NGVR POST WWII
NGVR Plaque Dedication. Shrine of Memories, Anzac Square Brisbane, 6 Nov, 1994.
Back. L-R Tom Lega, Joe Gleeson, Charles Brush, Frank Holland. Edward Tscharke.
Centre. Buster Mills, Jim Huxley, Kevin Baker, Bob Rasmussen, Kam On Leo, John Murphy.
Front. Jack Goad, Jack McGath, John Cooke, Neil Grieve, Alan Board.
Back. L-R Tom Lega, Joe Gleeson, Charles Brush, Frank Holland. Edward Tscharke.
Centre. Buster Mills, Jim Huxley, Kevin Baker, Bob Rasmussen, Kam On Leo, John Murphy.
Front. Jack Goad, Jack McGath, John Cooke, Neil Grieve, Alan Board.
The NGVR table after the march, ANZAC Day 1996.
From L. Tom Lega MM, ? , Stan Burton, Jim Keenan
The NGVR table after the march, ANZAC Day 1996.
From L. Tom Lega MM, ? , Stan Burton, Jim Keenan
CAAD, 107 Kam on Leo being presented with his medals on 23 June 1993 at Victoria Barracks, Brisbane.
Kam was in the Chinese Auxiliary Ambulance Detachment and reported for duty on the day of the Japanese invasion of Rabaul. He joined the Regimental medical team of Lark Force during its escape down New Britain until ordered by the RMO to burn his uniform and stay at a Chinese owned sawmill.
It took until 1993 for the Army to recognise his war service.
His full story is told in "Keepers of the Gate".
Alan and Barbara Dunwoodie wedding 1946.
NGVR Memorial Stone Dedication Day
Rocky Creek, Atherton Tableland
Tom Lega and Bruce Inch
Canberra
11 November 1993
L-R
Stan Burton NGVR
John Murphy ANGAU
Buster Mills NGVR
1993 Tom Lega MM and Buster Mills.
Tom Lega MM (NGVR/ANGAU), Jim Birrell MC (NGVR/ANGAU), Bill Bickerton (PNGVR) 1999
NGVR and Z Special Forces men taken at an exhibition organised by Museum Curator, John Holland, in 1998 in Brisbane.
L. rear with microphone, Norm Mundy (PNGVR)
Rear from L. Jack Goad, Kam On Leo, Tom Keenan, Stan Burton, ?.
Front. Frank Holland (Z Special), Tom Lega MM.
Brothers Tom and Jim Keenan, 1999. Both served in NGVR/ANGAU. Their brother Frank also served in NGVR/ANGAU
John Murphy (NGVR, Coastwatcher) later in the war a POW in Rabaul, ? - wearing an Independent Coy Tie.
Henry McCauley (NGVR/ANGAU), Stan Burton (NGVR, NG Air Wireless Warning Coy, AIB) 2006
Henry McCauley (NGVR/ANGAU) 1996
Henry lived in South Australia and often came to Brisbane around Anzac Day to march with the Association.
Stan Burton (NGVR/New Guinea Air Warning Wireless/AIB, Tom Keenan NGVR/ANGAU, Tom Lega MM. (NGVR/ANGAU)
Tom Lega MM, NGVR/ANGAU with Buster Mills NGVR/ANGAU
Norm Fisher with Lesley Tupo after the eruption of Mt Lamington, near Poppondetta, PNG, 1951.
Norm was a Cpl in the Rabaul Mortar Platoon and manned his post when the Japanese landed in Rabaul in January, 1942.
He managed to make his way down New Britain and escaped to the Trobriand Islands in Papua.
His full story is told in "Keepers of the Gate" - see Suggested reading.
Carlo and Palma Cavalieri, 2005.
NG2291 NX167143 Malcolm and Nora Goad in Adelaide post war.
Alan and Barbara Dunwoodie wedding, Bowral, NSW,. 1947,
Harold Osborne at dedication of NGVR and PIR plaques, Australian War Memorial, Canberra. early 2000's
Tom Keenan NGVR/ANGAU 2005
Norm Fisher and Molly Bowman wedding 1994
Norm Fisher 2004
N.J. Murphy NGVR/ANGAU with Tom Lega MM. NGVR/ANGAU 1996
NG2291 NX167413 Malcolm Goad and wife Nora
Tom Keenan with slouch hat complete with Bird of Paradise feather, PNG Consul General Paul Nehru, Bruce Crawford AM at the Association Museum
Tom Lega, MM. NGVR/ANGAU and Bob Collins on the verandah of the Museum.
Leo Kam On (Chinese Auxilliary Ambulance Detachment, Rabaul) Shui Hong Wong NGVR, Ralph Seeto PNGVR at funeral of Tom Lega.
Plaque to the NGVR at the Hall of Memories, Anzac Square, Brisbane.
The NGVR memorial in the Hall of Memories, Anzac Square, Brisbane.
The panel to the NGVR at the Bita Paka War Cemetery, Rabaul, PNG. Photo Bita Paka War Cemetery below.
Above and below. Bita Paka War Cemetery, Near Rabaul, New Britain.