MEMORIAL NEWS
Tell Your Story! Remembrance Day, 11 November 2023 and RMvM’s online education Patrick Bourke, the RMvM Education Co-ordinator, continues to contact schools to share our story—but the association needs your help to do this...
Category: Vale, obituaries and tributes
VALES – Dec PNG Kundu 2023
HARRIS | HELEN & JIM | WEBER HARRIS, Gregory Vincent 23 August 2023 Greg passed away in Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide after a short illness. He was 75 years old. Greg’s early career...
Trepidations of a Female Student in Port Moresby – Dec PNG Kundu 2023
Sharon Banuk Not being apprehensive about your safety in public spaces is a luxury—one that I recently enjoyed as an ANU-UPNG Summer Scholar in Canberra. Sadly, this is not a luxury that is available for Papua...
VALES & TRIBUTES
BEIL | KENNY | OWEN | REDWOOD BEIL, Barry James 14 June 2023 Barry Beil spent 22 years in PNG from 1957 to 1979 and made a significant contribution to its economic development. He...
Admiral John Moresby RN
John Moresby was born on 15 March 1830 at Allerford, Somerset, England, second surviving son of Admiral Fairfax Moresby (1786–1877) and his wife Eliza Louisa, née Williams. Educated locally, he joined the Navy at 12...
VALES & TRIBUTES
CLARKE | DWYER JOAN | DWYER PETER | NAMALIU | STENNETT CLARKE, Prue OAM 25 August 2022 Prue was born in Port Moresby on 21 September 1939 and evacuated in 1941 with her mother,...
VALES & TRIBUTES
ASHTON | HOOK | MC DONALD | OAKES | QUINLIVAN | CAHILL | THURECHT ASHTON, Jeremy Claude 24 November 2022 Jeremy Ashton, born in July 1930, was educated at Winchester School and graduated MA at...
VALES & TRIBUTES – December 2022
ASMUSSEN, Alan | MILLS, John | SKINNER, David Ian Scott | Asmussen, Alan (5 July 2022) Alan Asmussen was born in Brisbane in 1938. He went to (then) TPNG in 1960 as a...
June Lovina Whittaker AM – Gaynor kaad
The family’s two-year adventure in the early sixties travelling through Europe and working in the UK and Canada had fuelled June’s desire to explore other countries. In 1972 she had an opportunity to visit...
VALE JUNE 2003
ABRAHAM, Eric (Abe) (20 April 1898 – 20 March 2003, aged 104 | BAGLEY, Emese (11 March 2003) |BRIGHTWELL, Merton Walter (Mert) (18 March 2003, aged 81) | BROMAN, Peter Alfred (23 March 2003,...
VALES & TRIBUTES – September 2022
ATKINS, Geoffrey Paul | BARTER, Sir Peter Leslie Charles | BAULCH, John Richard | COOTE Eric | DONOVAN, Rod | FAVETTA, Fulvio Sergio Renato (Fif) | FENBURY (nee Sheils), Helen Mary |...
June Lovina Whittaker AM by Gaynor Kaad
TEACHER, HISTORIAN, AUTHOR, FARMER & FRIEND Part 1 June Whittaker, who died on 8 February 2022, was a long-standing staff member of the Australian School of Pacific Administration/International Training Institute (ASOPA/ITI), a frequent visitor...
VALES & TRIBUTES – June 2022
ROACH, Henry Joseph (Harry) | WHITTAKER, June Lovina | SCRAGG, Elsie Joy PNGAA notes with regret the death of the following: ROACH, Henry Joseph (Harry) (22 January 2022) Late of Cooroy, Queensland. Advised...
VALE & TRIBUTES – March 2022
BOOTH, Nicholas Peter |BURTON, James Frederick | KERLEY, Fr Kevin | RAMPLING, Anita (née Larcher) | STEWART, Michael John | WILSON, Roger | WHITE, Benjamin J BOOTH, Nicholas Peter (22 November 2021, aged 76) Nick...
VALE – December 2021
ADAMSON Marie Therese (Elma) | ADAMSON, Charles (Charlie) William | EDDOWES, Peter J | FAITHFUL, Denys | GARNER, Michael John Patrick | GRAVES, Trevor Welford (Peter) | LANGMAN, Peter Albert | MELROSE, Leo |...
