The name “Evennett” is familiar to anyone who has spent time in Samarai. Ernie Evennett’s forebears lived in Essex, England. Sometime around the middle of the 19th Century, three Evennett brothers migrated to Australia....
Patrick considered it ‘a great privilege’ to be asked to pay tribute to Peter Figgis’ remarkable wartime service at Peter’s funeral. He said: ‘I hope I can do justice to an extraordinary man’. The...
The guest speaker at the annual Adelaide Reunion Luncheon, on Sunday 25 October 2009 at the Public Schools Club, was Peter Routley, Headmaster of Keravat Senior High School from 1975 to 1977. Guests were...
PNGAA member Claire Inchbold has kindly provided a memoir of life in New Guinea prepared by her father, Fred Holland. As it was not intended for publication, she has requested that access be restricted...
Bill led an extremely interesting and varied life in both PNG and Australia. He died in Melbourne, after several months of ill health, on 4 January 2011, aged 94. Bill started life in a...
From the Eulogy delivered by Rev. Barry Dangerfield on behalf of the family Gwen married Keith Dyer in 1948 and they sailed to Taskul, New Hanover, Papua New Guinea, where he was the Patrol...
I am writing a biography of John Joseph ‘Mangrove’ Murphy (1914-1997), New Guinea Patrol Officer, Coastwatcher, POW, District Commissioner. As part of my research into John Murphy’s life, I am endeavouring to prepare brief...
Jack Eric Daymond was born in Launceston on 26 April 1904. He was an active sportsmen, and played senior grade with the Launceston Football Club and pennant cricket with the Esk Cricket Club. At...
These are eulogies from the funeral of Harry West, OAM, held on 21 July 2015 Andrea Williams Harry was a dear friend to so many of us and we miss him. He was humble...
(Published Una Voce, March 1993, page 16) Bob Cole’s career in Papua New Guinea spanned the years 1938 to 1968. Bob was in District Services and Native Affairs, serving in the Sepik, Bougainville, Western...
Two children; lost plane; torrential rain; soggy suitcases; barefoot trek and a missing husband! Marjorie Kleckham’s father, Geoffrey Sheldon, was a surveyor in PNG. He surveyed the Bulldog Road which eventually became the...
BARTLETT, Enid Ann Edgeworth (née Saunders) (1 February 2015) | BEADLE, Doreen (6 April 2015) | BRIGGS, Margaret Jacquelyn (29 November 2014) | DOWLING, Joan | (21 April 2015) | FILAN, Dennise Margaret (31...
ADAMS, John “Didiman” (4 January 2015) | BARTLETT, Anne (01 Feb 2015) | BONNETT, Kenneth Malcolm (20 June 2009) | BONNICK, Roger Hugh (22 December 2014) | COOPER, Noel Vincent (9 November 2014) |...
In my article Cruise to Rabaul, I ended saying how I had found, among the people I met, “…an eagerness for the upcoming elections and the hope that a new government could set PNG...
BOOIJ, Jan (Snr) (3 August 2014) | CLEZY, Gweneth Dorothy (13 June 2014) | DENT, Oswald George Gordon | (6 August 2014) | GAULT, Roly (14 October 2014) | JOHNSON, Granger (22 July 2014)...
