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Letter: Exmouth Gulf – Submariners’ Haven – Onslow

Letter Writer · Mar 1, 2022 ·

Dear Editor, With reference to the Fuel Storage Tanks segment of the Exmouth Gulf – Submariners’ Haven article by Colin Randall published in the December edition of the Naval Historical ...

Letter: Formation of the Royal Australian Navy

Letter Writer · Dec 20, 2020 ·

Re: Naval Historical Review Vol. 41 No 73 Sept. 2020, An Essay on the Forming of the Royal Australian Navy by Midshipman Lloyd Skinner Dear Editor I read Lloyd’s essay ...

Letter: The Palace letters

Letter Writer · Sep 20, 2020 ·

On 14 July 2020 previously secret correspondence between the then Governor General Sir John Kerr and Her Majesty the Queen was published by the National Archives of Australia 45 years ...

Letter: The 9/11 Boatlift

Letter Writer · Dec 25, 2019 ·

Almost coincidentally we recently received correspondence from two readers, Megan Hughes and Tony Maskell, asking if we had knowledge of the 9/11 Boatlift Memorial in New Jersey. We trust the ...

An Essay on the Royal Australian Navy’s Involvement in Support of the Compromised SRD Operations in Timor 1943-1945

Letter Writer · Sep 29, 2019 ·

By Sub Lieutenant Nicholas Seton RAN …I feel so sad. What a waste – what a stuff up. It makes one feel a little bitter about the poor intelligence andcommunications ...

Letter: The Moresby Disc at Somerset

Letter Writer · Sep 2, 2019 ·

As this edition of the Review contains an in-depth article on Cape York and Somerset it is opportune to include this discussion point. An example of one of the many ...

Letter: Up and Downers

Letter Writer · Sep 2, 2019 ·

We had quite a few responses to the article on Up and Downers in the June 2019 issue with the following which addresses most issues. Dear Editor I enjoyed the ...

Letter: Victoria Crosses awarded to Civilians

Letter Writer · Jun 6, 2019 ·

The topic of Victoria Crosses (March 2019) never ceases to arouse interest and we have two similar emails from Ken Green and Tony Maskell who invite us to visit the ...

Letter: They Also Served– LCDR Frank Derek Simon RD RANR (S)

Letter Writer · Jun 6, 2019 ·

  Mike Turner says he found the article on Frank Simon (March 2019) most interesting, particularly the Merchant/RANR(S) overlap. However, one small error is noted on page 22: It is ...

Letter: HMS Shropshire and Rex the mascot

Letter Writer · Mar 26, 2019 ·

The following email was recently received by our Research desk with a photograph of a handsome canine nattily decked out as a Leading Seaman Gunner with two Good Conduct Badges. ...

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