Obit: canoe commando in Singapore Harbour
By Peter Hore
Able Seaman 'Moss' Berryman, who had died aged 96, was the last survivor Operation Jaywick, perhaps the most long-ranged and daring special...
Vale: Able Seaman Forrest (Mick) Jenkins DSM
On 31 July 2020 the town of Waroona in WA held a funeral service for HMAS Shropshire veteran Mr Forrest (Mick) Jenkins, DSM who,...
Obituary: RADM Andrew Robertson
FROM: CN AUSTRALIA
VALE: REAR ADMIRAL ANDREW JOHN ROBERTSON AO DSC RAN (RETD)
It is with great sadness that I inform you of the passing...
Farewell to Vice Admiral Ian MacDougall
By LCDR Alistair Tomlinson
Australia’s most senior submariner and former Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Ian MacDougall AC AFSM RAN, has died at age...
Obituary: Cmdr Jim Speed, early Normandy lander
Commander Jim Speed, who has died aged 96, was a beach commando who landed on Sword beach before H-Hour on June 6 1944, leading...
Obituary: LCDR Kenneth Brown
The following is the Vale signal for LCDR Kenneth Brown from the Chief of Navy:
It is with great sadness that I inform you of...
Obituary: David Leach
Vice Admiral David Willoughby Leach AC, CBE, LVO served as Chief of the Naval Staff from 1982 to 1985. Leach was born on 17...
Navigating a naval medical career
Obituary: Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander Peter James Hoare, RAN, Rtd.
By Michael Fogarty*
HMAS Sydney had returned to Korea for a second deployment in the post-armistice period from...
Admiral Sir Simon Cassels obituary
The Times has published an interesting RN obituary giving details of the life of a remarkable officer, Admiral Sir Simon Cassels, who had a...
HMAS Melbourne captain dies aged 98
Obituary: Captain John Philip Stevenson AM RAN Ret’d
24 August 1921 – 29 January 2019
(Captain John Stevenson was captain of HMAS Melbourne at the time...