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Blamey,
Norman Harold
Son of Harold A. Blamey, Kew, Vic.
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02.10.1919
Brunswick, Vic.
-
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Austr. Army:
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Signalman
|
? [V 27667]
|
RANR:
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Ord.Sea.
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11.02.1942,
seniority 19.12.1941 [PM 4154]
|
T/A/S.Lt. (on
prob)
|
06.10.1942
|
T/A/S.Lt.
|
05.03.1943,
seniority 06.10.1942
|
T/S.Lt. (provl)
|
05.03.1943
|
T/S.Lt.
|
27.10.1944,
seniority 05.03.1943
|
T/Lt.
(provl)
|
27.10.1944 (reld
09.07.1946)
|
|
10.08.1940
|
|
|
enlisted
Australian Army
|
(1940?)
|
-
|
(1942?)
|
2nd Cavalry
Divisional Signals
|
11.02.1942
|
|
|
enlisted
RANR, Port Melbourne
|
11.02.1942
|
-
|
05.10.1942
|
HMAS
Cerberus (RAN base, Williamstown, Victoria) [07.09.1942-18.09.1942 sea service
at HMAS Bingera (minesweeper)]
|
06.10.1942
|
-
|
16.10.1942
|
HMAS
Cerberus (RAN base, Williamstown, Victoria)
(additional)
|
17.10.1942
|
-
|
13.01.1943
|
HMAS
Assault (RAN Combined Operations base, Nelson's Bay, Port Stephens, NSW)
[18.11.1942-09.12.1942 sea service at HMAS Westralia (armed merchant cruiser)]
|
14.01.1943
|
-
|
15.09.1945
|
HMAS
Manoora (armed merchant cruiser, from 02.02.1943 landing ship, infantry)
[26.01.1944 passed aircraft recognition
course of 5 days;
27.10.1944 modified Watchkeeping Certificate for signals on smaller vessels
only]
|
16.09.1945
|
-
|
01.1946
|
Commanding
Officer, HMAS Chinampa (stores lighter)
|
01.1946
|
-
|
02.1946
|
HMAS
Carpentaria (RAN base staff, Thursday Island) (and for armament store
accounting duties)
|
02.1946
|
-
|
23.06.1946
|
First
Lieutenant, HMAS Carpentaria (RAN base staff, Thursday Island)
|
24.06.1946
|
-
|
09.07.1946
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HMAS
Lonsdale (RAN base staff, Port Melbourne & Williamstown) (additional; for
discharge)
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Forwood,
Percy William
Son of Percival Henry Forwood (1875-?), and
Mary Anne Deex (1864-?).
Husband of Rhoda Thusnelda Strauss (born 1904), of Tepko, South Australia; one
son, one daughter.
|
22.01.1906
Woodville, South Australia
-
27.11.1941
(MPK) [age 35]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 60, column 2]
|
Midsh. (prob)
|
01.07.1924
|
Midsh.
|
1925?, seniority
01.07.1924
|
S.Lt. (prob)
|
01.04.1927
|
S.Lt.
|
1928, seniority
01.04.1927
|
Lt. (prob)
|
01.04.1929
|
Lt.
|
1930, seniority
01.04.1929
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
01.07.1941
|
|
12.03.1934
|
|
|
HMAS
Canberra (additional; for 6 days' training)
|
19.02.1936
|
|
|
HMAS
Stuart (additional; for 9 days' training)
|
17.05.1937
|
|
|
HMAS
Yarra (additional; for 13 days' training)
|
31.05.1937
|
|
|
HMAS
Yarra (additional; for 13 days' training)
|
30.08.1938
|
|
|
HMAS
Yarra (additional; for 12 days' training)
|
16.04.1940
|
|
|
mobilized
RANR
|
16.04.1940
|
-
|
18.04.1940
|
HMAS
Cerberus IV
|
19.04.1940
|
-
|
03.05.1940
|
HMAS
Penguin II
|
04.05.1940
|
-
|
27.11.1941
|
HMAS
Parramatta (sloop) (East Indies, from 06.1941 Mediterranean) (missing, presumed killed
when ship was torpedoed & sunk by U-559 northeast of Tobruk)
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Goller,
Gordon Melton James
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25.02.1912
Ballarat, Vict.
-
|
Midsh. (prob)
|
01.05.1930
|
Midsh.
|
12.1930?, seniority
01.05.1930
|
A/S.Lt.
|
01.03.1933
|
S.Lt.
|
01.01.1935
|
Lt.
|
01.10.1939
(demobilized 27.03.1946)
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
01.10.1947 (retd
02.10.1947) (resigned from Retired List of Reserve Officers 30.11.1964)
|
|
RD
|
1943?
|
?
|
|
|
MID
|
07.03.1947
|
service
in SW Pacific
|
|
09.09.1930
|
-
|
06.10.1930
|
HMAS
Canberra (cruiser) (additional; for 28 days' training)
|
18.01.1933
|
-
|
14.02.1933
|
HMAS
Australia (cruiser) (additional; for 28 days' training)
|
08.03.1934
|
-
|
03.04.1934
|
HMAS
Australia (cruiser) (additional; for 27 days' training)
|
01.10.1939
|
-
|
12.06.1941
|
HMAS
Sydney (light cruiser)
[notebable event sinking of Italian light cruiser
"Bartelomeo Colleoni" 19.07.1940]
|
13.06.1941
|
-
|
17.11.1941
|
HMAS
Torrens (base staff, South Australia) (for Naval Control Service)
|
18.11.1941
|
-
|
15.04.1943
|
HMAS
Melville (base staff, Darwin) (as Naval Control Service & Defence Equipped
Merchant Ships Staff Officer (and as S.T.?))
|
16.04.1943
|
-
|
08.10.1944
|
Naval
Control Service, HMAS Leeuwin (base staffs, Fremantle, Albany, Geraldton and
Port Hedland)
|
09.10.1944
|
-
|
(02?).1945
|
HMAS Ladava
(base depot, Milne Bay & Forward Areas) (additional; for convoy routeing
duties in Forward Areas & on staff of Commander Naval Base Northern
Solomons)
|
(02?).1945
|
-
|
09.1945
|
HMAS
Lursair? (additional; Naval Control Service Officer Northern Solomons)
|
09.1945
|
-
|
20.03.1946
|
HMAS
Lonsdale (base staff, Port Melbourne & Williamstown)
|
|
Gray,
Alan John
|
04.08.1912
Perth, West Australia
-
|
Sg.Lt.
|
01.03.1939
(demobilized 21.04.1941)
|
Sg.Lt.Cdr.
|
01.03.1945 (retd
26.11.1957)
|
|
Education: MB, BS
29.08.1939
|
-
|
04.04.1941
|
HMAS
Sydney (light cruiser)
[notebable event sinking of Italian
light cruiser "Bartelomeo Colleoni" 19.07.1940]
|
05.04.1941
|
-
|
21.04.1941
|
HMAS
Penguin (RAN depot, Sydney, NSW)
|
30.08.1954
|
|
|
HMAS
Albatross (additional; for two weeks' training)
|
17.09.1956
|
-
|
30.09.1956
|
HMAS
Albatross (additional; for two weeks' training)
|
|
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Harrington,
Charles Frederick
Son of native-born parents Hubert Ernest
Harrington, solicitor, and his wife Laura Irene, née Barton.
Brother of R.Adm. Sir Wilfred Hastings "Arch" Harrington, RAN.
|
22.06.1914
Eagle Junction, Brisbane, Queensland
-
27.11.1941
(MPK) [age 27]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 60, column 2]
|
Sg.Lt.
|
05.10.1940,
seniority 01.09.1939
|
|
|
DSC
|
08.01.1942
|
withdrawal
from Crete [decoration presented to next-of-kin]
|
|
Education: The King's School, Parramatta, NSW;
University of Sydney, NSW (MB, BS 1938)
05.10.1940
|
|
|
joined
RANR, Sydney
|
05.10.1940
|
-
|
01.01.1941
|
HMAS
Wyrallah (auxiliary patrol vessel) [tender to HMAS Penguin (additional)]
|
02.01.1941
|
-
|
27.11.1941
|
HMAS
Parramatta (sloop) (East Indies, from 06.1941 Mediterranean) (missing, presumed killed
when ship was torpedoed & sunk by U-559 northeast of Tobruk)
|
|
Horner,
Frank Benson
Son of Arthur Horner.
|
28.10.1917
Malvern, Vic.
-
2004
|
Prob. A/S.Lt.
|
06.12.1943
|
A/S.Lt.
|
?, seniority
06.12.1943
|
S.Lt.
|
06.06.1944
|
|
12.04.1943
|
|
|
enlisted
RANR
|
12.1943
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
undergoing
Fairmile course, HMAS Rushcutter
|
?
|
-
|
02.1945
|
HMA ML 431
(motor launch)
|
02.1945
|
-
|
03.1946
|
First
Lieutenant [later CO?], HMA ML 811 (motor launch)
|
04.03.1946
|
|
|
discharged
from HMAS Rushcutter
|
Published: Looking for LA Perouse :
D'Entrecasteaux in Australia and the South Pacific 1792-1793 (Miegunyah Press,
Series 2) (1995)
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Lenthall,
Edmund Terry
"Ned"
Son of
P/O Frederick Arundel Lenthall, RAAF
(1891-1972), and Kathleen E. Sadlier.
Married (22.11.1947, Pymble, NSW) Elaine "Betty" Hill (1926-); one
son, one daughter.
|
12.11.1923
Roseville, NSW
-
04.2010 still alive |
| Trooper |
15.12.1941
[NX78621] |
| Ord.Sea. |
29.03.1943 [O/NS
8276] |
| T/A/S.Lt. (prob) |
06.12.1943 |
| T/S.Lt. |
06.06.1944 (reld
25.03.1946) |
| S.Lt. RANVR |
26.03.1946,
seniority 06.06.1944 |
| Lt. RANVR |
06.06.1947 (reld
31.03.1958) |
 |
OAM |
? |
? |
|
|
15.12.1941 |
- |
28.03.1943 |
7th
Cavalry, then 2/7 Australian Armoured Regiment, Australian Imperial Force |
|
29.03.1943 |
- |
05.12.1943 |
enlisted
service, HMAS Cerberus |
|
06.12.1943 |
|
|
HMAS
Cerberus (additional) |
|
03.1944 |
|
|
HMAS
Cerberus (additional; for passge to UK in SS Priam) |
|
24.04.1944 |
|
|
HMS Irwell
(trawler base, Birkenhead) |
|
26.06.1944 |
|
|
HMS Lady
Madeline (armed trawler) |
|
21.07.1944 |
|
|
HMS
Ayrshire (anti-submarine warfare trawler) |
|
30.10.1944 |
|
|
HMS Elfin
(submarine base, Blyth) |
|
03.01.1945 |
|
|
HM LST 410
(landing ship, tank) |
|
30.10.1945 |
|
|
HMAS Penguin (additional) |
|
05.03.1946 |
|
|
HMAS Rushcutter (additional) |
First president, Norfolk Island Rotary Club. |
| |
|
|
|
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Manton,
Mayne Mervyn Morris
|
25.11.1920
Hurstville, NSW
-
23.09.1988
London ?
|
S.Lt.
|
?
|
Lt.
|
25.05.1943 (reld
15.07.1946)
|
|
05.09.1939
|
|
|
joined RANR
|
11.10.1942
|
-
|
(02.1943)
|
HMAS
Southern Cross (examination service yacht)
|
24.05.1943
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
HMAS Ararat
(K.34; minesweeping sloop)
|
10.1944
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMAS Bundaberg
(J.231; minesweeping sloop)
|
|
-
|
15.07.1946
|
discharged
from HMAS Rushcutter * (RAN anti-submarine training establishment &
reserve depot, Edgecliff, Sydney, NSW)
* another source gives HMAS Kuttabul (RAN
depot, Sydney, NSW)
|
Left Australia after the war and came to the UK
to become a lecturer in Photogrammetry & Survey at the City University in London.
|
Martin,
Joseph Richard
|
05.08.1905
Gisborne, North Island, New Zealand
-
30.09.1987
|
Prob. T/Eng.Lt.
|
03.03.1942
|
T/Eng.Lt.
|
10.1942,
seniority 03.03.1942 (reld 20.02.1947)
|
Eng.Lt. RANVR
|
21.02.1947,
seniority 03.03.1942 (retd 21.08.1963)
|
|
10.1941
|
|
|
applies
for appointment as an Engineer Lieutenant in the Royal Australian Naval
Reserve (Seagoing)
|
03.03.1942
|
|
|
commissioned
|
16.03.1942
|
|
|
mobilised,
assumes full-time service and is appointed to HMAS Rushcutter (base staff,
Sydney), additional, for HMAS Lonsdale (base staff, Victoria)
|
02.04.1942
|
|
|
HMAS
Lonsdale
(base staff, Victoria)
|
08.06.1942
|
|
|
Assistant
to the Base Engineering Officer for service with auxiliary vessels and small
craft, HMAS Melville (base staff, Darwin)
|
31.05.1944
|
|
|
HMAS
Townsville
(minesweeper)
|
01.08.1946
|
|
|
HMAS
Leeuwin
(base staffs Fremantle, Albany & Broome)
|
23.08.1946
|
|
|
HMAS
Cerberus
(RAN base, Williamstown, Victoria)
|
11.02.1947
|
|
|
HMAS
Rushcutter (base staff,
Sydney) (for demobilisation)
|
|
McAuley,
Kenneth Douglas
|
21.10.1921
Sydney, NSW
-
08.11.1974
Canberra
|
T/S.Lt.
|
14.05.1943 [S/4234]
|
Lt.
|
14.11.1945 (reld
22.02.1946)
|
|
01.07.1940
|
|
|
enlisted,
Port Melbourne
|
|
|
|
training in
the US, before serving in the UK (perhaps at HMS Proserpine, RN base, Scapa
Flow))
|
15.11.1943
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
HMS Oribi
(destroyer)
|
20.03.1945
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS
Camperdown (destroyer)
|
22.02.1946
|
|
|
discharged
from HMAS Rushcutter (RAN anti-submarine training establishment &
reserve depot, Edgecliff, Sydney, NSW)
|
|
McHugh,
Leo Dominic
|
05.11.1899
London, UK
-
16.04.1978
Wellington, NSW
[Wellington
Lawn Cemetery, Ang. F.23] |
| Prob. T/S.Lt. RNR |
28.06.1940 |
| T/Lt. RNR |
28.09.1940 |
| T/Lt. |
15.06.1942,
seniority 28.09.1940 (reld 04.01.1946) |
|
Served Merchant Navy.
|
28.06.1940 |
- |
31.101.1941 |
HMS Cricket
(gunboat) |
|
01.02.1941 |
- |
(12.1941) |
HMS
Aberdare (minesweeper) |
|
15.06.1942 |
- |
12.07.1942 |
HMAS
Themistocles [HMAS Rushcutter (RAN base, Sydney, NSW)] |
|
13.07.1942 |
- |
? |
HMAS
Maitland (RAN base, Newcastle, NSW) (for examination service) |
|
? |
- |
01.06.1943 |
HMAS
Maitland (RAN base, Newcastle, NSW) (for Naval Control Service) |
|
01.06.1943 |
- |
12.08.1944 |
HMAS
Magnetic (RAN base, Townsville), from 01.10.1943 HMAS Platypus (RAN base, Cairns
& Thursday Island) (as Naval Control Service Officer and Sea Transport Officer,
Augusta) |
|
13.08.1944 |
- |
09.1944 |
Commanding
Officer, HM HDML 1323 (harbour defence motor launch) |
|
09.1944 |
- |
12.10.1944 |
HMAS
Magnetic (RAN base, Townsville)] (as Naval Control Service Officer and Sea
Transport Officer, Merauke) |
|
13.10.1944 |
- |
04.1945 |
HMAS
Moreton (RAN base, Brisbane) (for Naval Control Service) |
|
04.1945 |
- |
16.12.1945 |
HMAS
Melville (RAN base, Darwin) (additional; for Naval Control Servie) |
|
17.12.1945 |
- |
04.01.1946 |
HMAS
Rushcutter (additional; for release) |
|
Melville,
Arthur Roland
Son of Rev. Charles Julian Melville, and
Anna Stewart Chardler.
Married Violet Gladys Crisp; ... children (one son?).
|
21.06.1883
Jamaica
-
17.08.1959
Australia
|
T/Lt.
|
28.08.1939 (reld
03.05.1944; at own request)
|
|
29.11.1916
|
-
|
21.03.1919
|
Temporary
Lt. RNR
|
28.08.1939
|
-
|
31.07.1940
|
joined
RANR(S), HMAS Cerberus III (for base staff)
|
01.08.1940
|
-
|
08.11.1943
|
HMAS Lonsdale (base staff, Victoria)
|
09.11.1943
|
-
|
03.05.1944
|
HMAS Huon (base staff, Tasmania)
(for examination service)
|
|
| S |
|
|
|
Simpson,
James Houston
Married (1941, Mosman) Mrs Grace Evelyn Smith (née Taylor).
|
19.02.1905
Ayr, Scotland
-
17.09.1999 |
Midsh. (prob)
|
19.02.1923
(appointment terminated 30.06.1928)
|
Lt. (prob)
|
01.06.1934
|
Lt.
|
1935?, seniority
01.06.1934
|
A/Lt.Cdr.
|
22.10.1941
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
01.06.1942
(demobilized 30.10.1945) (retd 31.10.1948)
|
|
|
RD
|
17.07.1944
|
?
|
|
|
MID
|
27.12.1940
|
sinking of Italian light cruiser
"Bartelomeo Colleoni"
|
|
06.07.1923
|
-
|
02.08.1923
|
training,
HMAS Penguin (RAN depot, Sydney, NSW) (additional)
|
24.10.1934
|
-
|
20.11.1934
|
training,
HMAS Vendetta (destroyer) (additional)
|
14.01.1936
|
-
|
10.02.1936
|
training,
HMAS Cerberus (RAN base, flinders Naval Depot, Vict.) (additional)
|
08.08..1939
|
-
|
08.06.1941
|
HMAS
Sydney (light cruiser)
[notebable event sinking of Italian light cruiser
"Bartelomeo Colleoni" 19.07.1940]
|
09.06.1941
|
-
|
01.08.1941
|
HMAS
Penguin (RAN depot, Sydney, NSW) (additional)
|
02.08.1941
|
-
|
18.08.1942
|
HMAS
Adelaide (light cruiser) (for navigating duties)
|
19.08.1942
|
-
|
01.1945
|
Commanding
Officer, HMAS Toowoomba (minesweeper) [based at HMS Leeuwin, from 27.11.1942
at HMAS Napier]
|
10.02.1945
|
-
|
12.05.1945
|
HMAS
Penguin (RAN depot, Sydney, NSW) (additional)
|
13.05.1945
|
-
|
10.1945
|
HMAS
Manoora (landing ship)
|
10.1945
|
-
|
30.10.1945
|
HMAS
Rushcutter (RAN reserve depot, Edgecliff, Sydney, NSW) (additional)
|
|
| |
|
|
|
