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...
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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.
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
AISBETT, Margaret – 19 July 2020 ALLAN, Valerie (née Grant) – 8 May 2020 age 83 Valerie was born in Adelaide on 28 January 1937 to Methodist Missionary parents, Dawn and Ralph Grant....
VALE – Sept 2020 Kundu
BENJAMIN, Max – 15 July 2020, aged 72 Max Benjamin trained as an agri-culturalist at Muresk Agricultural College at Northam, east of Perth in Western Australia. He went to West...
Vale – Kundu June 2020
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,...
Vale – Una Voce Dec 2015
With deep regret we record the passing of the following members and friends: Donald James Buckley Peter Frederick Davis Victor Leslie Davis Betty Evelyn Dent David Alexander Bruce Dryden Val Fisk Ann Theona Graham...
Vales – Kundu Mar 2020
Vale: BENHAM, Bill; BLADWELL, Murray; CROYDEN, Barbara; DUGGAN, Daniel Joseph; MONTGOMERY, David, AM; RIDGES, Jim; SUTHERLAND, Robert A; TONER, Jim, BEM; WESTON, Inez Lesley; ZEHNDER, John O BENHAM, Bill 22 November 2019, aged 86 Elga William ‘Bill’ Benham was born on 29...
Vale – Una Voce Dec 2019
Vale: FRODIN, David Gamman; HENTON, David Gordon; McGRATH, Bill; McILWAIN, Garth, CBE; SAMIN, Denis Charles; TANNER, Arthur Charles; TAYLOR, Graham; TRONSON, Allan David. FRODIN, David Gamman d. 12 August 2019, aged 79 David Frodin (aka Frodo) passed away on 12 August...
The Passing of Pacific Man: A Tribute to William Adrian ‘Bill’ McGrath 1932 – 2019 by Chips MacKellar
Bill’s journey to PNG in 1953 was only the beginning of a remarkable odyssey which truly made him the epitome of the legendary Pacific Man. For not only did Bill serve in PNG, he...
Gabriel Samol—One of PNG’s Forest Statesmen
Gabriel was born on Manus Island, and graduated in forestry in 1971 from the Bululo Forestry College. In government service he rose to the level of Assistant Secretary in the Department of Forest. He...
Judy Terrell—Lifetime Partner of an Ex-Kiap by CE Tim Terrell, AM
I met Judy in PNG in March, 1956. Shortly before, I had been brought in to Port Moresby from Lake Kutubu in the Southern Highlands where I had been a patrol officer for four...
Willis Talbot Crocker—a Lark Force survivor
Willis grew up in Melbourne then worked on stations in Queensland and NSW during the Depression. He returned to Melbourne in 1940 to enlist in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF), and his service number...
Two School Friends in the War in Papua New Guinea The Brave Coastwatcher with the ‘Golden Voice’: Leigh Vial 1909–43
Leigh Grant Vial, patrol officer and coastwatcher, was born on 28 February 1909 at Camberwell, Melbourne, eldest of four sons of Victorian-born parents, Stanley Browning Vial, school proprietor, and his wife Mary, née Smith....
Sir Michael Somare & PNG by Ian Taukuro
Ian Taukuro was in Grade 6 at Korobosea Primary School, where my wife taught, whilst I was working at Air Niugini 1979–88. In 2017 he gave this to her as a commentary on the...
