Vale Mary Louise Uechtritz
Rabaul the frangipani town has lost a flower Mary Louise Uechtritz passed away on Holy Thursday at Brigidine House, Randwick in Sydney on 29 April 2018. She was surrounded by children and grandchildren, her...
Rabaul the frangipani town has lost a flower Mary Louise Uechtritz passed away on Holy Thursday at Brigidine House, Randwick in Sydney on 29 April 2018. She was surrounded by children and grandchildren, her...
Team National Skydive Displays flew into Kimbe on 16 November 2017, just in time for the Opening Ceremony of the 2017 PNG National Games. We were there to participate in that ceremony, skydiving out...
I was privileged to attend The Sean Dorney Tribute dinner at the Wests Football Club in Toowong, Brisbane … and what a privilege to be witness to such a massive outpouring of respect from...
The first person killed by the Japanese Imperial Force in New Guinea was Pilot Kevin Parer at Salamaua on 21 Jan 1942. He had done dozens of flights across the Owen Stanley Ranges from...
Book Reviews: Aitape Story: the Great New Guinea Tsunami of 1998 by Hugh Davies, The Middle Kingdom: A Colonial History of the Highlands of Papua New Guinea by James Sinclair, Sivarai by Chips Mackellar. Aitape Story: the...
For the last year I have been based in Wau and in recent months I have been paying locals to clear away 2-metre high kunai in the old section of the Wau cemetery to...
It was a billion-dollar view from the poop deck of the Kawana Waters Hotel across the forest of masts in the adjoining marina, on Sunday 12 November when kiaps gathered for their 2017 reunion....
Continued from 2017, No. 4 – December issue pp 14-16 July 1960. Another posting, another piece of paradise. Prior to going on three months leave in March I advised head office of plans to...
(Submitted by Maurice’s wife, Mrs Elizabeth Meth) PNG Trade Winds blew East West East and trade in sea cargo followed the same way in expansion through plantations and their trading stations or ports. SHIPPING...
John HOLLAND (8 March 1939 – 10 April 2018) John was born in Atherton, Qld, to Frank and Mabel Holland who were living in New Guinea at the time so John went there shortly...
BELLIS Gerald (Gerry) Joseph | DIETZ, Thomas Antony | HONISETT, William Charles | LAMBDEN, Colleen | SMITH, Leonard “Frank” | UECHTRITZ Mary Louise | WALTERS, Noel Henry BELLIS Gerald (Gerry) Joseph (13.4.2018) ...