSESSMENT& munication level, whilst serving on Bougainville. It reveals a person who is deeply conscious of the feelings by Joachim Wieder and Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel of other people and contributes to the better under• First published in 1962 as "Stalingrad Und Die standing of other races. It does suffer, in the opinion of Verandwortung Des Soldaten'!, this book quickly became a the reviewer, from a certain disjointedn~ which could classic and was published in many Euro~ countries be improved upon without much effort. including Spain, Italy, France, and Hungary and was the The second portion is that of the two appendices first West.German book to be published in the Soviet dealing with tropical medicine and sani Union. tation. This I found most interesting and probably of almost text-book . As time passed and more research into Stalingrad quality and of great interest to laymen and professionals brpught fresh revelations, author Joachim Wieder, a for· alike, particularly those who are working in Third World mer soldier and survivor of Russian POW camps, felt the conditions among indigenous people. need to reassess his earlier views resulting in an updated It is recommended reading · 1993 edition. · for those interested in: . improvement of general prevention of spread of In 1995 this work was translated into English by disease in tropical areas and among Helmut Bqgler, finally giving historians indigenous the opportunity peoples to benefit from this absorbing evaluation which not only . ·social relationships with Third World peoples, and spans the mili~ ~ry problems, but funclarOentally questions . general awareness of totally different the political and moral places and responsibility of the military lead• conditions. ership. This book is bound in a cream semi hard-back cover Stalingrad • a bloody battle waged over five and a half with green spine and a 'tropical' flash-outline of the con• months with 500,000 soldiers inJolved and more than tents on the front cover. It contains a generous number of Listening Post- Autumn 1996 - Page 55 clear black and white photos taken of the indigenous peo~ LONE EVADER · ple and the· terrain which will enhance the interest of the by Ted Coates reader. The book retails at $30.00. Enquiries to Ken When the RAAF Pilot Sergeant Ted Coates took off McDonald (09) 474 2652 or The Manager on (09) 367 for his last raid on Germany, little did he know what 9880. the next few months had in s'tore for him , by morning DON MEREDITH he was sleeping in a French forest, his Wellington A WALK IN TilE JUNGLE bomber burning in the distance and two qew dead. by Neil Roberts During the· following months he walked, cycled and This young man was born in a small Victorian coun~ travelled by rail with brave French civilians helping try town during the 1950s and, as a child, he was fasci~ him to reach Spain. · nated by large parades and brass and highland bands. His Coates had a wounded leg, was in pain and, with greatest love of all, the military type parades, was the winter approaching, suffered from cold and wet condi~ Anzac Day march which was one of the reasons he tions. Coates became so 'cocky' that he began visiting decided to enlist in the Army. His book is very light and barbers and, later, partaking glasses of vermouth in vil.' easy to read and gives one a bird's eye view of a young !age cafes. Once, he even contemplated tr~velling infantry soldier's life, from his enlistment into the Army through Paris.to take in the sights. Through grit and through the various stages of his training, and his service determination and with no help from the ' under ~ in Vietnam. ground', he eventually made his way to Spain and His story struck me as being down to earth with no returned to England. frills, and at no time did he try to glorify any of the This book is a fine study of human nature as one lone events which took place during his service. He served anq lonely man' dug deep into himself to make good his with ARll and B Coy 8RAR in Vietnam until he was escape. It is available from Australian Military History evacuated back to Australia with falciporum malaria. Publications, 13 Veronica Place, Loftus, NSW 2232, at Unfortunately, like many others from Vietnam, he is a cost of $20.00, including postage. having to fight the Department of Veterans' Affairs for recognition regarding his disabilities. Lwould recommend this book to those who are inter ~ ested in the thoughts and life of a digger who served in Vietnam. BOB (Sooty) SMITH WA SURGICAL BOOTMAKERS Specialising in: Orthopaedic.& Surgical Footwe~. Custom-made arch supports. Footwear· modifications to doctors' prescriptions. I Suppliers of: Kumfs, Adams, Halls, Allerton & SAME DAY WHILE Pedimate Shoes cAR I YOU WAIT SERVICE =~PARJC,;;;.______.t; 321 3359 -·oo. :7;~::. ·94 ~]r: ~~ ~ National Footw~ar wewrmON er .____ ...,.,.=PLB:-;;-:A~sE~sE;;:ND~ME= · M:-:o~RE~IN=Fo:::":R=-=M-=-A":"':n=o~N:-:----... ~paue~' ~~ Competition. ·Name: ...... : WA Surgical Bootm.ers, (B~een Murray st Address: ...... Shop 3 Sb~o Lane, Perth 6000 & ~ellington St) ...... Postcode......

Page 56-Listening Post- Autumn 1996 Lost Trails CAN YOU HELP? HMAS WATERIIEN Would you please check your membership records for A 416684 Sunday, 30 June 1996, will be the 55th anniversary of Fit Lt D.A.R. King who served in 51 Sqn . the sinking of HMAS Waterhen, the first RAN ship to Bomber Command flying Halifax aircraft based at be sunk by enemy action in World War II. This occurred Snaith, Yorkshire. If Mr King in the Mediterranean while Waterhen was on her way to is a member of your.Branch, it would be Tobruk during a 'Tobruk Ferry Run'. As the result of appreciated if you could advise me in order to re-address attacks by JU87 (Stuka) aircraft the ship' suffered a near a letter from Mr Emlyn-Jones. · miss and the engine-room was flooded. HMS Defender, Your co-operation is a'ppreciated. who was in company at the time attempted to tow her TOMROBERTS back to Alexandria but in the early hours of Monday, 30 Returned & Services League June 1941, she capsized and sank. GPO Box 303 I would like to hear from any of the Ship's Company Canberra ACJ 2601 with a view to arranging a reunion and a Church Service THE RAF REGIMENT in Sydney on Saturday/Sunday 29/30 June. If any mem• ASSOCIATION ber knows the present whereabouts of anyone who served in Waterhen could you please contact: I wish to contact former Ground Gunners and mem• MAXPECHEY, bers of the Royal Air Force Regiment and advise them of Unit 8, 99 Groom Street the existence of the Royal Air Force Regiment Hughes, ACf 2605 Association. Phone (06) 281 2405 I know that many former Gunners (or Rock Apes) emigrated after World War 11 and, although we have had CHARLES E. PENNELL - some success in finding members in Australia, I am sure WX32445 that there are many more. I would particularly like to bring to My husband's brother, Charles Ernest Pennell their attention to the new Depot of the RAF Regiment. WX32445, is coming over from NSW for this year's In 1994, after almost 48 years at Catterick, the Anzac Parade and would like to know if any of the men Depot of the RAF Regiment moved to its new home of Royal Air from the Special Mobile Force formed at Melville in Force Honington in Suffolk (wartime mem• bers would remember 1944 are here in WA. My brother-in-law is now 70 years the Depot as being at Belton Park, Grantham) of age and would very much like to meet some of his . mates on Anzac Day. A unique corps within the Royal Air Force, the RAF (Mrs) B. PENNELL Regiment was formed by Royal Warrant of His late 44 Klap Road Majesty King George VI on 1 February 1942 and, in South Yunderup WA 6208 brief, is responsible for the defence of RAF airfields and installations. In the 54 years since its formation the RAF O.J. WALTON Regiment has served and continues to serve in every As

ALBANY ed ·with the City of Belmont Community Service Award. RSL mem.bers and the public are invited to attend the His association with the RSL began in 1944 and he has unveiling of the South,East Asia memorial at a dedica, served on the State Executive for 35 years. A Life tion weekend, 17,18 August, 1996. The unveiling will Member of the League, he recently received the be carried out. by the Governor of Western Australia, Meritorious Medal, awarded by the National Executive. Major,General Michael jeffery. There is a word that goes with dedication, but has a Believed to be the first of its kind in WA. The memo, stronger sense of value, the word loyalty. You can't gain rial has been erected to commemorate those who served much without it. in South,East Asia conflicts since 1945, i.e. Korea, CARLF CAUBO Borneo, Malaya and Vietnam. Full details of this histor, Publicity Officer ~ ical event will be published in the winter edition of this magazine. BICTON-PALMYRA Telephone inquiries toTed Morgan (098) 416614 or The Sub,Branch can look back on 1995 with a great Snow Parker (098) 416887 (after 6pm; written inquiries deal of satisfaction. Much has been done to improve the ·to the Secretary, Albany Sub,Branch, PO Box 241, amenities for the members and hirers of the hall which Albany, WA 6330. has had electronic surveillance installed, with addition, YVONNE BOLTON al security for the members' amenities area. A new store, President room was built and a small bar,serving area constructed BEI.MONT for hirers' use. At present, extensive memorabilia cabi, nets are being installed in the members' section. Much As our Patron said in his new year's message: "1996 of the work was done by members, who are to be con, promises to be the most successful year our Sub,Branch gratulated for a fine effort. has experienced .. . there are so many dedicated willing on the social side, the Melbourne Cup Day attracted members volunteering for the specialised tasks and this, 110 people, who thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Our together with the support of our flourishing Women's annual dinner and Christmas social were outstanding Auxiliary, makes success inevitable . Achieving the tall successes; the introduction of a order of band this year proved a the best year on record is possible even though winner. it may be difficult to emulate.previous years. It is amaz, Membership has increased significantly and we look ing how overall so few can give so much". forward to 1996 with optimism. Visits from other Sub, The general trend in our Branch is that th~ mem .ber, Branch members would be very welcome. We are locat, ship is increasing, and it is good to see many new mem, ed at 28 Foss Street, Bicton, and our trading hours hers contributing. A large are storage shed, or garage, has 1600, 2030 hrs (Friday) and 1000, 1530 been erected, enabling hrs (Sunday). us to store mowers etc. Part of it R. WILLIS will be converted to an outside bar, and it is possible Committeeman there will be as much actiyity outside (bowls etc.) as inside the big hall, where another new airconditioning system has been installed: This was badly needed and If you are not coming to the luncheons on the second will be enjoyed by everyone. Friday of each month, you are really missing out. Funding for these projects comes largely from our Everyone is welcome and the price is only $5.00. It is benevolent Women's Auxiliary, and even the Bowls important to ring and book, because, as numbers have Club and our Recreation,and,Sport,Fishing,Club been around 70, our ladies need to know how many to donate money. cater for. Ne)V Committee members elected at the 19 Novem, Our current Committee is Chris Mills (President), her meeting are V. Putland, F. Byles, B. Wake, B. Ross Stewart (Snr Vice,President), Charles Ferguson Carvell, W. Greig, E. Worth, P. Gordon and M. {Jnr Vice President), Neville McWilliams (Secretary), Brennan. Bill Sharpe remains President, with the never, Ronald Tremble (Treasurer) and Bill Turner (our new t.iring Secretary Harold Hames still .at the helm. How Committeeman). Also active in the Sub,Branch are .the ladies of the W.omen"s Auxiliary are able to keep up Lesley Mills (Office Manager), Ross Stewart (Bar all the catering and work associated with our many func, Manager), Alf Mort (Membership Officer), Alf and Bob tions is beyond us. We are very sad to learn that Mrs. Mort (Hospital and Home Visiting), Ford Campbell ret~ed Beryl Rymer has as President owing to illness. (Policy Officer) Norm Eaton and Alf Mainstone Our State Executive member Mike Hall was present, (Trustees) Tom, Doug, Max and Nev (Welfare) and Listening Post- Autumn 1996-Page 59 Sub-Branch News cont. Gallery. Servicemen featured included 10 members of the Mallard family, including six brothers and a step• Trevor Kenny (Security Officer).· brother, as well as other relatives, includlng a son of one N ~w is the t!me to get Congress agenda items in for of the Mallard sisters and a son of one of the Mallard discuss1on at the next meeting. Don't forget we meet on brothers. All but one of the Mallard brothers served in the third Wednesday of every month. the army; the other was in the RAAR Also in the lime• ALF MAINSTONE light were army veteran Jim Joseph, who openeq the Trustee . Gallery Exhibition, Bill Carlyon, who saw many inmates of Changi die on the Burma railway, Ron Kelly of COMO HMAS Adelaide and HMAS Shropshire and Ron Harris, During 1995, the polished granite seats at the South who was killed in Vietnam. Perth Memorial gardens were dedicated. I represented Additions to our War Museum section at Birdwood our Sub-Branch at the Presidents' and Secretaries' meet• House include a bugle that Graeme Perham's uncle, ing at Anzac House, the Anzac Day Service and the Sergeant Roy Thompson, was carrying at Gallipoli when Christmas Function at Mt Lawley War Veterams' Home, he was killed alongside one of his brothers three days the Hollyw{)od Hospital Hall of Remembrance after the Gallipoli landing. It was allowed out of the Dedication, the City of South Perth Christmas function showcase for the Pilgrimage ceremony at the War and various school graduation nights. Cemetery. The Sub-Branch Citizenship Awards were presented Former Sub-Branch President, Allan Ellis, now RSL by the President at the following schools: War Veterans' Homes Manager, has announced that Coma High Nilar Nyunt and Peter Capitola $5,850 was raised towards the planned Community Coma Primary Jessica Van Ende Centre from the auction of seven vehicle numbers plates Collier Primary Ross George and Buffy McKinlay featuring the "Australia Remembers"' logo. "ON 1945" Penrhos LiZeng realised $3,400. A commemorative Anzac Day service will be held at A new Sub-Branch President will be elected at the the Memorial Gardens at the corner of South Terrace AGM, as Police Inspector Lee Townsend will become and Sandage Street on Thursday 25 April. Broome's new Police Chief. This Vietnam Veteran has Order of the service will be done an excellent job as our Sub-Branch leader. On site 7 .OOam Geraldton artist Allan Koba has donated an impres• Fall in 7.10am (in South Terrace) sive pencil drawing for inclusion in the War Museum Move off 7 .15am memorabilia at Birdwood House. The drawing, ''Valour Wreaths will be laid by the Presidents of the in the Mud" depicts an Australian soldier carrying a Kensington, Manning, South Perth and Coma Sub• wounded American over his shoulder in a mud patch. It Branches, other dignitaries and members of the public. was highly commended in the "Australia Remembers" At the conclusion of the service at 8.00am the City of An Exhibition organised by the Sub-Branch in associa• South Perth Council has kindly invited everyone to tion with the An Gallery and O'Connnor MHR Wilson morning tea at its offices. Tuckey. Alan also won one of Mr Tuckey's $500 prizes KEITH FRUIN for a pencil drawing

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Since my last report, we delivered Christmas parcels to hospitals, nursing homes and the residents of the War Veterans Home. Our visit to Hollywood Private Hospital, with gifts for all the ex~ servicemen and women there, was warmly received. Hollywood's Director ofClinical ' Servic~s. Julie~Anne Wark, said she was delighted to welcome the ladies. Thanks go to all Auxiliaries for their gei).erous dona~ tions which enable us to spread a little happiness among our sick ex~Service people. We accepted many invita~ tions from Auxiliaries, Sub~Branches and Kindred Organisations last year and thank everyone for their kindness and hospitality. Mrs Norris and I attended the War Veterans' Home Remembrance Day Ser\rice, and I placed a wreath on the War Memorial at the Service in Kings Park on behalf of all Auxiliaries. It was a privilege to present Certificates of Service to Mesdames D. Bruden and N. Dorrington of Bedford~ Morley Auxiliary and Mrs M. Fisher of Rivervale~ Carlisle Auxiliary. Congratulations to those three ladies. Executive members met recently to begin work for 1996. Hospital visiting has resumed and arrangements . for our State Conference are in hand. Please send in agenda items as soon as possible. Our best wishes to anyone who is on the sick list. M. TAYLOR

Abo.le: Hollywood patient Mr

Enle$t ("Dick") Read with ( RSL Women's Awdliary member Mrs Pat Barrel!.

l4t: RSL Wornm's Awdliary Immediate Palt President Mr~ Alluon Cayle;y with Mr Don Hams, af th:e 85th Squadron, and Mr K.S. ("Scan") Lance af the 2/4 Machine Gun Battalion.

Llttenlng Pott-Autumn 1996- Ptge 83. ABORIGINAL' .. & TORRES STRAIT ISLANI)ER ·vETERANS REMEMBERED. On 25th Aprll each year Anzac Day provides us with His Platoon Commander, Lieutenant Burns, later the opportunity to remember and give thanks to the thanked him personally for his effort in providing for many servicemen and women who gave their llves in the 90 men under his command. defence of Australia. The Mallard family had extensive military service. It is well documented that the tradition of Anzac was They were initially represented in the armed forces of born during World War I. It may not be as well known Australia during World War I and the tradition contin• that Aboriginal veterans served with distinction in ued through to Vietnam. Gavin confirmed that his rela• World War I and all subsequent conflicts if1volving tives served in each of the following conflicts as recog• Australian forces. Aboriginal veterans were involved in nised in an exhibition at the Geraldton Museum:- the Korean campaign during the early. 1950s. For some Alan Mallard (Deceased) Brother Vietnam reason the Korean campaign does not capture newspa• Alfred f-0,allard (Deceased Uncle WWII per headlines as easily as the two World Wars or Frank Mallard Cousin Malaya/Borneo Vietnam. Each year Anzac Day provides the opportuni• Frederick M;illard Father WWII ty for Korean veterans to march proudly alongside the Gavin survivors of better known conflicts. Mallard Korea George Gavin Frederick Mallard is an Aboriginal veteran . Mallard (Deceased) Uncle WWII who survived the Korean campaign. Born in Gordon Mallard (Deceased) Uncle WWII Northampton in 1930, as a young maR was employed on Herbert Mallard (Deceased) Uncle WWII various farms around the Northampton area. Horace Mallard (Deceased) Uncle WWI At an early age Gavin decided to continue a family Joe Mallard (Deceased) Uncle WWII tradition of serving with the Australian Army. He also After discharge from the army Gavin returned to had a strong belief that, as a soldier, the most effective Northampton and worked on farms between 1954 and way to protect Australia was to fight in foreign coun• 1959, and then as a plant operator for 10 years with the tries. That belief was strengthened after his experience Northampton Shire. He moved to Carnarvon in 1969 while training in post World War 11 Japan (in the early and worked with Wesfarmers and the Carnarvon Shire 1950s). It was here that he witnessed the devastation before his retirement in 1988. caused by the atomic bombs. He was even more con• Gavin unfortunately suffers from several medical con• vinced that battles be fought away from Australian ditions which resulted from his service in the Korean shores following operational service during the Korean War. The Department of Veterans' Affairs continues to conflict. Gavin served with 2 Battalion, Royal compensate him for his war injuries and has also provid• Australian Regiment. ed him with a Service Pension since }:te turned 60. On one occasion (July 1953) he recalls his platoon Gavin also receives full medical cover from the depart• being ordered to remain in an operational area for seven ment which proved beneficial last year when he was days. They actually spent 13 da~ there and took enemy admitted to Hollywood Private Hospital for treatment. shelling daily. Gavin volunteered to obtain flak jackets 6avin has also utilised other programmes adminis• for his platoon one evening when it was discovered they tered by t~e Departmen~of Veterans' Affairs, including had not been delivered. the Vietnam Veterans' Counselling Service. He is well The wet and wintry conditions were the least of aware of the service.s provided by the Department of Gavin's worries when the vehicle he was driving drew Veterans' Affairs; however other Aboriginal veterans enemy mortar fire; however luck was with him and he may not be as well informed. The Department is under• returned safely with the armoured vests. taking a project involving the identification and recog• I nition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Veterans. If you are (or· you know oO an ATSIC veteran, please contact the. Dept of Veterans' Affairs on 366 8500 (met• ropolitan area) or 1800 113304 (country areas). Gavin will attend an Anzac Day Service this year. He hopes he will be involved with the ceremonies in Perth, ' but will be content to march with other ex-Servicemen and women in his home town of Carnarvon. On Anzac Day 1996, Australian~ can be justifiably ~~~ proud of the contributions maoe over a period of 80 Korean tlderan Qatlin Mallard with Dept a{ Veterans Alfalrs ye.ars by Gavin, kis family and all Aboriginal veterans in Community Adtliser Debbie Hat. Debbie caught up with Qatlin the defence of Australia. on a recent tlisit eo Camarwn. TREVOR HOLFORD, OVA Page 64-Listening Post- Autumn 1996 UNIT ASSOCIATIONS

Box 405, Greenwood, 6024. Tel: 294 1054. Treasurer: Mrs D. Thomas, 41 Parkfield Road, Kelmscott 6111. Tel: 390 5762. Meets third Monday February, April (AGM), June, August, October, December at Belmont RSL Hall, Leake Street, Belmont, Bus 306 ex Perth Bus Station. AUSTRALIAN INTELLIGENCE ASSOCIATION (WA) President: Mr Ron Gregor, Tel: 537 6301. Vice P-resident: Mr Neil Chaplin, Tel: 307 1388 (W). Hon Secretary: Mr Steve Lamborn, Tel: 320 3444 (W), Box 244, North Perth 6006, Tel: 307 1388, Fax: 401 5236. Membership Officer: Mr Arthur Pickett, Tel: 367 9573. Property Manager: Mr Doug Child, Tel: 320 3444. Treasur.er: Mr Stan Bryant, Tel: 274 4128. AUSTRALIAN LEGION OF EX-SERVICEMEN AND Listening Post reminds all Unit Associations that it is the WOMEN (INC.) responsibility of each to keep its information t9 State State President: Mr L.C.W. Hutchings, 17 St Johns Headquarters for this section up to date. Court, Kingsley 6026, Tel: 309 9675. Meetings: State Changes to the office bearers must be in writing. Council meets 3rd Thursday of even m o nth~ at 13th Brigade Headquarters, lrwin Barracks, Karrakatta, at AIRCREW ASSOCIATION (W A BRANCH) 1.30 pm. Patron: Group Captain D Green· MSc. Chairman: George Oliver, 2 Ainslie Crt, Kardinya 6163. Tel: AUSTRALIAN SPECIAL AIR SERVICE 337 7163. Secretary/Treasurer: Uonel Pizzey, 11 ASSOCIATION (WA BRANCH) Windell St, lnnaloo 6018. Tel: 446 5751. Meetings: bi• President: Frank Sykes, Tel: 387 6251. Secretary: John monthly as arranged. Parrington, Tel: 401 2382. Meets last Friday each month at Campbell Barracks (The House) at 1800hrs. Ladies ALLIED MERCHANT SEAMEN ASSOCIATION most welcome. All correspondence to The House, No. 6 (WA BRANCH) Battery Road, Campbell Barracks 6010. President: Mr Maurice O'Rourke, 25 Lillian Avenue, AUSTRALIAN VETERANS AND DEFENCE Applecross 6153. Tel: 364 3837. Secretary: Mr Jack SERVICES COUNCIL (WA COUNCIL) AVADSC Edwards, 1 Cromer Road, Brentwood 6153, Tel: Chairman: Air Cdre S.W. Dallywater OBE AE (Retd) Tel: 364 8793. Treasurer: Mr A Edward~. 66 Wedgewood Drive, Edgewater 6027, Tel: 405 4261 . Meets 2.30pm (09) 383 3161 . Deputy Chairman: Mr L Hutchings. Anzac House, last Tuesday of each month. · Secretary/Treasurer: W01 B.F. Cooper CD AIMM, Tel: (09) 409 6577. All correspondence to the Secretary PO ASSOCIATION OF FIRST INFANTRY Box .14, Hillarys 6025. Meets on the first Wednesday of BATTALIONS (WA) the even months at the USI Rooms, lrwin Barracks, 211 st Aust lnf, 1 AAA also any Allied 1st 13n. President: Karrakatta at 1O.OOhrs. Mr Ken Alcorn, Tel: 249 9365. Secretary: Mr John AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S ARMY SERVICE Cunningham,. Tel: 1361 3483, 39 Planet St, Carlisle ASSOCIATION (AWAS) 6101. Contact the secretar:y for details of meetings etc. President: Mrs Alice Carry, OAM, qef: 361 2824. BRANC~ ASSOCIATION OF WRENS WA Secretary: Mrs M. Harvey, 1 Bradshaw House AFME, Meets fourth fhursday of each nionth, J 0.30am Anzac Bullcreek Drive, Bullcreek, Tel: 332 1305. Treasurer: House. President: Mrs Mary Tearne, 3/63 Corbel Street, Ruth Franklin, 126B Basinghall St., East Victoria Park Shelley 6148, Tel: 457 9059. Hon. Secretary: Mrs Mary. 6101 . Tel: 361 5157. Meetings: 1st floor, Anzac House Wyse, 1/16 Rambutan Place, South Lake 6164, Tel: on the 1st Thursday of the even months, 1 Oam-12 noon. 417 9877. · BCOF ASSOCIATION OF WA AUSTRALIAN ARMY TRAINING TEAM VIETNAM President: Mr D. Sexton, 13 Tillman PI, Wilson 6107. ASSOCIATION (WA BRANCH) · Tel: 451 3982. Secretary: Mr Doug Spice, 110 Daglish Presid.ent: Mr R.D. (B·ob). Smith, 1-4 Dundee Court, St., Wembley 6014. Tel: 381 5531 . Meetings: fourth Duncralg 6032, Tel: 448 5023. Secretary: Mr BG (Barry) Monday (lf Mon holiday meets next day - Tuesday) Long, 6 Hazeltine Court, Yanchep_6035, Tel: 561 1.741 . 11 .00am from Feb to Nov at Belmont RSL Hall, cnr Treasurer: Mr EO (Ed) Harkl_n, 5 Greenville Street, Great Eastern Highway and Leake St., Belmont. Bus Swanbourne 6010, Tel:· 383 36"30. Welfare Officer: Mr M~etings 306 new Bus Station or stand 45 cnr Pier St and St AD (Bob) Smith, as above. held after Anzac GeorgesTerrace. Day, AGM niid-June, birthday end of July and other as BLINDED SOLDIERS OF ST DUNSTANS shown in newsletters. _ WEST AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIAN EX-SERVICE ATOMIC SURVIVORS' President: Mr W.A. Waiters, RSL Retirement Village, ASSOCIATION.INCORPORATE!!> Third Avenue, Mandurah, 6210. Tel: 535 3602. Hon. President: Max Kimber, f Romford Place, Kingsley Secretary/Treasurer: Mrs P Dean, 31 Lamond St, 6026, Tel: 409 724.1. Secrefary: Mrs D. Jackson, PO Melville 6156, Tel: 330 5458. Meetings: 2nd Tuesday in l.lstenlng Post- Autumn 1996- Page 65 Unit Association& cont...

. February, April, June, August and October at 1.45pm, Meetings last Monday each month except January. Red Cross House, 110 Goderich St, ·East Perth Correspondence to the Secretary. · BRITISH EX.SERVICI;S ASSOCIATION INC. FLEET AIR ARM ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA President: Mr D.·Ciarke, Tel: 309 1046. Secretary: Mr President: Hilton Devoreux, 21 Regency _Drive, Thomlie K.R. Crane, Tel: 310 9099. Treasurer: Mrs J. Turnell, WA 6108. Secretary: Theo Bushe-Jones, 26 Baltic Tel: 497 3812. Meetings 3rd Tuesday of the month at Mews, Waikiki WA 6169, Tel: 527 9186. Meets second Anzac House, at 1.30pm. Correspondence to: 35 Wednesday of each month, 71 West Parade, East Westminster Ad , Learning 6149. Perth. All correspondence to PO Box 3886, Stirling CATALINA CLUB OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Street, Perth, WA 6849. State President: Mr lvan Peirce, 14 Abjornson St, GUARDS ASSO.CIATION OF WA Manning 6152-Tel: (09) 450 1231. All correspondence Presidentrrreasurer: Mr Peter Mulrennan JP, (IG) to Catalina Club of WA, Po Box 866, Canning Bridge . Tel: 443 8081. Secretary: Mr Andy Britton, 31 Backhouse 6153. General meetings 10am second Tryursday in Rd, Kingsley 6026, Tel: 409 9468 M~uch, June (AGM), September and December at . Welfare Officer: Mr Anzac House. Arthur Budgen (HG). Meeting: 1st Monday of the month at Anzac House, at 7.30pm (unless otherwise advised). DEFENCE RESERVES ASSOCIATION (WA BRANCH) HMAS BATAAN VETERANS' ASSOCIATION President: L.Col. (ret'd) P. Farrell RFD, EO, 9 Bonito President: Mr Dick King, 89 Empire Avenue, City Beach Way, Sorrento 6020, Tal: 246 1367. Vice President: 6015, Tel: 385 9089. Secretary: Mr Jack Le Cras, PO LCol (ret'd) T. Arbuckle RFD, EO, 4 Camelot Street, Box 169, Greenwood 6924. Treasurer: Mr Bob Truman, Carina, 6020, Tel: 447 5956. Secretary: Maj (Ret'd) .P.C. 12 Regent Grove, Morley 6062, Tel: 279 6903. For fur• Pickersgill, RFD, EF, 191 Kitchener Road, Booragoon ther information please contact any of the above. 6154, Tel: 330 4015. Treasurer: LCol (ret'd) N.A. Gilbert HMAS CANBERRAIHMAS SHROPSHIRE RFD, EO, 23 Grimsay Road, Ardross 6153, Tel: ASSOCIATION 364 3693. Meetiogs: Committee meetings held monthly President: Mr Keith Nordahl, 66 Todd Avenue, Como - all members welcome to attend. For venue and date 6152, Tel: 367 3102. Secretary: Mr Arthur Carter, 93 contact any of the above. Tamar Street, Palmyra 6157, Tal: 339 1483. Treasurer: EX-FORTRESS ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION Mr Alf Martin, 12 LeSouef Drive, Kardinya 6163, Tel: President: Mr Harold Smith, 58 Napier Street, Nedlands, 331 2113. AGM November, Committee Meetings as 6009. Tel: 386 3305. Secretary: Mr Reg Kidd, 257 required. Annual reunion Aug 9, other social functions Holmes Road, Forrestfield, 6058. Tel: 453 2393. about four times a year. For further information please Meetings mid-year general meeting and Christmas 'get contact any of the above. together' and barbeque on a date and at a venue to be HMAS HOBART ASSOCIATION (WA DIVISION) decided. All enquiries to the Secretary. President: Mr Graeme Purkiss, 14 Hollis St, Samson EX-PRISONERS OF WAR ASSOCIATION OF WA 6:163. Tel: 337. 8976. Secretary: Mr Clyde Goddard, 80 President: Mr C.E. lngram, 3-54 Federal St, Tuart Hill Derby Rd, Shenton Park 6008. Tel:· 381 8705. 6060. Te.l: 344 7949. Secretary: Mr H Davey, cl- TPI Treasurer: Mr Bob Gee, 23 Sicklemore St, Brentwood Village. All correspondence and enquiries to the Presi• 6153. Tel: 364 6264. AGM and Annual Reunion held < I dent at the above address. Association meetings are s~ond Friday in February and social and commemora- held the first Wednesday of each month. tiVe functions held about six times each year., Monthly EX-PRISONERS OF WAR ASSOCIATION OF WA• .get togethers at Anzac House on the last Thursday of LADIES AUXILIARY each month from around noon. For further information President: Mrs M. Galliott, 42 Commonwealth Avenue, please contact the Secretary. North Perth 6006, Tel: 443 3536. Secretary: Mrs R HMAS WARRAMUNGA VETERANS' ASSOCIATION James, 7B Wenden Place, Willetton 6155, Tel: President: Vacant. Secretary. Mr T.E. (Tom) Oakley, 43 457 8727. Meetings: same time and place as men. Strickland St, Mt. Cl~remont 6010. Tel: 384 3042. EX-WRANS ASSOCIATION WA Treasurer: Mrs P.D. (Pat) lngham, Unit 79/96 Guildford President: Mrs Rena Blackett, Unit 3/93 Aurelian Street, Road, Mt lawley 6050. T el: 271 1826. For any further Palmyra 6157, Tal: 339 5030. Secretary: Mrs Helen information please contact any of the above. Oliver, 2 Dryden Street, Munster 6166, Tel: 434 2084: KOREA & SOUTH EAST ASIA FORCES Treasurer: Mrs Laurine Drew, 13 Thorpe Street, Money ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA (WA BRANCH) 6062. Meetings: second Monday of each month at State President: Mr H.D. Whitehurst, Tel: 361 9062. Anzac House (unless otherwise advised). State Secretary: Mr A. McMorland, PO Box 1384, East FEDERATED TB SAILORS, SOLDIERS & Vie Park .61 01 . Tel: 295 3459. State Treasurer: Mr Harry AIRMEN'S ASSOCIATION Fowle, 11 Mirador Road, Morley 6062, Tel: 275 1259. President: Mr Frank Hamilton, 35 Clement Driv ~. Meetings: Second Saturday in June, September and Karrinyup 6018. Tel: 448 5204. Secretary: Mrs Grace December at the Belmont Sub-Branch, 22 Leake Street, Storer, 16 Dowell Place, Bibra Lake Tel: 417 9598. Belmont at 1000 hrs. Page 66- Listening Post- Autumn 1996 Unit Associ~ons cont...

LIMBLESS SOLDIERS'.ASSOCIATION OF WA (INC) PARTIALLY BLINDED SOLDIERS' ASSOCIATION ("Wingies and Stumpies"): President: P.R. Collins. OF AUSTRALIA (WA BRANCH) INC. Secretary: Q.C. Brown·, 80-82 Hen l ~y Street, Como, WA General meeting held at Anzac House at 1.00pm, first 6152. Tel: 450 6428-(Postal Address): Bag Lot No. 2 Tuesday each month, except January. Secretary:-Mr Post Office, Como, WA 6152. meeting first Wednesday Maurice John Rinaldi (Maurie), 35 Weaponess Road, each month except Janu~ry. 1.30pm. Scaroborugh 6019, Tel: 341 6151 . MIDDLE EAST VAD ASSOCIATION WA President: Mrs Joan Dowson, MBE, 3 Bay View Tee, PEGASUS (AIRBORNE FORCES) ASSOCIATION Mosman Park 6012, Tel: 384 6712. Secretary: Mrs L OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA (INC) (Tuck)- Fealy, Unit 156, 10 Morri~on St, Como 6152, Tel: President: Don Newman, Tel: 246 1738. The Hon. 313 0456. Meetings as called. Annual reunion nearest Secretary: John Hately, 14 Purley St, Bayswater WA Saturday to November 23. 6053, Tel: 279 8626. General meetings held at Riverton "N' CLASS DESTROYER ASSOCIATION R~L first Sunday of every alternate month, commencing President· Mr Don Griffiths, 8 Radiata St, Riverview February at 2.00pm. Informal uncheon meetings first 6210, Tel: 535 6454. Secretaryrrreasurer: Mrs Dorothy Wednesday in every month 12 noon, Anzac Club, Perth. Higgins, 69 Spigl Way, Bateman 6150, Tel: Ladies welcome both meetings. 332 5723. Meetings: for details of meetings please con- POLISH EX-SERVICEMEN'S ASSOCIATION tact Secretary on 332 5723. · SUB-BRANCH .No. 9. NAVAL ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA, President: Or W. Gorski, OAM, Tel: 387 7347.. Hon CITY OF FREMANTLE SUB-SECTION Secretary: S. Zalewski, Tel: 274 6280. Hon Treasurer: President/Secretary: Mr A.D. Needham, 16 Warragoon Z. Slowinski;· Tel: 298 8426. All correspondence to 33 Crescent,. Attadale. Tel: 330 3411. Treasurer: Mr S.G. Eighth Avenue; Maylands 6051. Thomas, 91 Coleman Crescent, Melville, 6156. Tel: 330 3427. Meetings: 1130 hrs last Monday of each RAAF ASSOCIATION MANDURAH BRANCH month at the Navy Club, 64 High Street: Fremantle President: Ron Lopaten, Tel: 535 7830. Secretary: 6160. John Gabriel, Tel: 535 4314. Clubrooms: Phone & Fax: NAVAL ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA, 535 8217, 0900-1200 hrs, Tues to Thurs. Meetings: 3rd CITY OF PERTH SUB-SECTION Tuesday of each month at 133 Mandurah Terrace, President: Mr Ben Haseldine, 71 Lynton Street, Mt Mandurah (May to Oct - at 1330 hrs), (Nov to Apr- at Haw1horn 6016, Tel: 444 3762. Secretary: Mr John 1500 hrs). All correspondence: PO' Box 1015, Mandurah Ross, 1 Benwee Road, Floreat 6014, Tel: 387 6960. 6210. Meets fourth Tuesday of each month commencing at RAAF 467-463 LANCASTER SQUADRONS 8.00 pm at 71 West Parade, East Perth. ASSOCIATION WESTERN AUSTRALIA Correspondence to the Secretary please at the above President: Mr Ron Smith, 6~ Camm Avenue, Bull Cree~ address. 6.149, Tel: 332 3318. Secretaryrrreasurer: Mr Kevin NAVAL ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA McGrath, 8 Appian Way, Hamersley 6022, Tel: (WESTERN AUSTRALIAN SECTION) INC. 342 6554. Meetings: Four times a year at the Royal President: Mr Jack Appleby, 143 McDonald Street, Australian Air Force Association, Bull Creek. Joondanna 6060. Tel: 444 3598. Secretary: Mr Tom RAEME VIETNA~ ASSOCIATION (WA BRANCH) Oakley, 43 Strickland Street, Mt Claremont 6010. Tel: President: Mr Jotin Klein, 99 Waiter Rd, Bassendean 384 3042. All correspondence to Hon. State Secretary, 6054, Tel: 279 3080. Secretary: Mr Garry Whykes, 33 PO Box 8289, Stirling St, Perth 6849. Kanimbla Way, Morley 6062, Tel: 276 1920. Meetings: NETiiERLANDS EX-SERVICEMEN'S ASSSOCIATION as required at 113 Fld Wksp lrwiri Barracks, Karrakatta. OF ~USTRALIA INC. President: Mr E Saints, 154 Wood Street, lnglewood RATS OF TOBRUI( ASSOCIATION (WA BRANCH) 6052. Secretary: Mr J. Kuijpers, 18A Dauntless Way, President: Mr. Kevin Scott. 24 Wilberforc~ St, Mt Duncraig 6023, Tel: 448 7178. Meetings: Tuescfay Hawthorn 6016, Tel:.444 4655. Secretary: Mr W.C. (Bill) 10. 30am - 2.30pm, .Sundays 4.30pm - 8.30pm. Held at· Mahar, 272 Marmion Street, Palmyra 6157,Tel: 339 the CoolbiniaiYokine Amateur Football Club, 2187. Meetings: Committee meets second Tuesday of Wordsworth Avenue, Yokine. Entrance to building oppo• each month at 1pm Anzac Club. site no. 27. All correspondence to Secretary, PO Box REGULAR DEFENCE FORCES WELFARE 311, lnglewood 6932. AS~~CIATION (WA BRANCH) . NORMANDY VETERANS' ASSOCIATION President: CCJr RW Usher RANEM. Secretary: W01 B.F. President: Mr J.E. Mayers, 15 Finlay Court, Rivervale, Cooper JP AJMM Tel: (09) 409 6577. Treasurer: Sgt WA 6103. Tel: 478 2071 . Secretary: Mr R. Bruce, 21159 R.A. Hinton. Tel: (09) 387 2237: All correspondence to Fitzroy Road, Rivervale, WA 6103. Tel: 362 3597. the Secretary, PO Box 14, Hillarys.6025. Meets the first Meetings to be held on 1st Tuesday each month at Wednesday of each month at the USI Rooms, lrwin Anzac House at 11.00am. Barracks, Karrakatta at 12.30pm. Any member is wel• come. Llstenln'g Post-Autumn 1996.- Page 67 Unit Associations cont...

ROYAL AIR FORCES ASSOCIATION City Beach. Tel: 385 8400. State Treasurer: M. Corry, 4 (BRANCH 1210 WA) Nottingham .St, East Victoria Park. Tel: 361 2824. President: Mr Fletcher H Kelley, 4/434 Main.St, Balcatta Meetings:· February, May, August, November. 6021, Tel: 349 4908. Secretary: Mr Mike Kiff, 126 ROYAL AUSTRALIAN SIGNALS ASSOCIATION A~unya Ave, Cloverdale 6105, Tel:·277 7713. WA(INC) ROYAL· AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION President: Mr Peter Lofdahl, 7 Danaher Mews, Clarkson · Eleven branches and seven affiliated . A fully licensed 6030,· Tel: 305 1303. Secretary: Mrs. Cathy L~fdahl, club is open to members daily. For fur:ther information details same as the President. V1ce President/ and meeting details contact the State Secretary. Treasurer: Mr Bruce .Jellis, Tel: 447 6270. Meetings: Telephone 332 4444. Anz&c Hous~. first Thursday of each month (except ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ARMOURED CORPS January) at 7.00 p.m. All Signallers welcomed. ASSOCIATION ROYAL AUSTRALIAN.SURVEY CORPS President: Mr J (Jo~n) Williams, 11 Cornish St, .ASSOCIATION (WESTERN AUSTRALIA) INC. Armadale WA 6112, Tel: 399 ~452. Secretary/ President: Mr R. Sargeant, 10 Paris Way, Karrinyup 6018, Treasurer: Mr R.J. (Ray) McMahon, Unit 6/52 Keymer Tel: 445 3995. Secretary/Treasurer: Mr Philip Bray, 33 St; Belmont 6104. Tel: 478 2598. Nalpa Way, Duncraig 6023. Meetings: Anzac Day, Corps ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ARMY NURSING CORPS Birthday (Jul} and Christmas. ASSOCIATION WA BRANCH SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMAND President: Mrs Judy Gibson, 19 Carnegie Way, Padbury . President/Secretary: Don Meredith, 11 B Riley Rd, 6025, Tel: 401 7138. Secretary: Mrs Olga Greig, 9 Claremont 6010, Tel: (09) 386 1171. Airforce and Napier Road; Morley 6062, Tel: 276 3493. Associated Units (e.g. Chindits serving in 14th Army ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS Theatre 1939-194~) . ASSOCIATION SUBMARINE OLD COMRADES' ASSOCIATION OF President: Mr Don Blair, 193 Labouchere Rd, Como. WESTERN AUSTRALIA Tel: (H) 474 1741, {W) 272 2933. Secretary: W02 D. President: Commander Pete Shield RN (Ret'd), 19 Fifth Cocking. Treasurer: Maj Darryl Richards, Tel: (H) 342 Road, Armadale, Tel: 399 4243 .. Secretary: M.E.M. 0508. Address for correspondence: cl- 13 Fd Sup Coy, (Michael) Pearson, 8-106 Terrace Road, Perth 6000, lrwin Barracks, Karrakatta 6010. Tel: 221 1037. Meetings: Leederville ~owling Club, sec• ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ARTILLERY AS"SOCIATION ond Wednesday of the month at 7.30pm (except. (WA) December). President: Mr J.A.T. Hobbs, 10 Edgar Way, Mt Pleasant THE AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION OF TOTALLY & 6153, Tel: 364 3568. Secretary/Welfare Officer: Mr H.A. Pi:RMANENTLY INCAPACITATED EX-SERVICE MEN Mofflin, Unit 5, No. 1 Hilda St, Shenton Park 6008. Tel: AND WOMEN LIMITED WESTERN AUSTRALIAN 220 3333/4. Treasurer: Mr R.J. Shurman, 40 Carlyle BRANCHINC. . Crescent, Duncraig 6025, Tel: 447 1423. Meet on the TPI Memorial Estate, Bag Lot 2, Post Office, Como third Monday each month at 1o. ooam at Anzac Club. 6152. ·President: Mr Jim Balk, Secr etary: Mr Peter Meetings are open to all members, and members of Lofdahl, 80 Henley St., Como 6152, Tel: 450 1893 or affiliated Associations. 450 1921 . Meetings: 2nd Tuesday of each month ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION (except January) commencing at 10.30am: Lunches , OFWA available weekdays and weekends by booking one. day President: Mr M.J. Ryan OAM, Bus Ph: 481 0205 A/H prior. 307 2385, Mobile 01 5 446 666. Secretary: Mr N J Clark, THE AUSTRALIAN WATER TRANSPORT Bus/Home Ph: 342 5808, Mobile: 019 1 02 338 ASSOCIATION, WA BRANCH Meetings: Second Sunday in February, April, June, President: Mr Jack Patterson, 15A Greville Way, Augi.Jst and October at 10. 30am at 13 Fd Sqn RAE Girrawheen, Tel: 342 0142. Secretary: B. Thomas, 9 SapperS Way, lrwin Barracks, Karrakatta. Queens Road, Mt Pleasant 6153. Tel: 364 3008: ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY CLEARANCE DIVERS Meetings first Monday each month (except January) ASSOCIATION WA CHAPTER Anzac Club 1130, when Monday is a public holiday ·the , President: Alex Donald, DSC, 7 Woodley Cres, Melville first Tuesday. All ex-Water Transport welcome. Heights 6156, Tel: {09) 330 6596. Meetings: Anzac Day THE BURMA STAR ASSOCIATION (AGM) 1300, Navy Club, High Street, Fremantle. W~NNEROO Correspondence to the President. BRANCH ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY CORVETTES President: Major Rupert Platel (Retd), 49 Banksia St, ASSOCIATfON {WA) Joondanna 6060, Tel: 444 4914. Secretary: Ben Colquhoun, 5 Oakland Avenue, Cloverdale 6105?Tel: State President: J . Appleby, 143 McDonald St, 277 4814. Meetings the second Tuesday·each month at Joondanna 6060. Tel: 444 3598. State Secretary: J. the Nollamara Autumn Centre, Sylvia Stre~t. Nollamara. Shepheard, Unit 45, Ocean Gardens, 60 Kalinda Or, Page 68-Listening Post-Autumn 1996 Unit Associq.tions cont... .- THE BURMA STAR ASSOCIATION UNITED KINGDOM • COMBINED EX-SERVICES (WESTERN AUSTRALIAN BR~NCH) FEDERATION President: Mr John Barton, Unit 7/5 Sepia Crt, President: Mr G. Norton, Tel: 592 2859. Secretary ~ockingham : Mr 6168. Tal: 527 3351 . Secretary: Mr Len E.H. Martyn, 9B Wilson Place, Belmont 6104, Tel: Kebbell, 17 Glengarry St, Parkwood 6147. Tel: 277 2061. Meetings are arranged for four times a year 457 5027. Meetings: Every third Wednesday of the and annual reunion and other functions as arranged by month. Contact either of the above for more information. Committee. Contact either of the above for further infor• THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN REGIMENT mation. All correspondence please to the above ASSOCIATION (WA BRANCH) address. · President: Mr K. V. Barrington, 13 Clematis Ad, V.A. & A.A.M.W.S. (A) Woodlands 6018, Tel: 446 4227. Secretary: Mr K.R. President: Mrs Glyn Cody, 138A Karrinyup Road, Trent 3 Broad St, Kensington 6151, Tel: 367 7794. Karrinyup 6018, Tel: 341 3323. Secretary: Mrs Ena Meetings: second Wednesday at 8.00pm in October, McGinn OAM, 9 Castile Street, Wembley Downs 6019, December and February. For venue please call the Tel: 446 3742. Meetings: Arranged monthly.at members Secretary on 367 7794. All' correspondence to the homes. Contact Secretary for information. Secretary. VIETNAM LOGISTICAL SUPPORT VETERANS' THE RO.YAL MARINES ASSOCIATION ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA (INC.) WESTERN AUSTRALIAN·BRANCH President: Vie Boreham, 8 Hollis Street, Samson 6163, President: Mr C.W. Agate. V/President: Mr D. Getliffe. Tel: 337 8885 (h), 334 2489(w).Vice President: Ric Hon Secretary: Mr Jim Wood. Treasurer: Mr G. Gillling, 137 Waterford Drive, Hillarys, 6025. Treasurer: Simpson. Meetings: The Navy Club, 64 High St, Keith Cox; 2-2 Carbon Crt, Osborne Park 6017, -Tel: Fremantle 6160 at 8.00pm the last Monday of every 245 1573, 244 3115. Secretary: Brian Long, 38 month including public holidays. Address for correspon• MacArthur Ave, jPadbury 6025, Tel: 402 0241. dence: The Hon Secretary, 57a Dongar~ St, lnnaloo Meetings: the Victoria Cross Room, Anzac House Perth, 6018, Tel: 592 7623. on the third Tuesday of every second month. Dates can . be confirmed THE ROYAL NAVAL ASSOCIATION FREMANTLE with the Secretary. BRANCH (W.A.) VIETNA.M VETERANS AND DEFENCE FORCE JOBLINK Chairman: David Wiseman, Tel: 592 1458. Hon. Secretary: F H Cooke-Willis, 23 Foss Street, Palmyra President: Mr Bill Sturgess. Administrator: Mr G Purcell, 6157, Tel: 339 5573. Meetings: first Tuesday of each 148 Lord Street, Perth, Tel: 227 6961 or 227 6963 month (except January) at the Navy Club (lnc), 64 High VIETNAM VETERANS ASSOCIATION OF Street, Fremantle at 7.00pm. AUSTRALIA WA eRANCH INC. PO Box 21, THE ROYAL NAVAL ASSOCIATION PERTH Maylands 6051. Office: 219 Railway Parade, Maylands, (WESTERN AUSTRALIA BRANCH) Tel: 370 3011. Fax: 332 4964. President: Mr Rob Cox, Tel: 332 Chairman: Mr I R Hunter, 9 Derwent Place, Rockingham 4964: Secretary:. Mr 'Keith Jones, Tel: 443 1530. Welfare Officer: 6168, Tel: 527 1612. Secretary: Mr David Lea, 13 Mrs Joe Cox, Tel: 332 4964. Meetings: Held Harcourt Place, Bellevue 6056, Tel: 274 4847. Postal three monthly, , Peninsula Hotel Building Address: PO Box 1692, Midland 6056. Meetings: - 219 Railway Parade, 3rd Maylands. Wednesday of each month at RSL Hall Leake Street, Belmont at 7.00 p.m. VII::TNAM VETERANS M.C. AUSTRALIA President: Johr,t Lewis. Vice President: Paul Kennedy. THE ROYAL NAVAL ASSOCIATION Secretary: Brian Rees. All correspondence to be sent to (ROCKINGHAM & DISTRICTS) BRANCH the Secretary, Vietnam Veterans Motorcycle Club, PO Chairman: David Slowley , 18 Welch Wy, Warnbro 6169, Box 1442, Wangara 6065, TeVfax business hours only: Tel: 593 1279. 'Vice Chairman: Derick Ramsdale, 6 (09) 401 1546. Falcon Crt, Rockingham 6168, Tel: 527 9515. Hon WA RSL BOWLS SECTION Secretary: Dorothy V. Rawe, 62b Frederick St, Management Committee meet third Monday of each Shoalwater 6169, Tel: 592 6148. Hon Treasurer: Te,d month at the Royal Park Bowling Club, Charles Street, Haines, Lot 32·Mallee Drive, Amarillo, Kamup 6176, Tel: North Perth at 1O.OOam. President: Mr Doug 537 1599. Meetings: first Tuesday each Pi,ggott, month (except Tel: 446 1331. Hon State.Secretary January) at TS Anzac, Point Peron : Mr Ted Philp, Tel: Road, 7.30 pm. 450 4033. THIRTYNINERS' ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA WAAAF ASSOCIATION (NOR-WAAAF GROUP) Meeting dates: Gallipoli Room, Anzac Hou;;e, 4th The N9R-WAAAF Group (Northern Suburbs branch of Wednesday March, May, July, September and the WAAAF Association) meets on the last Thursday of No>~ember . All enquiries to the Secretary. State each month at 1200 hours, upstairs at Anzac House, President: Mr J.P. Hall, AM BEM JP Unit A/3 Hellam with the exception of December and January Grove Booragoon 6154. Tel when the : 364 7776. State group i? in recess. For Secret~ry: Mrs F.E. Johnson information ring Ullian Waldie on OAM, 38 Renwick Street, 3491829. South Perth. Tel: 367 5949. Listening Po~t- Autumn 1996- Page 69 Unit Associations cont...

4 WRAAC ASSOCIATION (WESTERN'AUSTRALIA) Almondbury Ad, Ardross 6153, Tel: 364 2639. Meetings: President: Mrs May Tomich,· 2 Ludlands Street, Morley third Tuesday each month, Anzac House, 1O.OOam. 6062, Tel: 276 8616. Address all correspond~nce to Box 2/7th AUSTRALIAN FIELD REGIMENT 6149, East Perth 6892. · ASSOCIATION WRAAF BRANCH- RAAF ASSOCIATION President: Mr Joe Stokes, 23 Gairloch St, Applecross President: Mrs E. Southern, 31 Larrissa Road, W!lletton 6153, Tel: 364 1933. Secretary: Mr Bill Woods, 4/2 6155, 457 8628. Secretary:· Mrs J. Bland , 2 Graphic Lewington Gdns. Bibra Lake 6163, Tel: 417 3989. Court, Beldon 6025, Tel: 401 8296. Meetings held at Meets in the Pure Steel Room, Gloucester Park at 8.00pm on the first Tuesday of each month in the Meg 11 .00am on the second Tuesday of each month except Olive Room at the Air Force Memorial Estate at Bull January. Creek. 217TH FIELD AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION Z SPECIAL UNIT ASSOCIATION OF President/Secretary: Mr Hal Finkelstein,· 15 Jukes Way, WESTERN AUSTRALIA INC. Glendalough 6016, Tel: 444 0328. Reunion, September President: L.M. Griffiths, 52 Koolinda St, Falcon 621 0, each year. Tel: 534 2991. Secretary: Lt. Col. E.W. Dubberlin, EO 2/13TH FIELD AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION RL JP, 28A Houston Ave., Dianella 6062. Tel: 275 1348. Secretary: L. McCarthy, 31 Marradong Street, Coolbinia Meetings as arranged by committee. 6050, Tel: 444 1927. De tails of meetings - contact Z SPECIAL UNIT INTERNATIONAL (INC.) Secretary. PO Box 490, Kalamunda, WA 6076. Chairman: Jack 2/16th AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION Sue, Tel: 250 2737. Vice Chairman: Ross Davidson, A.I.F. ASSOCIATION Tel: 383 7654. Presi~ent: Jim. Smith, 1/11 3 Edward St, Osborne Park 1ST AUSTRALIAN PARACHUTE BATTALION 6017, Tel: 444 4748. Secretary: J.S. Miller, 120 W.A. BRANCH Lockhart St, Como 6152, Tel: 450 4170. Treasurer: K.P. President: Mr Bill Rose, 19 Jukes Way, Glendalough Nicol, 31 Valerie St., Dianella 6062. Tel: 276 2146. 6016. Tel: 444 6858. Secretary: Mr Ron Waters, 25 Clyo . Editor Pigeon post: D.K. Norrish, 6 Magnolia Way, Way, Kallaroo 6025, Tel: 307 7079. Forrestfield 6058. Tel: 453 2001, or PO Box 26, 2BN MALAYA MERDEKA VETERANS (WA) Forresfield 6058. Committee meets at Anzac House on President: L. Phenna, MBE, JP, Tel: 349 5859. the first Wednesday each month at 1 0.30am. V/ President: B. Dennis. Secretary: J. Wimbridge. 2/28TH BATTALlON AND 24TH ANTI-TANK COY. Treasurer: R. Rupe. Meetings: every first Wednesday ASSOCIATION of the month at Anzac House at 1400hrs in the Board President: Mr A. Henderson, 45/177 Dampier Ave, Room. Kallaroo 6025, Tel: 307 3627. Secretary: Mr E. Harrod, 2/1-2/2 PIONEERS W.A. 13 Hadley St, Safety Bay 6169, Tel: 527 6833. Chairman: LA. Preedy, 152 Keightley Road, Shenton Committee meets Anzac House second Wednesday Park 6008. Tel: 381 6294. Meetings to be held at Anzac each month. Visitors welcome, AGM second House on third Friday in March, July and November in Wednesday in August. Anzac Club. 2/32ND BATTALION ASSOCIATION (WA) 2/2ND COMMANDO ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA President.; Mr Fenton Smith, 184 Shaftesbury Ave., President: Mr W. Howell, 68 Randell St, Mandurah Bedford 6052. Tel: 271 6492. Sec/Treasurer: Mr Colin 6210, Tel: 535 1923. Secretary: Mr J.W. Carey, 13 Edmiston, Unit 3, 456 Main Street, Balcatta, 6021 . Tel: Stoddart Way, Bateman 6150, Tel: 332 7050. Meetings 349 0799. held second Tuesday of each month at 1 O.OOam at 2/43RD BATTALION ASSOCIATION (WA BRANCH) Anzac House. President: Mr Eric Treloar, 2 Alison Road, Attadale 2/3 FIELD REGIMENT ASSOCIATION W.A. 6156, Tel: 330 4764. Secretary: Mr Wally Hughes, 20 President: Mr Hugh Ferrier, Tel: 384 5573. Secretary: Aberle Street, Hamilton Hill 6163, Tel: 337 2088. Meets Mr M. Davison, Tel: 330 3033. Treasurer: K. (Sandy) Anzac House every third Wednesday for lunch. Leek, Tel: 337 1908. Address for correspondence: PO 7 ARMY TROOPS COY RAE ASSOCIATION Box 198, Palmyra 6157. Meets second Wednesday Presiden.t: Mr Jack Benari, 38 Roebuck Drive, Salter each month, 11 .00am Anzac House. · Point 6152, Tel: 450 3876. Secretary: Mr Colin F. 2l3RD MACHINE GUN BATTALION ASSOCIATION Wilson, 41 Herald Avenue, Willetton 6155. Annual Committee meets when necessary. President: K.E. reunion last Friday of September. Past members most Eckermann, 31 Tranquil! Road, Kelmscott 6111 . Tel: welcome. 390 6072. Secretary: F.J. (Banjo) Binstead, 101 Star 7TH' BATT A LION .THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN Street, Carlisle 6101. Tel: 361 8762. REGIMENT (Pig Bn) 2/4TH MACHINE GUN BATT A LION AIF President: Don Cruden, 165 Henley St, Henley Brook ASSOCIATION 6055. Tel: (h) 296 4081 . Secretary: Doug Fieldhouse, 509 The Strand President: Mr E.W. Wallin, 3/ 63 Constance St., , Diane lla 6062. Tel: (h) 275 8598. Meetings as arranged. Nollamara 6061 , Tel: 349 1409. Secretary: J. Kyros, 19 Page 70-Listening Post- Autumn 1996 Unl'f? Ass~olatlons cont... ;.. ' . . 11TH BATTALI~N AIF 13TH BGDE. WWII 417 97o'7. Secretary:, Jan Lambert, 2 Tabard St, President: Mr V.·Aifrich, Mandurah 6210, Tei: 535 7291 . Greenwood 6024, Tel: 247 40~3 . Meetings held at 2000 Secretary: Mr ban Angwln, 7/6 Mt Henry Road, Coma hrs Meg Olive Room, Airforce Memorial Est ate, 6152, Tei: 450 '1 833. Reunion & other meetings as Bullcreek Dve, Bullscreek, on 2nd Tuesday each month. arranged. · . 44TH BATTALION ASSOCIATION ·11th DIVISION SIGNAL'S ASSOCIAnON Committee meets when called. Annual Reunion on For enquiries contact- President: Lt Col O.R. Vldean, 23 advice. President: A. Collins, 134 Roseberry Street, Halley Street, lnnaloo 6018. Tei: 446 6304. Secretary: Bedford. Tel: 271 4448. N. Deakln, 20 Canterbury Drive, Wllletton 6155. Regular 48TH & 2/48TH BATTALION ASSOCIATION meetings held at 150 Harbourne Street, Wembley. President: Mr Tom Easom, 568 Marmion Street, 11th (1914·1918) & 2111TH AIF BNS ASSOCIATION Booragoon 6154, Tel: 330 7387. Secretary: Mr D.A. President: Mr K.T. Johnson, MBE EO JP, 37 Blaven Hamilton, 80 Stoneham Road, Attadale 6156, Tel: Way, Ardross 6153, Tel: 364 1051 . Secretary/Treasurer: 330 2923. Meetings and luncheon held at the CarltoQ Mr J.C. Watson, 686 Canning Highway, Applecross Hotel, 248 Hay Street East at 11.30am on the third 6153, Tel: 364 2126. Meetings: Third Tuesday each Monday of each month. month (except January) 1 O.OOam, Gallipoli Room, n SQUADRON ASSOCIATION (WA DIVISON) Anzac House. President: Mr Mick Michael, Tel: (w) 221 3719, (h) 384 16TH BATTALI~N, THE CAMERON HIGHLANDERS 4222. Secretary/Treasurer: Mrs Shirley Donaldson, 1 OF WA ASSOCfATION Howson Street, Hiiton 6163, Tel: 337 2260. President: Mr Ralph LaPianche, Tei: 349 5434. Correspondence to the Secretary. Secretary: Mr Jim Richardson, 6 lsaac Street, Meivllle 460 SQUADRON RAAF ASSOCIATION (WA) 6156, Tei: 330 5405. Members advised re meetings by President: W.E.M. (Gerry) Batsman, DFC, 221 South letter as required. Terrace, Coma 6152. Tel: 367 3063. Secretary: N.B. 28TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION (AIF) Johnson, 63 Kirwan Street, Floreat Park 6014. Tel: 1939-45 ASSOC.IATION 387 4229. Treasurer: T.R. Gallop, 19 Fe lstead Committee- Mr Phil Wilkerson, Tel: 330 7263. Mr Clif Crescent, Hamersley 6022. Tel: 447 4037. Meetings are Tambiyn, Tei: 384 5008. Mr Tubby Whitfieid, Tei: held four times a year. 458 9983. Annual reunion early January, other functions 1940 DUNKIRK VETERANS ASSOCIATION as arranged by Committee. Meets first Tuesday each month Anzac House (Club), 25 SQUADRON BRANCH 28 St George's Terrace, Perth at 1.30pm. President: Royal Australian Mr Force Association. President: R.f:1. Duncalfe, Tel: 295 1689. Secretary/Treasurer: Denny Hains, 42 Marlene Wy, Bibra Lake 6163, Tel: Peter W. Hessell, Tel: 344 1756.

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