RIMAU DAY 2024



                                                                                   Rimau and Commando Day.
On 7 July Assn President Phil Ainsworth, Vice President Bob Collins and Andrea Williams, PNGAA and Montevideo Maru Society attended the above day on board HMAS Diamantina at the Qld Maritime Museum.
This service is held each year to remember both Operation Rimau, the second commando raid on Singapore Harbour, in the latter months of 1944 resulting in all the attacking party being killed in action, by drowning, dying of wounds or being executed, mostly just prior to the end of WW11, and the Commandos who have died in service since the end of WW11.
It was a moving ceremony and Phil Ainsworth laid a wreath on behalf of our Association. 
After the ceremony fellowship and lunch was held at the Ship Inn, close to the Maritime Museum.
 
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Phil Ainsworth and Bob Collins with the Commando Banner on board                   HMAS Diamantina




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ACA Q;d President Mark Stanig giving address re Operation Rimau
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RSM Special Forces Command giving an address.
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Phil Ainsworth after laying wreath.
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Bob Collins, Andrea Williams,                Phil Ainsworth.
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Representatives from Special Forces Command with Doug Baird, father of Cameron Baird, VC. DSM. who was killed in action in Afghanistan.