Aviation photographs
Dennis Gray’s contribution is a compilation of photographs taken by his Uncle, Bill Gray (circa 1935-41), his father, Charles Gray (circa 1940-41), and himself during 1969-73. It is a wonderful collection of aviation history...
Category: Cultural insights
A DIDIMAN’S DIARY (Part 4)
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PNGAA Christmas Luncheon 2016 – 4 December 2016
When: Sunday 4 December 2016 from 11.30am onwards Where: Killara Golf Club, 556 Pacific Highway, Killara, NSW Cost: $65 per person RSVP: 19 November 2016 Contact Organiser: Sara Email: events@pngaa.net Payment to PNGAA, Bank CBA; BSB...
Book review: March 2016
The Flying Kangaroo by Jim Eames The Flying Kangaroo by Jim Eames Published in November 2015 by Allen and Unwin. ISBN: 978 1 76011 355 1, Softback and eBook, 344 pages, Black and White...
Book reviews: December 2015
Crocodile Prize Anthology 2015, Eds Philip Fitzpatrick & Keith Jackson Myth + magic: art of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea by Crispin Howarth Stone Age Moon by James O Hunter The Volcano’s Wife:...
Stone Age Moon by James O Hunter
Self-published, 2015, ISBN: 978-0-646-93973-5, Paperback, 308 pages, colour and B&W photos, maps. Available from: PO Box 591, Bowen QLD 4805, 07 47851285, huntdon@bigpond.com Cost: AU$65 plus $15 postage within Australia, Cheque or EFT payments to: JO...
The Volcano’s Wife: The Great Untold Story by Amalia Cowley and Pamela Virtue
Purchase – Now Inspiring Publishers, Calwell, ACT, Australia, 2015, ISBN 9781925152951, 208 pages, Paperback, Photographs, maps, index. Category: Memoir/Biography. Available from the PNGAA for $25.00 plus postage. This absorbing and heart-felt story will appeal...
The Kiaps Compendium – Part 2: World War II
Operational overview | Papua Infantry Battalion | New Guinea Volunteer Rifles | Ian Downs OBE | The last Papua Gazette | ANGAU | Peter Ryan MM | Coastwatchers | Ian Skinner MC | Les...
The Kiaps Compendium – Part 1: The end of an era
The outside men | Ivan Francis Champion, OBE| Louis James (Jim) O’Malley | Patrol Into Yesterday | Jack Hides, Son of Papua James Sinclair, Una Voce No 1, March 1992 The death of Jim...
The Kiaps Compendium – Part 6: Profiles of career Kiaps
Desmond Clifton-Basset | Michael Foley | William James Johnston | Frederick Peter Christian Kaad, OBE | Douglas John Parrish | Peter Sheekey | Royce Arthur Webb, MBE | Harry West Desmond Clifton-Bassett Des was...
The Kiaps Compendium – Part 5: And then it was all over
The end of another era Through the eyes of a Kiap, Bill Johnston By 1975, kiaps like me were becoming a dying breed. These men had brought the country to the stage of law...
The Kiaps Compendium – Part 4: Netherlands New Guinea
In 1958 Harry West served as the first Australian Liaison Officer in Netherlands New Guinea, based in what was then Hollandia, but he ended by doing much travelling because at that time the Indonesians...
The Kiaps Compendium – Part 3 Provisional Administration
ASOPA | District Services | Kiaps | Culture contact | Telefolmin | Des Clifton-Basset | Lyn Clark | Tribal warfare | Unusual incidents On 30 October a Provisional Civil Administration was restored to Papua...
Book reviews: September 2015
2014 Crocodile Prize anthology Pictorial history of Papua New Guinea compiled by Dianne McInnes PNGVR: A History 1950-1973 by Major Bob Harvey-Hall, RFD, ED (Retd) 2014 Crocodile Prize anthology I was delighted to receive...
A Chance Encounter
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