The Kiaps Compendium – Part 2: World War II
Operational overview | Papua Infantry Battalion | New Guinea Volunteer Rifles | Ian Downs OBE | The last Papua Gazette | ANGAU | Peter Ryan MM | Coastwatchers | Ian Skinner MC | Les...
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The Kiaps Compendium – Part 1: The end of an era
The outside men | Ivan Francis Champion, OBE| Louis James (Jim) O’Malley | Patrol Into Yesterday | Jack Hides, Son of Papua James Sinclair, Una Voce No 1, March 1992 The death of Jim...
The Kiaps Compendium – Part 5: And then it was all over
The end of another era Through the eyes of a Kiap, Bill Johnston By 1975, kiaps like me were becoming a dying breed. These men had brought the country to the stage of law...
The Kiaps Compendium – Part 4: Netherlands New Guinea
In 1958 Harry West served as the first Australian Liaison Officer in Netherlands New Guinea, based in what was then Hollandia, but he ended by doing much travelling because at that time the Indonesians...
The Kiaps Compendium
Compiled and edited by Nancy Johnston Dedicated to the memory of William James (Bill) Johnston 1 October 1924 – 12 September 2001 A Kiap of the Territory of Papua & New Guinea Bill...
