Cruiser (97 page)

Nelson, Jim,
Mediterranean Diary
, private papers

Norris, Roy,
A Cook's Tour
, Naval Historical Society, Sydney, 2005

Parkin, Ray,
Caribbean Diary
, unpublished, 1939
The Golden Mean
, notes for an unpublished autobiography
HM Bark Endeavour
, Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 1997
Mediterranean Diary
, unpublished, 1940–41
Out of the Smoke; Into the Smother; The Sword and the Blossom
, originally published by Hogarth, London. Republished as
Ray Parkin's Wartime Trilogy
, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1999

Reid family, private papers

Richards, Rowley,
A Doctor's War
, HarperCollins, Sydney, 2005

Rivett, Rohan D.,
Behind Bamboo
, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1946

Roberts, Rowland,
Age Shall Not Weary Them
, Paterson Press, Perth, undated

Sheedy, Brian,
The War at Sea
, Dromana, Victoria, 1996

Skeels, Fred,
Java Rabble
, Hesperian Press, Perth, 2008

Wallace, Kenneth,
Sunda Strait: The Last Day of Summer
, Drawquick Press, Sydney, 2007

Whitecross, R. H.,
Slaves of the Son of Heaven
, Dymocks, Sydney, 1951

Whiting family, private papers

Willis, Jack, private papers, AWM MSS1106, PR 87/185

Websites

A History of the Cruiser Perth:
www.perthone.com/perth.htm

Ahoy – Mac's Weblog:
http://ahoy.tk-jk.net

Australian War Memorial:
www.awm.gov.au

Children of Far East Prisoners of War:
www.cofepow.org.uk

HMAS
Perth
National Association:
www.hmasperth.asn.au

Naval history, ships and weapons:
http://navalhistory.flixco.info

Naval weapons and naval technology:
http://www.navweaps.com

Oral History: World War Two Rescue of Prison Ship Survivors, Landon L. Davis, US Navy Historical Center:
www.history.navy.mil/library/online/oral_history_davis.htm
.

Papers of Captain Harold S. Hamlin, 1945–60:
www.history.navy.mil/ar/hotel/hamlin.htm
.

Royal Australian Navy:
www.navy.gov.au

US Historic Naval Ships Association:
http://www.hnsa.org/index.htm

US Navy Department Library:
http://www.history.navy.mil/library/index.htm

USS
Houston
Survivors Association:
www.usshouston.org

USS
Pampanito
:
www.maritime.org/pamphome.htm

Abbott, Petty Officer Horrie

ABDA

Battle of the Java Sea

Combined Striking Force

formation of

Sunda Strait

Achilles
, HMS

Adams, Commander William

Adelaide
, HMAS

Admiral Graf Spee

Admiral Hipper

Admiral Scheer

Admiralty, the

Afrikakorps
see
Rommel's Afrikakorps

Agincourt
, HMS

Ah Fong

AIF

2/2nd Pioneer Battalion

2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion

2/4th Battalion

2/11th Battalion

2/13th Australian Infantry Battalion

2/19th Battalion

2/29th Battalion

2/30th Battalion

6th Division

7th Division

8th Division

9th Division

22nd Brigade

Anzac Corps

Australian Army officers in Changi

Australian Army to Greece

cost of Operation LUSTRE

lost in
Rakuyo Maru

official welcome back

Rats of Tobruk

retreat from Greece

Second

Ajax
, HMS

bombing of Piraeus

Akagi

Albatross
, HMAS

Alcoa Polaris

Alden
, USS

Amatsukaze

Ambon, Gull Force on

American Philatelic Society

Amphion
, HMS (renamed HMAS
Perth
)

see also Perth
, HMAS

Anami, General Korechika

Anderson, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles

Anderson, Wally

Anzac
, HMAS

Apollo
, HMS (renamed HMAS
Hobart
)
see also Hobart
, HMAS

Aquitania

Arizona

Ark Royal

Armée du Levant

Asagumo

Assiniboine

Atlantic Charter

Atmo, Mr

atom bomb

Attlee, Clement

Augusta
, USS

Australia
, HMAS

Australia
(II), HMAS

Australian Army Nursing Service

Australian Imperial Force
see
AIF

Australian Labor Party

Australian Women's Legion

Autolycus

Awa Maru

Axis tripartite pact

 

Badung Strait, Battle of

Bancroft, Arthur ‘Blood'

memoirs

picked up in South China Sea

POW

returns home

Barb
, USS

Barham

Barker, Sub-Lieutenant Ray

Barlow, Buck

Barnard, Commander Geoffrey

Bartolomeo Colleoni

Bataan
(C-54)

Bathurst
, HMAS

Beaumont, Flight Lieutenant Ernest ‘Beau'

Bee, Geoff

Bee, Signalman William Arthur atom bombing of Nagasaki

Awa Maru

Hakimoto-san

liberation

memoirs

Omuta (Fukuoka 17, Kyushu)

Perth

POW

Benevolence
, USS

Bennett, Major-General Henry Gordon

Bennett, Jack

Berwick
, HMS

Bevan, Billy

Bevington, Reverend Ronald

Binyon, Laurence

Birbeck, Ordinary Seaman Ross

Bismarck

Blackburn, Brigadier Arthur

Blamey, Lieutenant-General Thomas

Bligh, Captain

Bock's Car
(B-29)

Bohm, R. S.

Bolzano

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Bond, Able Seaman Eric ‘Chesty'

Bormann, Martin

Bounty

Bowden, Petty Officer Telegraphist Daniel

Bowden, Vivian Gordon

Bowyer-Smyth, Captain Sir Philip

in Athens

background

Battle of Kaso Strait

Battle of Matapan

commands
Perth

evacuation of Greece

farewells
Perth

Haifa

interview with Wilmot

leave

Perth
heads for home

Perth
hit by bomb

Peter Murdoch

withdrawal from Kalamata

Boxer Rebellion

Boxtel, Captain C. J. van

Bracegirdle, Lieutenant Warwick S.

Battle of Kaso Strait

Battle of Matapan survivors

bombing of Piraeus

Bowyer-Smyth

leaves
Perth

in Malta

Bracht, Bill

Battle of Kaso Strait

Battle of Matapan

in Cessnock

diary entries

evacuation of Greece

in Malta

Braddon, Russell

Bradshaw, Ron

Braun, Eva

Brazen
, HMS

Breda anti-aircraft gun

Brewer, Kathleen

Brian, Sub-Lieutenant Gerald

Brisbane
, HMAS

British Army

2nd Armoured Division

4th Hussars

14th Army

cost of Operation LUSTRE

evacuation of Dunkirk

Western Desert Force

British Merchant Marine

Brooke-Popham, Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert

Brooke, Rupert

Bruce, Stanley Melbourne

Bullwinkel, Sister Vivienne

Burchell, David

Burgess, Lieutenant Lloyd

Burma–Siam Railway

brutality

camps

coolie labour

cost in lives

diseases

Dunlop Force to Burma

funerals

Hellfire Pass

Japanese terms

Kwae Noi River

made public

maintenance crews

Melbourne Cup

monsoon

opening ceremony

Pack of Cards Bridge

Speedo period

Tamarkan Camp

Burnie
, HMAS

Burroughs, Lieutenant Clement ‘Butch'

 

Calcutta
, HMS

Caldwell, Nola

California
, USS

Campbell, Ensign Duncan ‘Duke'

Campbell, Paymaster Sub-Lieutenant Gavin

later life

POW

returns home

Campbell, Ian

Campbell, Max

Canadian Seigneur

Canberra
, HMAS

Carlisle
, HMS

Carter, Lieutenant Gerard

Casey, Richard

Castlemaine
, HMAS

Cattaneo, Vice-Admiral Carlo

Cerberus
, HMAS

Chamberlain, Neville

Champlain

Charlton, Andrew ‘Boy'

Chauvel, Harry

Chifley, Ben

Churchill, Winston

atom bomb

Blue Water Strategy

Burma

campaign in Greece

Crete

Cunningham

Curtin

as First Lord of the Admiralty

Force Z

French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir

Freyberg

Gallipoli

Hess

Menzies

oratory

as Prime Minister

Roosevelt

Singapore

South East Asian Command

Stalin

voted out of office

Wavell

Yalta

Ciano, Count Galeazzo

Circassia
, MV

City of Roubaix

Clan Fraser

Clarke, Lieutenant-Commander Guy

Clarke, John

Clement

Clifford, Signalman Les

Close, Arthur

Coates, Lieutenant-Colonel Albert

Collins, Captain John

Collins, Able Seaman Robert (Bob) Alfred Charles

Connor, Jean

Cook, Bill

Cook, Captain James

Cooper, Alfred Duff

Cooper, Lady Diana

Cooper, James

Coral Sea, Battle of the

Cosgrave, Colonel Lawrence Moore

Coventry

Cox, Jack

Coyne, Alf

Crace, Rear-Admiral John

Creasy, Able Seaman Alex

Creber, Chief Petty Officer Hubert ‘Jan'

Creswell
, HMAS

Crete

Battle for Crete

Creforce

prisoners of war

withdrawal from

cruisers

Cunningham, Admiral Sir Andrew Browne

the Admiralty

Battle of Matapan

campaign in Greece

career

evacuation from Sphakia

evacuation of Crete

farewells
Perth

Illustrious
, HMS

Kastellorizo

Phillips

Regia Marina

Waller

withdrawal from Kalamata

Cunningham, Jock

Curtin, John

background

becomes Prime Minister

Churchill

death

declares war on Japan

heart attack

Japanese threat

loss of
Sydney

Perth
presumed lost

Rangoon

re-elected

Roosevelt's death

Singapore

United States alliance

Cutler, Lieutenant Roden

Cyprian Prince

 

Dai Nichi Maru

Dainty

Dalfram

Dalyell-Stead, Lieutenant-Commander John

Dan, Vic

Dartford
SS

Darwin, bombing of

Davies, Robert ‘Bob'

Davis Jnr, Lieutenant-Commander Landon L.

Day, Leading Aircraftsman Noel

De Ruyter

de Silva, Frank

Deakin, Alfred

Decoy
, HMS

Defender

Delbridge, Adelaide

Dentz, General Henri

Department of External Affairs

Deutschland

Dewey, Sergeant Pilot Geoff

Diamond
, HMS

Dido

Dietrich, Josef ‘Sepp'

Doneley, Lance Sergeant Austin

Doneley, Merle

Doneley, Paul

Doneley, Army Captain Roy

Doneley, Syd

Dönitz, Karl

Doorman, Rear-Admiral Karel Willem Frederik Marie

Downward, Surgeon Commander Charles

Duca degli Abruzzi

Duke of York

Duncan, Betty

Duncan, Petty Officer Vic

poem to
Perth

Dunkirk, evacuation of

Dunlop, Lieutenant-Colonel Edward ‘Weary'

Dutch East India Company

 

Eagle
, HMS

Eccles, Commander Henry

Edina

Edward Albert, Prince of Wales

Edwards
, USS

Electra

Eliza (in Labuhan)

Emden

Emperor of India
, HMS

Empire Star

Encounter
, HMS

Endeavour
, HM Bark

Enola Gay
(B-29)

Enterprise

Epstein, Commander William

Erbach-Schönburg, Prince

Essex
(ammunition ship)

Evatt, Herbert ‘Doc'

Evertsen

Excellent
, HMS

Exeter
, HMS

Express

 

Fadden, Arthur

Farmer, Frank

Farmer, Lieutenant Harry

Farncomb, Harold Bruce background

in the Bermuda Triangle

commands
Canberra

commands
Perth

diary entries

drills

near collision

nicknames

SS
Tachira

strike by crew

Sunday services

Tahitians

Farouk, King

Farrell, Tom

Fegen, Captain Fogarty

Ferebee, Major Thomas

Fiji

First Fleet

First World War

Fisher, Captain Douglas