Cruiser (99 page)

firebombing of Tokyo

Kawasaki Camp (Yokohama)

later life

liberation

POW

returns home

McGovern, Engine Room Artificer IV Vincent Bernard

McGrath, Frank

McQuade, Petty Officer Stoker John ‘Macca'

McWilliam, Lieutenant David

Mears, John

Mediterranean Fleet

2nd Destroyer Flotilla

5th Destroyer Flotilla

7th Cruiser Squadron

10th Destroyer Flotilla

14th Destroyer Flotilla

Battle of Kaso Strait

Force C

Force D

Force H

Haifa

invasion of Syria

losses

Syrian campaign

TIGER convoy

Mediterranean Sea

Mee, Able Seaman Harry

Melbourne

Menzies, Robert

Blamey

Churchill

Singapore

thrown out of office

visits
Perth

Wavell

welcomes
Perth

world trip

Midway, Battle of

Mikuma

Militors

Miller, Commander Michelle

Mills, Keith ‘Freddy'

Mississippi

Missouri
, USS

Mitchell, Andy

Mitsui, Baron Takaharu

Mogami

Mohawk
, HMS

Moji Maru

Molotov, Vyacheslav

Monadnock
, HMS

Moresby
, HMAS

Morgan, Lieutenant-Commander Eric St John

Morgan, Henry

Morriss, George

Morshead, Lieutenant-General Leslie

Moses, Major Charles

Mountbatten, Captain Lord Louis

Muar, Battle at

Munro, Lloyd ‘Darby'

Murdoch, Peter

Murphy, Spud

Musashi

Mussolini, Benito

invasion of Greece

meeting with Hitler

Regia Aeronautica

 

Nachi

Nagano, Admiral Osami

Nagasaki, atom bombing of

Nagato

Nagatomo, Lieutenant-Colonel Yoshitada

Nagumo, Admiral

Naiad

Naka

Nanking, Rape of

Napier
, HMAS

The Narrows, Battle of

National Socialist German Workers' Party

Natori

Navplion

navy

bomber's moon

burial service

ceremony of sunset

chain of authority

Channel Fever

‘chummy' ships

‘comb the tracks'

‘enemy in sight' signal

firefighters

gunners

harbour routine

hosepiping

‘make smoke'

mess decks

night action

officers' pay

officers quarters

paravanes

radar

sailors' pay

signalling

stand to the dawn

stokers

T crossing

watches

Navy Office

Nazi Party

Neame, Philip

Needham, Elsie

Nelson, Bill

Nelson, Jim

air raids on
Perth

Battle of Kaso Strait

Battle of Matapan

Bevington

bombardment of Wadi Damour

bombing of
Perth

bombing of Piraeus

burial service

Crown and Anchor

evacuation of Greece

Haifa

leave

in Malta

memoirs

Menzies' visit

paint ship

Perth

Southampton

Nelson, Lord

Nelson, Peter

New Mexico

New York Times

New York World's Fair

New Zealand Army 2nd Division

Nichimei Maru

Nile, Battle of the

Nimitz, Admiral Chester W.

Nizam
, HMAS

Nomura, Admiral Kichisaburo

Normandie

Normandy invasion

Norris, Roy

air raids on Alexandria

in Alexandria

in Athens

Battle of Matapan

bombing of Piraeus

Bowyer-Smyth

evacuation from Sphakia

leave

in Malta

Mediterranean Fleet

Menzies' visit

Nazareth

Perth
hit by bomb

retires

Nubian

 

Oakley Jnr, Commander Benjamin

Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW)

O'Brien, Able Seaman Ronald ‘Seamus'

O'Connor, Sir Richard

Okinawa, Battle for

Oklahama

Olna

Orcades
(troopship)

Orion
(German auxiliary cruiser)

Orion
, HMS

Owen, Lieutenant-Commander Philipp ‘Polo'

 

Paloma
, HMQS

Pampanito
USS

Pandeglang Hospital

Parkin, Alma
see
Hatfield

Parkin, Arthur James

Parkin, John

Parkin, Laetitia

Parkin, Raymond Edward (Chief Petty Officer Ray)

abandon ship

in Alexandria

Battle of the Java Sea

Battle of Matapan

Battle of the Sunda Strait

bombing of Piraeus

books

Bowyer-Smyth

death

diary entries

Dunlop

HM Bark Endeavour

Kipling
, HMS

later life

in Malta

mateship

in Melbourne

memento from
Perth

model of
Perth

painting

POW

returns home

survivor

typhoon

Parkin, Thelma

Parks, John ‘Jerry'

Parramatta

Parry, Major-General Michael Gambier

Partington, Leslie

Partington, Perce

Patching, Petty Officer Julius

Patterson, Pat

Paul Jones
, USS

Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on

Peary
, USS

Pegasus
, HMS

Penguin
, HMAS

Percival, Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest

Perth
, HMAS

abandon ship

air raids on, in Mediterranean

air raids on, in Pacific

aircraft on

Ajax

in Alexandria

armament

in Athens

attached to Royal Navy

Battle of the Java Sea

Battle of Kaso Strait

Battle of Matapan

Battle of the Sunda Strait

in the Bermuda Triangle

bombardment of Wadi Damour

bombing of Piraeus

camouflage

campaign in Greece

in the Caribbean

choir

Combined Striking Force

commands

see also
Bowyer-Smyth, Captain Sir Philip; Farncomb, Harold Bruce; Waller, ‘Hard Over' Hector Macdonald Laws

convoy and patrol

cost

drills

engines

escorts troops across Indian Ocean

Essex

evacuation from Sphakia

evacuation of Greece

exercises

fire on board

first boarding by

as flagship

goes down

Haifa

in Halifax, Nova Scotia

hit by bomb

hit by shell

hit by torpedos

in Jamaica

joins ABDA

Kastellorizo

leaves for home

loss of
Sydney

losses

Malta

in Mediterranean Fleet

memorials to

naming ceremony

in New York

radar

Rakuyo Maru

refit

repairs

saluting guns

seaworthiness

Southampton

strike by crew

in Suda

Sunda Strait

in Surabaya

survivors

survivors as prisoners
see
Japanese prisoners of war

survivors, RAN search for

survivors transported home

in Sydney

in Tahiti

Tanjung Priok

trials

as troop transport

turning circle

withdrawal from Kalamata

wreck

Perth
(II), HMAS

Perth
(III), HMAS

Petacci, Clara

Pettit, Bonnie

Phaeton
, HMS (renamed HMAS
Sydney
)
see also Sydney
, HMAS

Phelps
, USS

Philippines

American camp for returning prisoners

Japanese invasion of

Phillips, Admiral Sir Tom

Phoebe
, HMS

Pike, Colin

Pinguin

Pirie
, HMAS

Pistole, Frank ‘Goldie'

Plunket-Ernle-Erle-Drax, Admiral Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly

Pola

Poorten, Lieutenant-General Hein Ter

Pope
, USS

Post, Laurens van der

Potsdam Declaration

Pound, Sir Dudley

Power, Lieutenant Terry

Pridham-Wippell, Henry

Prince of Wales
, HMS

Prinz Eugen

Protector
, HMCS

Purtell, Frank

 

Queen Elizabeth
, HMS

Queen Mary

Queenfish

Quinn, John

 

RAAF

lost in
Rakuyo Maru

Squadrons

Rabaul, Lark Force on

Raeder, Generaladmiral Erich

RAF
see
Royal Airforce

Rahn, Rudolph

Rakuyo Maru

Ralston, Jack ‘Bluey'

Ramillies

RAN
see
Royal Australian Navy

Ranger, Able Seaman Bill

Rangitane

Rankin, Lieutenant-Commander Robert

Rashin Maru

Redlead (cat)

Reece, Petty Officer Stoker Bill

Regia Aeronautica

Regia Marina

Regio Esercito

Reich, Commander Eli

Reid, Charles

Battle of Matapan

Bowyer-Smyth

cap

commands
Perth

Crown and Anchor

later life

Perth
survivors

Renown

Repulse

Returned Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen's Imperial League of Australia

Reynaud, Paul

Rhoades, Lieutenant-Commander Rodney ‘Dusty', RAN

Ribbentrop, Joachim von

Riccardi, Admiral Arturo

Richards, Captain Rowley

Richardson, Vic

Risley, Tom

Ritchie, Frank

River Plate, Battle of the

Rivett, Rohan

Roberts, Rowland (Rowley) George

memoirs

Perth

Rodgers, Don

Rommel's Afrikakorps

Rooks, Captain Albert Harold

Rooks, Edith

Roope, Lieutenant-Commander Gerard

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

Roosevelt, President Theodore

Roskill, Captain Stephen

Ross, George ‘Johnny'

Royal Airforce

Royal Australian Naval College (RANC)

Royal Australian Navy

in Far Eastern Fleet

Japan's formal surrender