Bravo Zulu Project, initiated in 2009, was brought to a successful conclusion last month with the official launch of Bravo Zulu: Honours and Awards to Australian Naval People Volume 2: 1975-2014 by the Chief of the Australian Navy, Vice Admiral Michael Noonan.
The ceremony was attended by senior naval officers and selected representatives of the honours and award recipients whose stories appear in the book, as well as the team of volunteers who conducted the research under the leadership of Dr Ian Pfennigwerth.
In launching the book Admiral Noonan remarked that ‘Contemporary books such as this are few in number as our more recent Navy history has by no means been researched as thoroughly. Books such as this are important as a tribute to Navy’s people, their achievements and sacrifices made to achieve the Navy’s mission’.
Now, in just two volumes, Australians have a magnificent resume of the trials, tribulations and triumphs of their navy in 115 years of service to the nation, illustrated through the individual accounts of those naval men and women who received imperial, Australian and foreign honours and awards for their service, gallantry or bravery. The two volumes also contain the stories of awards made to members of other Australian and foreign Services for the service with units of the Australian navy. In all around 4000 recipients of honours and awards have their stories, including a resume of their Service careers, in peace and war, recorded in the two volumes of Bravo Zulu.
Further details about the projects and the books can be found on Dr Pfennigwerth’s website – www.nautilushistory.com.au.
