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,...
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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.
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...
Vale – Una Voce Sep 2019
Vale: BEINSSEN, Walter (‘Wally’); COSGROVE, Hank; DODD, Brian; HILL, Richard Christopher; JOHNS, Prof. Robert James; Le FEVRE, Laurence David; O’NEIL, Rita Rosemary (née Gough); ROBBINS, Douglas George; TAYLOR, Rev. Allen Leslie; TERRELL, Judith Ann, née Robinson; BEINSSEN, Walter (‘Wally’) d. 5 January...
Funeral Service for Bill McGrath
Family and friends of Bill McGrath are invited to attend his funeral service to be held at the Parkview Chapel, Allambe Gardens Memorial Park, Nerang-Broadbeach Road, Nerang on Thursday 8th August 2019 at 11am....
Vale Richard Hill
A service for Richard Christopher Hill 28 January 1936 – 30 June 2019 will be held at 10.30 on Tuesday 9 July 2019 at 202 Eumundi-Noosa Rd, Noosaville QLD 4566 With refreshments to follow...
VALE – Una Voce Jun 2019
Vale: BAKER, Tony Clarence A; ENSOR, Norman Leslie, OAM; FLETCHER, Charles Thomas; LAMB, David; LARNER, Muriel, née MacGowan, MBE; MITCHELL, Bevan Charles; PERRY, Graham Arthur; PETERSEN, Brian Francis; POPLE, Graham HJ, MBE; SOMAL, Gabriel; SWEENEY, John Joseph; WETHERELL, Ildikó...
‘We are not here for ourselves alone’ GRAHAM HENRY JOHN POPLE, MBE 1935–2019
He loved his adopted country and the people within it—although he retired to Australia, his heart remained in Papua New Guinea, and he retained his PNG citizenship until his passing. Graham Pople’s life work...
