Coastwatcher talk, Brisbane
A wonderful collaboration between PNGAA, NGVR/PNGVR Ex members Association and the NSAAQ saw close to 140 people attend the talk today by Philip Selth OAM on Coastwatchers JJ Murphy, Jack Read and Paul Mason....
Category: Battles and Campaigns
M.V. Mamutu by Chris Warrillow
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Memorial News September 2017
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75th Anniversary Montevideo Maru, Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
On 22 June 1942, 75 years ago, 1053 Australians boarded a Japanese hellship, Montevideo Maru, in Rabaul, the capital of the Australian Mandated Territory of New Guinea, and on 1 July 1942 every one...
75th ANNIVERSARY MEMORIAL SERVICE TO REMEMBER AUSTRALIA’S WORST MARITIME DISASTER
The unmarked Japanese prison ship Montevideo Maru was sunk by an American submarine off the Philippines on July 1, 1942 and more than 1,000 Australian soldiers and civilians perished. It remains Australia’s worst –...
PNGAA invites you to hear Philip Selth OAM speak on the Coastwatchers – JJ Murphy, Jack Read and Paul Mason
Philip Selth OAM, the retired Executive Director of the New South Wales Bar Association and retired CEO of the Australian Bar Association, came across the former New Guinea Patrol officer captain John Joseph...
22 June and 1 July 2017 – 75th Anniversary WWII Rabaul and New Guinea Islands
On 22 June 1942, nearly 75 years ago, 1053 Australians boarded a Japanese hellship in Rabaul, the capital of the Australian Mandated Territory of New Guinea, and on 1 July 1942 every one of...
Our National Myopia – A History Forgotten, by Max Uechtritz
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The Tol Plantation Massacre 4th February 1942 by Margaret L Henderson
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The Teapot Lid by Margaret L Henderson
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Papuan Carriers: The “Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels” of WW11 by Chris Warrillow
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75 Years On, Shocking Tol Massacre Forgotten in Australia and PNG: by Max Uechtritz
IT WAS one of the most callous atrocities of the Pacific war. Seventy-five years ago, 160 Australian prisoners were bayoneted, beheaded, shot or burned alive by Japanese troops – on what was then Australian...
Catalina Estate Mystery By Bob Piper
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The Montevideo Maru by Caitlin Nash
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When Home Was A Trip Through Hell
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’ epic escape from the Japanese on New Britain…a story rich in drama, courage, endurance and an indomitable will to survive.
