C.O. (Bill) Harry: Frazer Harry
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...
Category: People & Places
Gwen Dyer: Barry Dangerfield
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...
Some biographical notes on pre-war New Guinea administrative staff: Philip Selth
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...
Biographical notes on pre-war PNG identities: Philip Selth
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...
Harry West’s eulogies: Andrea Williams, Bill Brown and Ross Johnson
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...
Chu Leong: Rod Noble
During WW 2, after the Pearl Harbor attack, when Japanese forces were rapidly conquering Pacific islands, the Australian Government decided to evacuate expatriates from its Papua and from its New Guinea mandated territories: but...
A visit with King Cam of Kitava: David P Eyre
I was a Medical Assistant and part of an Anti-TB team that visited the Trobriands to find people with active tuberculosis and to protect susceptible people with BCG vaccine. If my memory serves me...
Captain RR Cole, MC: Bob Harvey-Hall
1968 Igam Barracks L-R: Capt Bob Cole wearing the rank of Colonel as Hon Col of PNGVR, Lt Col Don Ramsay CO 2 PIR, Brig Ian Hunter, Commander PNG Command, Lt Col Mal Bishop...
Kay Cole’s introduction to New Guinea: Bob Cole
(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...
Arrival in Popondetta, 1947: Marjorie Kleckham
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...
Vale – Una Voce June 2015
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...
Vale March 2015
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) |...
Goroka revisited
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...
Vale December 2014
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)...
Vale September 2014
ASHWORTH, Evelyn Jean (March 2014) | BAMFORD, Geoffrey Newton (17 June 2014) | CORFIELD, Grahame Lester (2014) | CREEDY, Barry John | (25 June 2014) DUNCAN, Robert (Bob) (21 March 2014) | FOPP, David...
