In my case I went before it was fashionable and the hospitality was less than the travel agents would have you believe. Not that the natives could be held to ...
Biographies and personal histories
Cedric Ashton
Rear Admiral Farncomb 1899-1971
Vice Admiral Sir John Collins, KBE, CB
Vice-Admiral Sir John Collins, who has died in Sydney aged 90, was Australia’s most celebrated sailor of the 1939-45 War. His destruction of the Italian cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni at the ...
HMAS Sydney-SMS Emden Action at Cocos Islands 1914 – A German Survivor’s Account
Diary of John Ernest James – Part 2
Written whilst serving in HMAS Sydney II This is the second instalment of the diaries of John Ernest James. He was in the Mediterranean Sea in HMAS Sydney and took ...
Armstrong, J M – Naval Wartime Hero (Part 2)
Diary of John Ernest James – Part 1
Written whilst serving in HMAS Sydney II John Ernest James was born at Gateshead England, and came to Australia with his family in 1928. He joined the RAN when he ...
Armstrong, J M – Naval Wartime Hero (Part 1)
Commodore J.M. Armstrong, CBE, DSO, RAN 1900-1988
Read at the funeral service at St. Brelade’s Church, Jersey, January 6th, 1989 by Michael Marett- Crosby. JOHN MALET ARMSTRONG, Jamie to his wife and friends, was born in Sydney, ...