Yes it is now. I am waiting for PRECISE details but in some cases it goes back to 1948. More detail as I get it Cheers, Ted Harris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maurie" <henery1@tpg.com.au> To: "Ted HARRIS" <tedharris@ozemail.com.au>; <aus-military@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 9:28 AM Subject: Re: [AUS-MIL] Army Combat Badge > Ted > > Had a quick look-Dot point 13. "The award is not retrospective" ? > > Maurie > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ted HARRIS" <tedharris@ozemail.com.au> > To: <aus-military@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 7:16 AM > Subject: [AUS-MIL] Army Combat Badge > > > > The Australian Army has recently announced the new badge called ARMY > COMBAT BADGE. It is not available to Infantry and does not replace the > Infantry Combat Badge but it is available to members of Corps other than > Infantry in controlled circumstances. > > > > Because eligibility goes back in some cases to 1948 it might be worth > interested parties checking to see if the bloke you are researching is > eligible. > > > > Details at > > http://www.diggerhistory.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1199 > > > > Cheers, > > Ted Harris > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-MILITARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.14/501 - Release Date: 26/10/06 > > > > >

Ted Had a quick look-Dot point 13. "The award is not retrospective" ? Maurie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted HARRIS" <tedharris@ozemail.com.au> To: <aus-military@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 7:16 AM Subject: [AUS-MIL] Army Combat Badge > The Australian Army has recently announced the new badge called ARMY COMBAT BADGE. It is not available to Infantry and does not replace the Infantry Combat Badge but it is available to members of Corps other than Infantry in controlled circumstances. > > Because eligibility goes back in some cases to 1948 it might be worth interested parties checking to see if the bloke you are researching is eligible. > > Details at > http://www.diggerhistory.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1199 > > Cheers, > Ted Harris > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-MILITARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.14/501 - Release Date: 26/10/06 > >

The Australian Army has recently announced the new badge called ARMY COMBAT BADGE. It is not available to Infantry and does not replace the Infantry Combat Badge but it is available to members of Corps other than Infantry in controlled circumstances. Because eligibility goes back in some cases to 1948 it might be worth interested parties checking to see if the bloke you are researching is eligible. Details at http://www.diggerhistory.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1199 Cheers, Ted Harris

http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-heroes/beechey.htm is about the Beechey Boys Cheers, Ted Harris

Hi Ian, Still negative result. Must be a blockage somewhere in my system. In interim - Can you obtain details of following for me, please: STEELE John Pembroke Sapper 10799 3 Div Signal Coy Enlisted cMay1916 May have won Military Medal c1918 By way of explanation: I have a person of this name in my family tree but am unable to confirm that it is the same. WWI records presently accessed do not give DOB (18/5/1893). Apart from this and with distinctive matching second name seems OK. My subject did not marry until 1922 so that indicates too that he could have served in WWI. Oh that the site <Australia Anzacs in the Great War http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/index.html> was still available! Best wishes, Dean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Symonds" <isymonds@swiftdsl.com.au> To: <aus-military@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 7:37 AM Subject: Re: [AUS-MIL] WW I Nominal Roll > Dean, Had no problem with this Ian > > http://www.awm.gov.au/nominalrolls/ww1/

Dean, Had no problem with this Ian http://www.awm.gov.au/nominalrolls/ww1/

Ian and Don, VMT for your replies. Puzzling What internet site address are you using? Perhaps mine is out of date. I can get to name selection, then it goes to that page, beeps - and no further action. Or perhaps I am not waiting long enough. Other AWM sites including WWII Nominal Roll and WWI Embarkation roll are fine. Dean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Symonds" <isymonds@swiftdsl.com.au> To: <aus-military@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 8:11 AM Subject: Re: [AUS-MIL] WW I Nominal Roll > Seems OK here Ian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Tremethick" <dontremethick@ozemail.com.au> To: <aus-military@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:55 PM Subject: Re: [AUS-MIL] WW I Nominal Roll > Dean > It works ok for me > Don Tremethick > Wodonga > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dean Martin Rees Newman" <kenyon@znet.net.au> > To: <AUS-MILITARY-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:32 AM > Subject: [AUS-MIL] WW I Nominal Roll > > >> Greetings from the "Tropical Coral Sea Coast" >> (Lat 17.5s Long 146.1e) >> Hi to All, >> Are others having trouble with the AWM WWI Nominal roll site? >> http://www.awm.gov.au/nominalrolls/ww1/index.asp >> >> Or is it just me!! >> Seek hard and stay alert >> Dean Newman, North Queensland Australia. >> "As time goes by" >> kenyon@znet.net.au >> "We can't go forward without looking back"

Hi All: Harold and his older brother Christopher Beechey from Western Australia were in the A.I.F. in the 1915 Gallipoli landing. Harold (KIA 1917) was one of five Beechey brothers who died in the First World War; from an article & book by Michael Walsh. They were sons of Amy Beechey; her husband Revd Beechey (died 1912) was the rector of St Peter's church Friesthorpe, Lincolnshire which has a tablet to the five dead Beechey brothers. The CWGC website for Harold mentions only three of his brothers who died, (Bernard, Charles and Frank), omitting I think Leonard who has his wife not mother as next-of-kin, although like the others he has Reeve as a second/third forename. Three of the brothers survived, but Chris, half-crippled by a sniper's bullet at Gallipoli, returned to Western Australia and never saw his mother again. Michael Walsh researched another family, the Souls from Gloucestershire, that also lost five brothers in the war, and only found enough material for an article. But for the Beechey family, also affected by the WWI records burnt in WWII, he has records of two who were officers and two with records in the "awesome" Australian War Memorial Museum (see "Ancestors", September 2006 pages 49-52 & "Brothers In War:One family's ultimate sacrifice for king and country" by Michael Walsh; Ebury Press 2006) Yours, John Wilson

Hello Dean, Greetings from Townsville where the crocodiles swim at our main beaches!!! AWM WW I Nominal roll site loaded up okay for me this evening. Bye for now, Eldon Byant........... ----- Original Message ----- From: <aus-military-request@rootsweb.com> To: <aus-military@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 5:04 PM Subject: AUS-MILITARY Digest, Vol 1, Issue 25 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. WW I Nominal Roll (Dean Martin Rees Newman) > 2. Re: WW I Nominal Roll (Ian Symonds) > 3. Re: WW I Nominal Roll (Don Tremethick) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:32:50 +1000 > From: "Dean Martin Rees Newman" <kenyon@znet.net.au> > Subject: [AUS-MIL] WW I Nominal Roll > To: <AUS-MILITARY-L@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <000d01c6f7b3$f57044a0$dc73543a@deann> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=response > > Greetings from the "Tropical Coral Sea Coast" > (Lat 17.5s Long 146.1e) > Hi to All, > Are others having trouble with the AWM WWI Nominal roll site? > http://www.awm.gov.au/nominalrolls/ww1/index.asp > > Or is it just me!! > Seek hard and stay alert > Dean Newman, North Queensland Australia. > "As time goes by" > kenyon@znet.net.au > "We can't go forward without looking back" > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:11:12 +1000 > From: "Ian Symonds" <isymonds@swiftdsl.com.au> > Subject: Re: [AUS-MIL] WW I Nominal Roll > To: <aus-military@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <002501c6f7b9$51922320$0101a8c0@ian09uay5j2em1> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Seems OK here Ian > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dean Martin Rees Newman" <kenyon@znet.net.au> > To: <AUS-MILITARY-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:32 AM > Subject: [AUS-MIL] WW I Nominal Roll > > >> Greetings from the "Tropical Coral Sea Coast" >> (Lat 17.5s Long 146.1e) >> Hi to All, >> Are others having trouble with the AWM WWI Nominal roll site? >> http://www.awm.gov.au/nominalrolls/ww1/index.asp >> >> Or is it just me!! >> Seek hard and stay alert >> Dean Newman, North Queensland Australia. >> "As time goes by" >> kenyon@znet.net.au >> "We can't go forward without looking back" >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-MILITARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> __________ NOD32 1.1831 (20061024) Information __________ >> >> This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. >> http://www.eset.com >> >> > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:55:22 +1000 > From: "Don Tremethick" <dontremethick@ozemail.com.au> > Subject: Re: [AUS-MIL] WW I Nominal Roll > To: <aus-military@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <008a01c6f7e1$043b8670$0301a8c0@BROOKSIDE> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Dean > It works ok for me > Don Tremethick > Wodonga > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dean Martin Rees Newman" <kenyon@znet.net.au> > To: <AUS-MILITARY-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:32 AM > Subject: [AUS-MIL] WW I Nominal Roll > > >> Greetings from the "Tropical Coral Sea Coast" >> (Lat 17.5s Long 146.1e) >> Hi to All, >> Are others having trouble with the AWM WWI Nominal roll site? >> http://www.awm.gov.au/nominalrolls/ww1/index.asp >> >> Or is it just me!! >> Seek hard and stay alert >> Dean Newman, North Queensland Australia. >> "As time goes by" >> kenyon@znet.net.au >> "We can't go forward without looking back" >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> AUS-MILITARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the AUS-MILITARY list administrator, send an email to > AUS-MILITARY-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the AUS-MILITARY mailing list, send an email to > AUS-MILITARY@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-MILITARY-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of AUS-MILITARY Digest, Vol 1, Issue 25 > ******************************************* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 40 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try SPAMfighter for free now!

Dean It works ok for me Don Tremethick Wodonga ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dean Martin Rees Newman" <kenyon@znet.net.au> To: <AUS-MILITARY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:32 AM Subject: [AUS-MIL] WW I Nominal Roll > Greetings from the "Tropical Coral Sea Coast" > (Lat 17.5s Long 146.1e) > Hi to All, > Are others having trouble with the AWM WWI Nominal roll site? > http://www.awm.gov.au/nominalrolls/ww1/index.asp > > Or is it just me!! > Seek hard and stay alert > Dean Newman, North Queensland Australia. > "As time goes by" > kenyon@znet.net.au > "We can't go forward without looking back" > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-MILITARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Seems OK here Ian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dean Martin Rees Newman" <kenyon@znet.net.au> To: <AUS-MILITARY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:32 AM Subject: [AUS-MIL] WW I Nominal Roll > Greetings from the "Tropical Coral Sea Coast" > (Lat 17.5s Long 146.1e) > Hi to All, > Are others having trouble with the AWM WWI Nominal roll site? > http://www.awm.gov.au/nominalrolls/ww1/index.asp > > Or is it just me!! > Seek hard and stay alert > Dean Newman, North Queensland Australia. > "As time goes by" > kenyon@znet.net.au > "We can't go forward without looking back" > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-MILITARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > __________ NOD32 1.1831 (20061024) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > >

Greetings from the "Tropical Coral Sea Coast" (Lat 17.5s Long 146.1e) Hi to All, Are others having trouble with the AWM WWI Nominal roll site? http://www.awm.gov.au/nominalrolls/ww1/index.asp Or is it just me!! Seek hard and stay alert Dean Newman, North Queensland Australia. "As time goes by" kenyon@znet.net.au "We can't go forward without looking back"

Hello Listers Does anyone have access to the nominal roll in the book "Bandy's Boys: the Darwin Mobile Force" (Melbourne J Collins 1989)? I am trying to verify a statement C1976 that "some members of the force still remain in Darwin - Clive Keetley, Tassie? Pickersgill and Allan Stewart (white hunter Nourlangie)". I haven't been able to locate those gentlemen in the NAA service records or WW2 nominal rolls. Ciao Margaret

Refer http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-conflicts-periods/ww2/acf.htm Cheers, Ted Harris

Gidday Mike, Thanks for your welcome reply, much appreciated. Have you seen the photograph I refer to? Would you like me to send a copy to you? Maybe by looking at the photograph, you may be able to visualize from your old car parking spot and correlate the coastline in the background of the photograph. There is a tower of some sort in the piccy. I am now 80/90% certain the gun location picture was taken at Paga Hill, but if I can, I would like to be closer to 100% certain. Thanks again my friend. Bye for now, Eldon Bryant........ Townsville, North Queensland. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Boyd" <mikejboyd@bigpond.com> To: "Eldon R. J. Bryant" <e.bryant@bigpond.net.au>; <aus-military@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 12:31 PM Subject: Re: [AUS-MIL] "Paga Battery" WW II Port Moresby > Eldon > Whne I first started working in the Commonwealth Public Service, I was > working with the Cth Public Works Department and lived in Paga Point in > 1964-66. I fact I used to park the car on top of the upper gun > implasement. > > The lower gun was about 30 -40 yards away and a litle lower down the hill. > They would have bene 2 or 3 hundred feet up and right on the crown of the > hill at the at point. About 100 yards or so must have been a control > centre, as the timers called it the radio town. > > These guns would have only been able to protect anything coming throught > the passage in the reef or the Harbour entrance. > > There was a 8 inch gun implacement further down the hill, to the right of > these two emplacements. > > IN 1964-66, the star pickets and even some of the wire were still enplace > and there were no trees, > > I hope that may help you determine if the picture is Paga Point or some > other site. > > Mike Boyd > Brisbane > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eldon R. J. Bryant" <artillery.oz@bigpond.com> > To: "AUS-MILITARY Mailing List" <AUS-MILITARY@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 2:25 PM > Subject: [AUS-MIL] "Paga Battery" WW II Port Moresby > > >> Greetings from tropical paradise, Townsville. North Queensland.... >> >> Since July this year I have been researching the WW II location of a >> pictured un-mounted B.L. 6-inch Mk. XI gun. Mk. XI guns were made >> available to; >> >> [a] TORRES STRAIT Goods Bty [2 guns] >> >> [b] DARWIN East Bty [2 guns] Emery Bty [2 guns] Waugite [2 guns] >> (does anybody know the 'Waugite' location?) >> >> [c] MORESBY Paga Bty [2 guns] >> >> Extensive research has indicated the pictured gun was not located in the >> Torres Strait or Darwin areas, more recent research information received >> supports Port Moresby [Paga Battery] as the location of the photograph. >> If you would like to view the photograph, advise me direct of your E-mail >> address as the photograph cannot be sent via the AUS-MILITARY Mailing >> List. >> >> Would there be a Mailing List subscriber/reader that has information >> relating to the 2 x B.L. 6.inch. Mk. XI guns [ex Navy] that were >> installed for WW II coastal defence for one of the Port Moresby Gun >> Batteries, located at Paga Hill [Paga Battery] / Monga Point. This >> battery overlooked the Basilisk Passage, Fairfax Harbour, town and >> airfield areas. The Mk. XI guns were manned by Australian Army Gunners. >> >> Maybe you know of a Gunner who served with the Paga Battery! >> >> Information is also sought on other guns used in the defence of Port >> Moresby, whether installed and manned by Australian or American Gunners. >> >> I am aware of the Internet Web Sites; >> >> 1. 'Paga Hill Battery' >> >> 2. 'The Coastal Gun Batteries of Port Moresby - Then and now' >> >> 3. 'Justin Taylan - PacificWrecks.com Founder'... >> >> Your with thanks an anticipation, >> >> Eldon Bryant............... >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. >> It has removed 25 spam emails to date. >> Paying users do not have this message in their emails. >> Try SPAMfighter for free now! >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> AUS-MILITARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 31 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try SPAMfighter for free now!

The book " Salvos with the Forces " by Walter Hull goes into some detail about ACF activities during WW2. The Salvation Army worked alongside the ACF in raising funds, collecting donated goods and distributing them to our front line men. Quote from page 15 " The Lord Mayors Funds of the respective capital cities - Melbourne, Sydney, Hobart, Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane - became associated and were known as the Australian Comforts Fund in Melbourne and Sydney. The Salvation Arny was approached and offered financial support if it would associate itself with the ACF to eliminate the neccesity of overlapping of appeals. The association was agreed in NSW, Victoria and Tasmania only. The Salvation Army retained its identity of name and service throughout the war years." - " As much as 40% of the expenditure undertaken by the Salvation Army in war service was forthcoming from the ACF." A search of the Aust War Memorial collections will provide images of some of the items provided to our troops. Regards Davin Evans >Hello Listers > >I have a poem copied onto stationery headed the ACF Australian Comforts >Fund abt 1943? by my father Flt Lt "Dinga" BELL S/N 417328. > >1. Can anyone give me information about the organisation the Australian >Comforts Fund? There is some information at the NAA but nothing digitised. _________________________________________________________________ Nothing but cars & over 100,000 of them at carsales.com.au http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fsecure%2Dau%2Eimrworldwide%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fa%2Fci%5F450304%2Fet%5F2%2Fcg%5F801577%2Fpi%5F1005244%2Fai%5F836752&_t=12345&_r=emailtagline_tig_over100k&_m=EXT

Hello Listers I am writing an article for the FHANQ magazine 'Relatively Speaking'. Included is a list of 35 names/service numbers from sketches by Flying Officer G. Mitton of members of 77 Squadron that were published in the Wings magazine Vol 3 No 7 July 4 1944. All their service records have been digitised by the NAA. Their 77 Squadron Unit History Sheet - Detail of operations have also been digitised - Series A9186. Looking for anyone with an interest in these officers. They are BARRIE, Ian Reynolds 263252 BELL, Charles Nevil Ker 417328 BROCKLEHURST, John Dalziel 413729 CLARKE, Geoffrey Fitzgerald 427813 COLLINS, Russell Alfred 430094 CRANE, Donald Horace 417700 DICKENSON, Ivan Beresford 408058 EAMES, Gordon Keith 416837 HENDERSON, John Hilton 62366 HOLMAN, Allan Thomas 413867 IRWIN, Lyle 8276 KAYE, William Percy Cassaigne 418428 MARTIN, Walter Jordon 416888 MARTIN, Keith Neville 421357 MCTAGGART, Benedict Stanislaus Amos 411035 MITTON, Geoffrey 51482 NEALL, Charles James 413651 NORTHOVER, Albert Edward Trumper 406187 PAGAN, George Edward 411110 PALME, Bruce Anthony 432562 PROWSE, Douglas Vernon 411946 PYKE, Rodney Colin 427397 READ, Henry 4665 ROBERTS, Harold Wallace 409225 ROGERS, Duncan Dempster 411188 ROGERS, Reginald Ronald 413899 ROSE, Ronald Cleveland 421939 SCOTT, Clarence George 411966 SHEA, Bruce Robert 412719 STARK, Cyril William 576 SULLIVAN, William Henry 10514 SUMMONS, Henry Douglas 400106 - in NAA photo PO2874.247 28/5/44 named incorrectly as 410749 TAPSELL, Douglas Galvin 413449 THOMPSON, Reginald Eric 47320 TOUPEIN, Arthur Keith 37504 Ciao Margaret

Hello Listers I have a poem copied onto stationery headed the ACF Australian Comforts Fund abt 1943? by my father Flt Lt "Dinga" BELL S/N 417328. 1. Can anyone give me information about the organisation the Australian Comforts Fund? There is some information at the NAA but nothing digitised. 2. Does anyone know the author of the poem "Mother O'Mine" (not Kipling!). First stanza is: As I'm flying through the air and my guns turned on and ready Flying thru' the muck which makes the going hard but steady While the whine of Nippon's bombs make music in the air Why it's then I think of home and pray to God that I was there All the things I took for granted in those days before the war Are only things that matter now that's what we're fighting for Call it love of country, love of freedom its a love divine Like the love you bear for me and I for you Mother O'Mine. Last stanza If I hear a call at sunset and I earn a pilots grave The sacrifice is yours for I but give the life you gave Shed no tears for me if I go west to join that glorious band You taught me to be brave dear when you held a baby's hand And if I see the journey through I'll find you waiting there In the country where I left you with the sunlight in your hair I can hear your loving welcome, I can see you dear eyes shine And I can feel your arms about me once again Mother O'Mine. Ciao Margaret

Eldon Whne I first started working in the Commonwealth Public Service, I was working with the Cth Public Works Department and lived in Paga Point in 1964-66. I fact I used to park the car on top of the upper gun implasement. The lower gun was about 30 -40 yards away and a litle lower down the hill. They would have bene 2 or 3 hundred feet up and right on the crown of the hill at the at point. About 100 yards or so must have been a control centre, as the timers called it the radio town. These guns would have only been able to protect anything coming throught the passage in the reef or the Harbour entrance. There was a 8 inch gun implacement further down the hill, to the right of these two emplacements. IN 1964-66, the star pickets and even some of the wire were still enplace and there were no trees, I hope that may help you determine if the picture is Paga Point or some other site. Mike Boyd Brisbane ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eldon R. J. Bryant" <artillery.oz@bigpond.com> To: "AUS-MILITARY Mailing List" <AUS-MILITARY@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 2:25 PM Subject: [AUS-MIL] "Paga Battery" WW II Port Moresby > Greetings from tropical paradise, Townsville. North Queensland.... > > Since July this year I have been researching the WW II location of a > pictured un-mounted B.L. 6-inch Mk. XI gun. Mk. XI guns were made > available to; > > [a] TORRES STRAIT Goods Bty [2 guns] > > [b] DARWIN East Bty [2 guns] Emery Bty [2 guns] Waugite [2 guns] > (does anybody know the 'Waugite' location?) > > [c] MORESBY Paga Bty [2 guns] > > Extensive research has indicated the pictured gun was not located in the > Torres Strait or Darwin areas, more recent research information received > supports Port Moresby [Paga Battery] as the location of the photograph. > If you would like to view the photograph, advise me direct of your E-mail > address as the photograph cannot be sent via the AUS-MILITARY Mailing > List. > > Would there be a Mailing List subscriber/reader that has information > relating to the 2 x B.L. 6.inch. Mk. XI guns [ex Navy] that were installed > for WW II coastal defence for one of the Port Moresby Gun Batteries, > located at Paga Hill [Paga Battery] / Monga Point. This battery > overlooked the Basilisk Passage, Fairfax Harbour, town and airfield areas. > The Mk. XI guns were manned by Australian Army Gunners. > > Maybe you know of a Gunner who served with the Paga Battery! > > Information is also sought on other guns used in the defence of Port > Moresby, whether installed and manned by Australian or American Gunners. > > I am aware of the Internet Web Sites; > > 1. 'Paga Hill Battery' > > 2. 'The Coastal Gun Batteries of Port Moresby - Then and now' > > 3. 'Justin Taylan - PacificWrecks.com Founder'... > > Your with thanks an anticipation, > > Eldon Bryant............... > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. > It has removed 25 spam emails to date. > Paying users do not have this message in their emails. > Try SPAMfighter for free now! > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-MILITARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Greetings from tropical paradise, Townsville. North Queensland.... Since July this year I have been researching the WW II location of a pictured un-mounted B.L. 6-inch Mk. XI gun. Mk. XI guns were made available to; [a] TORRES STRAIT Goods Bty [2 guns] [b] DARWIN East Bty [2 guns] Emery Bty [2 guns] Waugite [2 guns] (does anybody know the 'Waugite' location?) [c] MORESBY Paga Bty [2 guns] Extensive research has indicated the pictured gun was not located in the Torres Strait or Darwin areas, more recent research information received supports Port Moresby [Paga Battery] as the location of the photograph. If you would like to view the photograph, advise me direct of your E-mail address as the photograph cannot be sent via the AUS-MILITARY Mailing List. Would there be a Mailing List subscriber/reader that has information relating to the 2 x B.L. 6.inch. Mk. XI guns [ex Navy] that were installed for WW II coastal defence for one of the Port Moresby Gun Batteries, located at Paga Hill [Paga Battery] / Monga Point. This battery overlooked the Basilisk Passage, Fairfax Harbour, town and airfield areas. The Mk. XI guns were manned by Australian Army Gunners. Maybe you know of a Gunner who served with the Paga Battery! Information is also sought on other guns used in the defence of Port Moresby, whether installed and manned by Australian or American Gunners. I am aware of the Internet Web Sites; 1. 'Paga Hill Battery' 2. 'The Coastal Gun Batteries of Port Moresby - Then and now' 3. 'Justin Taylan - PacificWrecks.com Founder'... Your with thanks an anticipation, Eldon Bryant............... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 25 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try SPAMfighter for free now!