Wartime in PNG
The following images have been donated to the PNGAA Collection from someone who was in the AITAPE area. Unfortunately we do not have any captions on any of the photos . . . nor...
Category: World Wars
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2024 NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge This aims to encourage a love of reading for leisure and pleasure in students, and to enable them to experience quality literature. It is not a competition but a...
Honouring Max
Part Two: Max Macgowan & John May, Rabaul, 1941 By Tempe Macgowan (TM) & Marian May (MM) This article continues from Part One of the PNG Kundu June 2024 issue. It was co-written by...
WHEN HOME WAS A TRIP THROUGH HELL By Robert Coleman
Part 1 of 2 in Una Voce June 2014 Here is the story of one man’s war. It is a microcosm of the overall conflagration, the story of a small party of stragglers’...
BOOK LAUNCH KOKODA LEGEND-CAPTAIN SAM TEMPLETON by David Howell
When: Wednesday 3 July 2024, 6 for 6.30pm Where: East Malvern RSL, Stanley Grose Dr, Malvern East VIC 3145. Cost: Free (finger food & open bar will be provided to guests on the night)...
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Anzac Day EVENTS, Rabaul 2024 As I landed in Rabaul, the skilled, female Air Niugini pilot slammed on the brakes. It was effective because we then cruised into the terminal in fairly leisurely fashion. Passengers...
The Story of the Wartime Kokoda Trail: Sorting Fact from Fiction
Peter Jesser The battle for the Kokoda Trail occupies a significant place in Australian military history. Much of the fighting to stem the Japanese advance across the Owen Stanley Range was intense, close-quarter combat...
Honouring Max
Part One Max Macgowan & John May, Rabaul, 1941 Tempe Macgowan (TM) & Marian May (MM) This article was co-written by Tempe Macgowan and Marian May, honouring the life of Max Macgowan, one of...
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Silentworld Foundation Commemorative Dinner with the Australian Prime Minister A commemorative dinner was held on Monday 27 November 2023 in the Aircraft Hall at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra to honour all those...
Memorial Service in Japan – Peter Ryan
Recently I was invited as a special guest to a moving ceremony in Kochi – on the island of Shikoku, Japan. This ceremony was the Japan/New Guinea War Veterans Memorial Service, conducted by the...
Australia’s Worst Air Crash Commemorated Eighty Years On
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The Wartime Ordeal of Interned Missionaries – Dec PNG Kundu 2023
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Last Post Ceremony
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What Happened to the People of Papua New Guinea in World War II By John B Quinn
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Finding the MV Montevideo Maru – 1 August 2023 – Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne
The loss of the Montevideo Maru is the worst maritime disaster in Australian history, and until 2023, the exact location of its final resting place remained a mystery. Its discovery in April off the...
