(first published in the September 1999 issue of the PNGAA Journal, Una Voce, and reformatted for the PNGAA website in January 2015) Forty years ago, the Coastwatchers Memorial Lighthouse, at the entrance to Madang...
(Published Una Voce, June 2002, page 14) This is the story of Gladys Baker’s escape from the Japanese as she described it on Radio 2FC at 7.45pm on Sunday night, 27 August 1942. Glad...
Extract from a letter written by Hilda Johnson to a close friend – published Una Voce, December 1997, page 30 and in Tales of Papua New Guinea, page 65. The letter was written some...
The first time that my parents heard of the impending invasion of New Guinea by Japanese forces was on Boxing Day, 1941. At that time we were at Korandindi Plantation on the Mavulu River...
Fuzzy Wuzzy AngelsDedicated to Sapper Victor Cooke, 2/22nd Field Coy, R.A.E. Many a mother in Australia, When the busy day is done, Sends a prayer to the Almighty For the keeping of her...
25 April 2015 marks the 100 years anniversary of the unsuccessful, but often heroic, troop landings, and eventual withdrawal, at Gallipoli in Turkey in the 1914-18 World War. The shared experiences and losses gave...
