The 2013 King-Hall Naval History Conference

The War at Sea 1914-18

Thursday BAE Systems Theatre, 23 May

0900 - 0925 Registration

0925 Emergency and administration briefing

0930 - 0940 Opening Remarks Vice Admiral , AO, CSC, RAN Chief of Navy

0940 - 1020 Keynote Address The War at Sea 1914-18 Dr Norman Friedman (Sponsored by the School of Humanities & Social Sciences University of NSW, )

1020 - 1050 Morning Tea

1050 - 1230 Grand Admiral von Tirpitz (1849-1930): The making of a Wilhelmine Imperialist Naval Officer Dr John Moses, Professorial Associate, Charles Sturt University

Prelude to 1914: German Naval Planning against the United States in Asian- Pacific waters Dr Peter Overlack

Lessons Learnt? How the Great War shaped the Japanese Navy's planning for the next war Colonel Tim Gellel, CSC, Defence Headquarters

1230 - 1320 Lunch

1320-1500 St Andrew against the Kaiser: Russia’s naval strategy and operations in the Baltic and Black Sea Theatres 1914-18 Dr Alexey Muraviev, Curtin University

Naval command, co-operation and capability during the Dardanelles campaign Dr Rhys Crawley, Australian National University

Ottoman Anti-submarine measures in the Dardanelles conflict 1915 Harvey Broadbent, Macquarie University

1500 – 1530 Afternoon Tea

1530 – 1650 Austro-Hungarian Naval Intelligence 1914-18 John Schindler, US Naval War College

Communications current at the outbreak of WWI and their evolution Captain Richard Arundel, RAN (Rtd) Friday BAE Systems Theatre, Australian War Memorial 24 May

0900 - 1040 Testing the waters: Dogger Bank & Jutland through the lens of a model for command & control Dr Alexander Kalloniatis, Joint Operations Division , DSTO

HMS New Zealand Michael Wynd, RNZN Museum

The real Warhorse: Maritime blockade & distorting Germany’s war effort Stephen Prince, Head Naval Historical Branch, Portsmouth

1040 - 1100 Morning Tea

1100 – 1240 The Fleet Unit & the Submarine Dr Duncan Redford, National Museum of the

The Commander David Hobbs, MBE, RN (Rtd)(Sponsored by the Australian Naval Institute)

First Flights: Aviation and the RAN 1914-18 Commodore Jack McCaffrie, RAN (Rtd)

1240 - 1330 Lunch

1330 - 1510 The other Room 40: SIGINT and the Pacific War 1914-18 Dr Joe Straczek, Department of Defence

The RAN ashore Commander Greg Swinden, RAN, Sea Power Centre - Australia

The Australian media and the RAN 1914-18 Dr Tim Coyle

1510 – 1540 Afternoon Tea

1540 – 1630 The RAN College: William Creswell’s last great legacy Vice Admiral Peter Jones, AO, DSC, RAN, Chief of Capability Development

1630 Closing Remarks Captain Justin Jones Biographies

Captain Richard Arundel, RAN (Rtd)

Richard Arundel joined the Navy in 1947 and specialised in Signal Communications in 1959. His postings included Fleet Communication's Officer, OinC Signal's School, Director of Naval Communications, Deputy Director Joint Service Communications, and Defence Attache Paris and Berne. He co-authored the Report to Government recommending the AUSSAT communication's satellite. He is a French linguist. His interests include naval research and contributes to RUSI (Q). He lives in Queensland and the south of France.

Harvey Broadbent

Harvey Broadbent is presently Senior Research Fellow in Modern History at Macquarie University directing the ARC assisted Gallipoli Centenary Research Project in partnership with the Australian War Memorial. The research is centred on the Turkish military and other archives. He is presently writing the book emanating from the project, outlining in detail the Turkish defence at Gallipoli. He was born and raised in Manchester and graduated with Honours in Near Eastern Studies at the University of Manchester in 1974, where his major study was Turkish language, history and culture. He speaks Turkish fluently. He has lived in Turkey from time to time and visits the country professionally every year. He emigrated to Australia with his wife and three children in 1975 and holds a NSW Diploma in Education (1974)

For 22 years he worked as a TV and radio producer for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation specialising in historical documentaries and continues to produce regular programs as a freelance producer. He published his second book, Gallipoli, The Fatal Shore in 2005, an illustrated account of the Gallipoli Campaign in the First World War. His first book, The Boys Who Came Home: Recollections of Gallipoli, based on his interviews with Gallipoli veterans in Australia, Britain and Turkey, was published in 1990 with a 2nd edition in 2000.

Through parallel career interests in media and writing he combines long experience in television and radio production as a program-maker, writer for television, radio and print media and as an executive producer with research in Middle Eastern and Ottoman history and social history research, including authorship of the two military history books. Apart from being a specialist in Turkish history and the Gallipoli Campaign he has a strong interest in the multiple media representation of historical themes, events and ideas both through the media adaptation of pure research and utilization of techniques such as oral history and re-creation of historical contexts. A further focus of interest is the presentation of war in the media.

Dr Tim Coyle Tim Coyle was an international arms control adviser to the Australian Government and an active naval reserve officer for over 20 years. In his naval role he worked in intelligence-related appointments, largely as an analyst. His civilian background includes over 20 years in the international airline industry and as an analyst in regional political-military affairs.

Tim holds a BA (Hons) from the Australian National University and received his PhD from the University of New South Wales in March 2007. His PhD thesis topic was ‘A History of Air Navigation in the Royal Australian Air Force and its Predecessor, the Australian Flying Corps 1914-1945’. Tim’s interests include Russian language, early 20th Century architecture and air and maritime history.

Dr Rhys Crawley

Rhys Crawley is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. He holds an honours degree in history from the University of Wollongong, and a PhD from the University of New South Wales (University College, Australian Defence Force Academy). In 2007 he was selected as an annual summer scholar at the Australian War Memorial. His first book, The Climax at Gallipoli (Oklahoma University Press, forthcoming, 2013) examines the plans, preparations, limitations and potential of the August offensive at Gallipoli. A summary of his early findings was published as ‘The myths of August at Gallipoli’, in Craig Stockings (ed.), Zombie Myths of Australian Military History (New South, 2010), and his work on logistics appeared as ‘Supplying the offensive: the role of allied logistics’, in Ashley Ekins (ed.), Gallipoli: A ridge too far (Exisle, 2013). He is currently editing the Gallipoli diary of Captain Orlo Williams, chief cypher officer, and working on elements of Australia’s security and intelligence history.

Dr Norman Friedman

An internationally known strategist and naval historian, Dr Friedman spent more than a decade at a major US think-tank, and another as consultant to the Secretary of the Navy. He has been concerned throughout his career with the ways policy and technology intersect, in fields as disparate as national missile defence and mobilisation policy. He has consulted for the US Navy and the US Department of Defense and for major corporations. His more than 35 books include an award- winning account of US Cold War strategy and histories of British and Commonwealth cruisers and destroyers. He contributes a monthly column on world naval developments to the US Naval Institute Proceedings, and writes articles for journals worldwide, and is responsible for a commercial data base of world missiles. Dr Friedman holds a PhD from Columbia University, New York. He lectures widely on defence issues in forums such as the National Defence University, the Naval War College and the Royal United Services Institute. His current focus is on network- centric warfare; he recently published Network Centric Warfare: How Navies Learned to Fight Smarter in Three World Wars. In 2011, he published a book on unmanned combat air vehicles. Colonel Tim Gellel, CSC

A serving officer with the and a Japanese linguist, Colonel Gellel has fifteen years experience working on North Asian security issues. His four postings to Japan include service as Australia's Defence Attaché, and time as a student at both the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Command and General Staff College, and later the Japan National Institute for Defense Studies. He holds a Master of Arts Degree (International Relations), and his first book, on Australia’s military contribution to the First World War, is being published through the Australian Army History Unit.

Vice Admiral Ray Griggs, AO, CSC, RAN

Vice Admiral Griggs was born in Homebush NSW in 1961. He joined the Adelaide Port Division of the Reserve in 1978 as a radio operator and entered the Royal Australian Naval College at HMAS Creswell on a short service commission in 1979. In June 2011, Vice Admiral Griggs assumed command of the Royal Australian Navy.

During his seaman officer training Vice Admiral Griggs served in the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne and HMA ships Yarra and Advance before spending 12 months loaned to the Royal Navy in HMS Jersey to gain his Bridge Watchkeeping Certificate. In late 1981 he was posted to HMAS Perth as a Bridge Watchkeeper and deployed to the North West Indian Ocean in support of Australia's independent presence in that region following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

From 1983 to 1994 the then Lieutenant Griggs completed a series of postings as Navigating Officer of HMA Ships Cessnock, Torrens, Tobruk, Jervis Bay and Perth. Ashore he has served in variety of roles including as the aide-de-camp to His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, Sir James Plimsoll, AC, CBE, two postings in the Navy's officer career management directorate, Staff Officer (Navigation) to the Commander Australian Patrol Boat Forces and as Deputy Director Military Strategy and Director Future Warfare in the Australian Defence Headquarters. He completed specialist navigation training and graduated as a Principal Warfare Officer.

Between 1995 and 1997 Vice Admiral Griggs served as commissioning Executive Officer of HMAS Anzac, helping to bring the ANZAC class into service. In October 2001 he assumed command of the ANZAC Class frigate HMAS Arunta and was immediately involved in border protection duties as part of Operation RELEX. Arunta then deployed to the Persian Gulf to enforce United Nations sanctions against Iraq and in support of the War on Terror. The ship was recognised for her efforts by being awarded the Duke of Gloucester's Cup for being the most operationally efficient ship in the RAN fleet for 2002.

In 2003 he was posted as the ANZAC class Capability Element Manager in Rockingham, Western Australia. In 2004 he studied at the National War College in Washington D.C. prior to assuming command of the Australian Amphibious Task Group in mid 2005. He was promoted to Commodore in February 2006 and appointed as the Deputy Maritime (Fleet) Commander until assuming the position of Director General Navy Strategic Policy and Futures in Navy Headquarters in September 2007. In February 2008 he was seconded to the Defence White Paper team where he led the development of the Force Structure Review that provided the force structure underpinning the 2009 White Paper. In early 2009 he attended the UK Higher Command and Staff Course and was subsequently promoted to Rear Admiral and appointed as Deputy Head Strategic Reform and Governance. In May 2010 he was posted as Deputy Chief of Joint Operations during a high tempo period of operations abroad and at home.

Vice Admiral Griggs was awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross in 1997, a Commendation for Distinguished Service in 2003 for his work in the Persian Gulf, appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia in 2009. He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2012. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Queensland, a Master of Business Administration from the National Graduate School of Management at the Australian National University and a Master of Science (National Security Strategy) from the National Defense University in Washington D.C. He is married and has a daughter and a son.

Commander David Hobbs, MBE, RN Rtd

David Hobbs is a well known author and naval historian. He has written eleven books, the latest of which is The British Pacific Fleet and has co-authored nine more. He writes for several journals and magazines and in 2005 won the award for the Aerospace Journalist of the Year, Best Defence Submission, in Paris. He also won the essay prize awarded by the Navy League of Australia in 2008.

He lectures on naval subjects worldwide and has been on radio and TV in several countries. He served in the Royal Navy from 1964 until 1997 and retired with the rank of Commander. He is qualified as both a fixed and rotary wing pilot and his log book contains 2300 hours with over 800 carrier landings, 150 of which were at night.

Vice Admiral Peter Jones, AO, DSC, RAN

Peter Jones joined the Royal Australian Navy in 1974 and is a surface warfare specialist. Vice Admiral Jones' sea-going postings have included command of the frigate HMAS Melbourne and Commander Australian Surface Task Group. During 2002-2003, the then Captain Jones commanded the RAN Task Group in the Arabian Gulf as well as the multi-national Maritime Interception Force (MIF). He was the Maritime Interception Operations Screen Commander during the 2003 and commanded the MIF during the Khawr Abd Allah Waterway clearance operation. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the US Legion of Merit for his command of the MIF.

During his career Vice Admiral Jones’ service has included special training with the Royal Navy and exchange service with the Royal Canadian Navy. His senior shore appointments have included Commander Australian Navy Systems Command, Head of ICT Operations/Strategic J6 and Head Capability Systems within Capability Development Group. He has been Chief of Capability Development Group since December 2011.

Vice Admiral Jones has written extensively on naval historical and strategic matters. Among these works, he co-edited Reflections on the Royal Australian Navy (1991) and contributed to The Australian Centenary History of Defence: Volume 3: The Royal Australian Navy (2001) and Naval Power and Expeditionary Warfare: Peripheral Campaigns and New Theatres of Naval Warfare (2011). He has also contributed to Australian Dictionary of Biography and is a Visiting Fellow at the Australian Defence Force Academy. As a long term project Vice Admiral Jones is writing the story of the inaugural entry to the Royal Australian Naval College.

In the course of his academic studies, Vice Admiral Jones has received a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters of Arts from the University of New South Wales. He is also a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School and the Australian Institute of Company Directors

As of October 2012 Vice Admiral Peter Jones is the Serving Patron of the Australian Defence Alpine Snowsports Association (ADASA).

Captain Justin Jones, RAN

Captain Justin Jones, RAN was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He was educated at Geelong Grammar School, joined the Royal Australian Navy in January 1988 and is a graduate of the Royal Australian Naval College and the Australian Command and Staff College. He holds a Masters in Management Studies, a Master of Arts (Strategy and Policy) and a Graduate Diploma in Defence Studies. Captain Jones assumed duties as Director of the Sea Power Centre – Australia in December 2011.

Captain Jones is a Principal Warfare Officer with specialisations in surface warfare and advanced navigation. He has accumulated a significant amount of sea time in patrol boats, support ships, amphibious platforms, destroyers and frigates as a watch keeper, navigator, warfare officer and operations officer. His experiences include numerous deployments to the Asia-Pacific region, ranging across maritime security and counter terrorism, peace monitoring, sovereignty protection, operations in the Middle East, and extensive engagement with navies throughout the Asia-Pacific. He served as Executive Officer and second-in-command of the frigate HMAS Parramatta from late 2004 until mid 2006, a period which included a six month operational deployment to the Arabian Gulf supporting the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Iraq. This deployment resulted in the award of a Meritorious Unit Citation to Parramatta for its performance in the Gulf.

Captain Jones’s staff experience is diverse. He has served as an instructor at the Navigation Faculty of the RAN Surface Warfare School, on exchange with the Royal Navy as a Staff Warfare Officer within Flag Officer Sea Training in Devonport, Plymouth, as Operations Officer to Commodore Flotillas/Commander Deployable Joint Force Headquarters (Maritime), and as Commander Fleet Plans within Fleet Headquarters where he was responsible for fleet operational planning, exercise management and operational level international engagement. In Canberra, Captain Jones has been Deputy Director Navy Experimentation in Navy Strategic Command, and Director/Chief of Staff, Force Structure Review within Strategy Executive. In 2010, he undertook a short placement with the Lowy Institute for International Policy in , as the inaugural Navy Fellow.

Captain Jones was awarded the 2006 Vice Admiral Viscount Horatio Nelson KB Trafalgar Bicentennial Sword of Excellence for leadership, and is the inaugural recipient of this award.

Captain Jones had command of the upgraded guided missile frigate HMAS Newcastle from December 2008 to July 2010. In 2009, the ship was awarded the coveted Duke of Gloucester Cup for overall efficiency, the Spada Shield for the surface combatant foremost in operations, the Australia Cup for marine engineering excellence and the Category 1 - Leadership and Injury Prevention Safety Award. In 2010, the ship was awarded the Wormald Shield for combat survivability.

Captain Jones is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Navigation, a Fellow and Councillor of the London based Nautical Institute, and a Member and Councillor of the Australian Naval Institute. Now the Naval Associate at the Lowy Institute, he was a contributing author of the major Lowy Institute MacArthur Foundation paper Crisis and Confidence: Major Powers and Maritime Security in Indo-Pacific Asia. Captain Jones is a PhD candidate at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security, University of Wollongong. His research will examine Australian defence policy and maritime strategy in the Indian Ocean from the turn of the century.

Captain Jones is married to Terrie and has two daughters, all of whom reside in Sydney. In his spare time he enjoys water skiing, playing most team sports, reading and musical theatre.

Dr Alexander Kalloniatis

Alexander Kalloniatis is a Canberra-based senior analyst with Joint Operations Division of Australia’s Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO). He completed his PhD at the University of Adelaide in 1992 in theoretical particle physics and undertook research in that field for the following 13 years in Germany and the USA. Since coming to DSTO in 2005 he has conducted research into Command and Control (C2), using modelling, simulation and organisational science to contribute both to the ADF’s new Headquarters Joint Operations Command and the international C2 research literature. His interest in a range of periods of military history, including Roman, Byzantine and the 20th Century, have led to a number of papers fusing methods from mathematics and physics with the insights of historical analysis in a deepening understanding of C2.

Commodore Jack McCaffrie, RAN (Rtd)

Jack McCaffrie is a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security at Wollongong University, having retired from the RAN in February 2003 on returning from his final posting as Naval Attache, Washington. He is also completing a PhD at the Centre.

His recent work includes co-authoring Navies of Southeast Asia: A Comparative Study and (as a Visiting Fellow at the RAN’s Sea Power Centre) writing the second edition of the RAN’s doctrine publication Australian Maritime Operations.

He is currently working on a history of the Pacific Patrol Boat Program.

Dr John A Moses

John Moses, formerly Head of Department of History, University of Queensland, is currently a Professorial Associate of Charles Sturt University, Barton Campus, St Mark’s National Theological Centre. Having experienced all his post graduate training in Germany, most of his publication output has focussed on the German social democratic labour movement, German colonialism in the Pacific and the German historiography of the First World War, especially the ‘Fischer controversy’, as well as the church struggle in both Nazi and post-war communist Germany, on all of which he has published widely. His most recent publications include, Reluctant Revolutionary: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Collision with Prusso-German History (New York: Berghahn Books, 2009) and Anzac Origins: Canon DJ Garland and Trans- Tasman Commemoration (with George Davis) (Canberra: Barton Books, 2013. He is currently writing an evaluation of the ‘Fischer controversy’ after fifty years.

Dr Alexey D Muraviev

Alexey D Muraviev is a an award-winning senior lecturer in International Relations and Strategic Studies in the School of Social Sciences and Asian Languages at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. He is a Coordinator of the International Relations and National Security programs and the founder and Director of the Strategic Flashlight forum on national security and strategy at Curtin. He has about 50 publications on matters of national and international security, including two books and two research monographs.

His research interests include problems of modern maritime power, contemporary defence and strategic policy, Russia’s strategic and defence policy, Russia is a Pacific power, transnational terrorism, Australian national security, and other.

Alexey is a member of the Australian Member Committee, Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region (AU-CSCAP), member of Russia-NATO Experts Group, member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, reviewer of the Military Balance annual defence almanac, member of the Research Network for Secure Australia, member of the Australian Institute of International Affairs (W.A. branch), Royal United Services Institute of Western Australia, and other organisations and think tanks. In 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts has nominated Dr Muraviev as an ‘expert of international standing’. He advises members of state and federal government on foreign policy and national security matters and is frequently interviewed by state, national and international media.

Dr Peter Overlack

Dr Peter Overlack completed his Doctoral thesis in 1995 on the East Asian Cruiser Squadron as an instrument of German world-policy in the decade before 1914, and implications for Australasian defence. He held a DAAD (German Academic Exchange) Scholarship and a University of Queensland Postgraduate Award . He has had articles published in Australian Journal of Politics and History, Journal of Australian Studies, Journal of Military History (USA), Journal of Pacific History, Journal of Strategic Studies (UK), Journal of the Australian Naval Institute, The Historian (USA), War & Society, has contributed to several books, and has participated in international conferences on naval history. He currently teaches secondary History and is a freelance writer in Brisbane.

Stephen Prince

Stephen Prince is the Head of the Naval History Branch of the Royal Navy’s Naval Staff. He has particular responsibility for operational records and the historical input into current policy, and is the Policy Advisor for the UK’s Maritime Battlestaff. He is a graduate of Warwick University and King’s College London, where he received the Russell Prize. He has been Sir Robert Menzies Scholar at the AWM, a lecturer at Warwick and Britannia Royal Naval College and Senior Lecturer at the Joint Service Command & Staff College. His publications include articles in the Journal of Strategic Studies and Defence Analysis and The Royal Navy & the raids on St Nazaire and Dieppe published by Frank Cass.

Dr Duncan Redford

Duncan Redford is the Senior Research Fellow, Modern Naval History at the National Museum of the Royal Navy, and the Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Modern Naval History at the University of Portsmouth. Between 2008 and 2011 he was the Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies, University of Exeter, where his research looked at the relationship between the Royal Navy and British National Identity, 1870-1980. His doctoral research was awarded the Laughton Naval history Scholarship by King’s College London (2002-6) and investigated ‘The cultural impact of submarines on Britain 1900-1977’ which formed the basis of his first book Submarine: A Cultural History from the Great War to Nuclear Combat, published by I. B. Tauris in 2010. He is currently the general editor of a 14 volume series examining the history of the Royal Navy which will be launched at Easter 2014, to which he is contributing volumes on the Royal Navy in the Twentieth Century (2014), The Royal Navy in the Second World War (2014), and the Submarine Service (2017).

A former Royal Navy officer, Duncan joined the Navy in 1991 as a Warfare Officer, carrying out his initial training at Britannia Royal Naval College, HMS Broadsword and HMS Boxer, before being selected to do a BA (Hons) in Maritime Defence, Management and Technology at the Royal Naval Engineering College, Manadon. A volunteer for service in submarines, Duncan served on T class hunter-killer submarines at the Second Submarine Squadron, Devonport, and was the Navigating Officer of HMS Tireless and then HMS Turbulent. He left the Royal Navy in 2001.

Professor JR Schindler

John Schindler is professor of national security affairs at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, where he also teaches courses on intelligence and the First World War. He is chairman of the Partnership for Peace Consortium's Combating Terrorism Working Group, and a senior fellow at Boston University's International History Institute. He serves as a consultant to several agencies of the US and Allied governments. He previously served for nearly a decade with the National Security Agency as an intelligence analyst and counterintelligence officer. He is an officer in the US Navy Reserve and was the command historian for the Naval Security Group, the US Navy's cryptologic and information warfare agency. He has published widely on issues of intelligence, terrorism, and military history, and holds a PhD in European and military history from McMaster University.

His books include Isonzo: The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Great War (2001), Unholy Terror: Bosnia, Al-Qa'ida, and the Rise of Global Jihad (2007), The Terrorist Perspectives Project: Strategic and Operational Views of Al-Qa'ida (2008, co-author), and the forthcoming The Fall of the Double Eagle: The Battle for Galicia and the Demise of Austria-Hungary, Summer 1914 (2014).

Dr David M Stevens

David Stevens is a former naval officer, a graduate of the University of New South Wales (PhD) and the Australian National University (MA), and currently Director of Strategic and Historical Studies within the Sea Power Centre-Australia. He has contributed articles and essays to many publications and his work has been translated into several languages. His most recent books include: Australia’s Navy in the Gulf: From COUNTENANCE to CATALYST, 1941-2006 (2006 with Greg Nash); Sea Power Ashore and in the Air (2007 with John Reeve); Strength through Diversity: The Combined Naval Role in Operation STABILISE (2007); and Presence, Power Projection and Sea Control: The RAN in the Gulf 1990-2009 (2009 with John Mortimer). The Naval Records Society has also published his ‘Australian Naval Defence: Selections from the papers and correspondence of Captain WHCS Thring, 1913-1934’, in S Rose (ed.) The Naval Miscellany Vol VII (2008).

Dr Joe Straczek

Joe Straczek joined the RAN as a Junior Recruit in January 1971. He was commissioned as a Supply Officer in February 1977 and served in a number of administrative positions ashore, including a short period on loan to the Papua-New Guinea Defence Forces. He completed the RAN Staff Course in 1988 and was subsequently posted to Maritime Headquarters. LCDR Straczek transferred to the RANR in 1991 to take up the position of Senior Naval Historical Officer.

During his service with the RAN Joe Straczek became actively involved in naval history. As well as writing short articles for various magazines and journals he was associated in a volunteer capacity with the naval museums at NAS Nowra, HMAS Nirimba and HMAS Cerberus. Joe has served in various capacities on the committee of the Naval Historical Society of Australia as well as the Victorian and ACT Chapters of the Society.

Upon his transfer to the RANR, Joe Straczek was appointed as the Senior Naval Historical Officer, a position he held for over 12 years. During his time as the Senior Naval Historical Officer Joe compiled The Royal Australian Navy A-Z: Ships, Aircraft and Shore Establishments. He also developed the Naval History Policy which amongst other initiatives eventually saw the establishment of the Naval Heritage Centre at Garden Island and the deployment of naval historians to operational areas. He also played a major part in rejuvenating the research collections of the Naval Historical Section.

Joe is currently the Assistant Director Review and Support in the Directorate Classified Archival Records Review. Joe holds a BA (Deakin) and a Master of Defence Studies and a PhD from University College at ADFA.

Commander Greg Swinden, RAN

Greg Swinden was born in Parkes, NSW in 1966 and educated at Gosford on the NSW Central Coast. He joined the Navy in 1985 as a Midshipman and was trained at the RAN College and Australian Defence Force Academy; which he graduated from in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts (UNSW) majoring in History and Politics.

Following training at HMAS Cerberus, as a Supply Officer, he saw service in HMAS Swan (1988-89), (1989-90), HMAS Creswell (1990-93), HMAS Melbourne (1993-94), Naval Support Command (1995-96) and as a Divisional Officer at the Defence Academy (1996-97).

He was promoted Lieutenant Commander in 1998 and took up the role of RAN Liaison Officer at the Defence National Storage and Distribution Centre where he served until 2001. During this period he saw operational service in East Timor (Operation TANAGER) during April-June 2000 as the RAN Liaison Officer in HQ Force Logistics Support Group based in Dili.

Greg joined HMAS Kanimbla in mid 2001 and served onboard until December 2002 during which time the ship completed operational deployments to the Solomon Islands (Operation TREK), Persian Gulf (Operation SLIPPER) and border protection patrols (Operation RELEX II). In 2003-04 he served overseas as the RAN Liaison Officer in Singapore.

In 2005 he completed the Australian Command and Staff Course in Canberra which included the award of a Graduate Certificate in Maritime Studies from the University of Wollongong. Greg was then the Deputy Fleet Supply Officer (Sea Training Group) in 2006-07 based in Sydney. Promoted to Commander in 2008, he returned to the Australian Command and Staff College as Directing Staff (2008-09) before once again serving in HMAS Kanimbla as the Supply Officer (2010-11).

During June-December 2011, Greg served in the Middle East and Afghanistan as the J4 (Logistics) in HQ Joint Task Force 633 for which he was awarded a Chief of Joint Operations Gold Commendation. He took up his current position as the Deputy Director Sea Power Centre – Australia in January 2012.

Commander Swinden has written widely on a number of naval history topics and he is co-author of the book First In – Last Out: The Navy at Gallipoli, as well as several chapters in other books concerning RAN history. Greg and his wife Kathy reside in Canberra and have three teenage children.

Michael Wynd

Michael Wynd is currently the Military Historian/researcher at the Royal New Zealand Navy Museum located at HMNZS Philomel in Devonport, Auckland New Zealand. He is also responsible for maintaining and developing the research library and archival collection.

His areas of research interest include New Zealand’s naval history, the Royal Navy and its part in the national history, warfare in the period 1850-1918 focusing on combined operations, colonial warfare, the 1st New Zealand Division, and the technological developments and their impact on the battlefield. Presently, he is working a PhD on the New Zealand Division on the Western Front under the supervision of Professor Glyn Harper at the Centre for Defence Studies, Massey University.