Category: Vale
The recent history of Papua New Guinea is intimately bound up with the people who made PNG their home and, in many cases, their life’s work.
It is therefore fitting, but also with deep regret, that we record the passing of members and friends.
VALES PNGK Sept 2021
Andrews, Roy John; | GRIFFIN, John, QC; | OLIVER, Norman Francis; | Thistlethwaite, Dr Robert; Andrews, Roy John 28 April 2021 Roy, born 1 January 1937, was one of twenty-six Cadet Patrol Officers...
James Henry Woo OBE
The following is a eulogy given by Warren Woo and published in Kundu News Issue 69 Jan-Feb-Mar 2019, Newsletter of the Papua New Guinea Chinese Catholic Association of Australia 26/12/1939 – 11/11/2018 On Sunday,...
Vale Una Voce June 2016
Geoffrey BASKETT MBE | Faole BOKOI | Michael Anthony CORCORAN | Gavin Sydney DALE| Peter HILL | Barbara-Anne Laver | Geoffrey Alan Kenney | Stanley John MARSH | Allan Thomas McDONALD | John Edgar...
Vale – Una Voce March 2016
Dorrie Allwood | Colin Robert Benton | Jim Birrell | John Roy Hartley Burnell | Stanley Lionel Burton | George Cockram | Brian Costello, Elizabeth Foulger | Peter Gabriel | John Matthijs Theodor Groenewegen...
VALES PNGK June 2021
Andrews, Roy | HOSKING, Jennifer | KEMSLEY, James Herbert | LITTLER, Patricia (Trish) | ORR, Robbie | Stocker, Dr Geoff | WALKER, Marjorie Louise | Worcester, Jack William Andrews, Roy – 28...
A Trail-Blazing Maritime Strategist VICE ADMIRAL PETER JONES, ANI President – PNGK June 2021
On 18 October 2020 Commodore Sam Bateman, AM, RAN, died aged eighty-two. He was one of the leading maritime strategists of his generation and has left a significant legacy. Sam was born in Cottesloe,...
Farewell to the Grand Chief PNGK June 2021
Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare,GCL GCMG CH CF SSI KStJ KSG PC 9 April 1936 – 26 February 2021 Known as the Father of the Nation and Papa Blo Kantri, Sir Michael led PNG...
Vale Andrew Peacock AC GCL
Andrew Peacock AC GCL, former Australian Liberal minister, has passed away on 16 April 2021 aged 82 years. He played an instrumental role in ushering PNG towards independence in 1975. After being recognised for...
Vale – PNG Kundu March 2021
CAMPBELL, Colin Thomas| CAVANAGH, Noel Joseph | DAY, Murray Kenneth | DONALDSON, Claude Kenneth | DONE, Christopher Charles | GUEST, Ann Patricia (Pat) | MORAUTA, Sir Mekere, KCMG | OWEN-TURNER, Lynette (Lyn) |...
Vale Frederick Peter Christian KAAD, OBE
Heartfelt thoughts go to Gaynor Kaad, to her sisters Amanda and Deborah, and to the family of our long serving Patron, Fred Kaad OBE, who passed away this morning, 9 February 2021. The Papua...
Major General the Hon. Michael Jeffery AC, AO(Mil), CVO, MC (Retd) by Max Uechtritz
SYDNEY –A great Australian, former governor-general, Major-General Michael Jeffery AC GCL CVO MC, died on Friday at the age of 83. General Jeffery had a close association with Papua New Guinea as the...
Vale Murray Day – 6 December 2020
Murray Day lived in PNG from 1970 to 1983. He joined the Department of Forestry in 1970 as a senior draftsman at Konedobu (Port Moresby). After six months he was transferred to the Forestry...
PNGAA Vale – PNG Kundu December 2020
AISBETT, Margaret; ALLAN, Valerie (née Grant); BOURKE, Myra Jean (née Schafferius); BOURKE, Peter; DUNBAR-REID, Richard; DYER, Keith Dyer, ISO; FOWKE, John Philip, FURNESS, Norman Harold; GUEST, Ann Patricia ‘Pat’; HUNTER, Richard (Dick), Campbell; MUNKLEY,...
VALE – Sept 2020 Kundu
BENJAMIN, Max | BLOINK, Dixie RF | CARSWELL, Agnes (née Gangloff) | Claringbould, Joan (née Alder) | COX, Kenneth (Ken) Brian | DRAKE, Peter John | FRANCIS, James (Jim) | KNIGHTS, John | MANLEY,...
