When the war came : New Guinea Islands 1942 : personal stories of those who faced WWII on Australian territory and our greatest maritime disaster - the sinking of Montevideo Maru / compiled by Gayle Thwaites.

Collection type	Library
Author	Thwaites, Gayle, author, compiler.; Williams, Andrea, writer of introduction.; Garrett, Peter, 1953-, writer of foreword.; Papua New Guinea Association of Australia Inc. issuing body.;
Call Number	F 940.547252 W567
Document type	Monograph
Year	2017. 017
Pagination	xxviii, 514 pages, 69 pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 30 cm.
Publisher	Papua New Guinea Association of Australia Inc., Lismore City Printery.
Note	Includes index. A social history of those who faced WWII on Australian territory - stories of evacuation, escape, massacres, prisoners of war and our greatest maritime disaster, the tragic sinking of Montevideo Maru. Commorating the 75th anniversary of this period in the New Guinea Islands. This collection of personal and family stories is about the Australian settlers in New Guinea, civilians and ex-servicemen who had their lives disrupted by war, and of the young soldiers who found themselves defending a tropical towns hip.
Place made	Roseville, NSW [Lismore, New South Wales]

Abstract

Foreword / The Hon. Peter Garrett AM -- Our national myopia: a history forgotten / Max Uechtritz -- Introduction / Andrea Williams -- Lest we forget: -- Story that never goes away / Geoff Atkins -- They also served / John Bell -- Officers in captivity-a story of survival -- George Harrington-lost at sea / Barbara Herdon -- Lawrie Barko-the uncle we never me / Helen Petschel & Christine Cook -- My brother, Bobby Cornelious / Ron Cornelious -- My grandfather, Stanley Albert French / Lois Wright -- Loo Wainwright''s story / Judy Wainwright -- Sapper Jack Perry / Ron Douglas -- Charlie Campbell & his brother Jock / Helen Boutell -- Only yank in the Battalion / Lindsay Cox -- Private Hector Kay / Ross Hall -- Great-Uncle Clive Turner / Susan Voutier -- Three cousins-Hayes & Whythe / Ken Hayes -- Rev. Herbert Shelton, Minister in the Duke of York Islands / Kevin Playford -- Don''t worry about me / Helen Jeffery -- Private Thomas Ashley McCutchen / Gregory Clarke -- Life changed forever / Suzanne Handsaker -- Private Ginty Hoye / John Breen & Margaret O''Shannessy -- New Guinea life and escape from Rabaul / Doreen MacGowan -- Lance Sergeant Harry Goodwin / Lorraine Tait -- Trevor Collett, Adventist missionary / Anthea Hughes -- Smiths and the Battalion Band / Maxwell Clarke -- Ship of ''hell'' / James Burrowes -- Lt-Col Allan Cameron, leader of men / Phil Ainsworth -- New Guinea evacuee tells her story / Ellen Johnson -- Seventy-year journey / Frank Beadle -- William Leslie Heron / Melbourne Grammar Archives -- Sisters of war / Sr Berenice Twohill -- Francis Roy Hains / Kevin Hains -- Charles William Booth Houghton / Gayle Perry -- Brothers final act of love / Judith & Barry Angel -- Signalman William Edward Flood / Flood Family -- Alfred John Cock, 2/22nd Battalion / Elizabeth Trudgeon -- Hudson missing / Alan Capp -- Gunner Clarence William Rosewarne / Andrew Rosewarne -- Remebering Paddy Leeder / Lisa Cooper & Shriley Hosking -- Long way home-Rabaul to Tasmania / Karyn Hammerstein -- Bellingham brothers / Lyn Skillern -- Sunny-natured boy from Stawell / Don Boisen -- Pilgramage to Rabaul / Philip ''Hooky'' Street -- Edmund Hawnt, our grandfather / Janet Dykgraaff -- Donald Joseph Bell, ''recruiter and school master'' / John Bell -- Lance Corporal Ian McCarthy / Peter Enderby -- Rememberance poppies delivered to Bitapaka Cemetery / Kerry Elliot -- My uncle, Bill Abbott / Ian Loveday -- Grazier and soldier-Walter Cracknell / Roslyn Goodee & Brain Sands -- Rex Hartley of Moe / Graham Goulding -- Escape from New Guinea / Lyn Skillern -- Our heo, my brother Bill / Daphne Francis Stephens -- Largest Australian maritime disaster / James Burrowes -- Story of Harry Francis Schiffmann / Phil Ainsworth -- Olney brothers from Warburton / Gayle Thwaites -- Private John Richard Hyatt''s story / Debbie Mumberson -- Uncle I never met / Pat Mulvey -- Alfred Baden Page went to war / George Page -- Our only memories of Albert May / Gladys Freeth -- Their valentine''s gift / Kim Saunders -- Private Harold James Reid / M Schneider -- Harry Millsom story / Val Wheeler -- Lt-Col Charles Ross Field / Tony Field -- Colonel Leslie Hunter Lannan / Shelley Charles Walter -- Sargeant Eric Charles Mann / John Charles Walter -- Last letter home-legacy of a young prisoner of war / Simon Mann -- Known to his mates as ''Nifty'' / Barbara Butter -- Lance Corporal Kenneth J Kennedy / Ken Emery -- Keith Morris Gray / Jenny Haskins -- Lost years in Zentsuji / Alison Chinn -- Jim Perryman''s legacy / Lisa Cooper -- Eric Mitchell, coastwatcher / Neil Gow -- Husband, father but never a grandfather / Nola McCann -- My darling brother Jack / Ailsa Nisbet -- Country boy from Homestead / Ian Geyer -- Herbert Percy Seale / John Seale & Margaret Dunlop -- Private Roy Merrington Earle / Gayle Thwaites -- My dad, Paddy McGuiness / Peter McGuinness -- Private Charles Neil Head / Graeme Head -- Frank account / Suzanne Pascoe -- Long journey home / Brendan Gilbert -- Our Uncle Mick / Glenys Moss & Valerie Mobbs -- Cecil Fulton Cannon / Valma Betty Martin -- Clive Allan Macvean-survivor / Healther Oldfield -- Charles Joseph Tweedle 1916-1942 / E Sutton & Gayle Thwaites -- My brother, Thomas Arther O''Farrell / Isabelle Butterfield -- Leaving Rabaul, 1941 / Marie Thompson -- Wrong boat / Sandra Thwaites -- Roy Stewart McPherson / Ross Tucker -- My father, Fred Brooks / Gary Brooks -- Different fates for brothers / Mandy Kuhne -- In memoriam, John Edwards / Phil Ainsworth -- William Eric Rule Dennie / Peter Dennis -- Three years captive in Japan / Sarah Gillespie -- Policing New Guinea / Maxwell Hayes -- They were just country boys / Annette Murphy -- Remembering Thomas Stanley Hennessy / Millie Evans (as told to David Evans) -- Finding Bill / Sue Lawson -- Clara''s story / Janice Steinfurth -- Lance Corporal Ernest Keith Ghiggioli / Graham Ghiggioli -- William Francis Ladner / John Ahern -- My father, Bill Harry / Frazer Harry -- Bert Morgan, Battalion stretcher-bearer / Lindsay Cox -- Merry Christmas, be blowed! / Patricia Murphy -- Short life of Harry Adams / Kylie Adams-Collier -- Mother''s long silence / Patrick Bourke -- My uncle, Jack Moran / Wendy Hammond -- Long walk home / Andrew Bishop -- Jack Mills of Lark Force / Bess Flores -- Thomas Henry Herket / Patrick Bourke -- Evacuation from Rabaul, December 1941 / John Holland -- Private Wallace Ross Melville / Peter Scott -- Roadmaster, Norman Rawlinson Beck / Ray Beck -- Gladys Baker story / Ally Martell -- South Gippsland''s great loss / Lyn Skillern -- Killed in action-Robert Kennedy / E Suttton -- Sargeant Ralph Alan Codd / Codd Family -- My family in prewar TNG / Margaret Henderson -- Charles Glynn Fogden / Justine Jenke -- Lt-Col William Owen / Phil Ainsworth -- Dick & Larie Lambton / Lindsay Weightman -- Private Gordon James Morton / Dianne Ryan -- Private Frederick Martin Rae / Lorraine Haines -- Rev. Dan Oakes, Methodist missionary / George Oakes -- Story and fate of Bill Box / Gary de Vere -- My grandfather''s story / Steve Johnson -- Commandos escape from Rabaul / Don Hook -- Two brothers in the 2/22nd / Elizabeth Fraser -- Honouring my uncle / Judy Ireland -- Francis James Heriot, Lark Force / Geoff Molesworth -- Two stories about one soldier / Charles Campbell & Priscilla Cox -- Story of the three Turner brothers / Mark Dale -- Two Smith boys lost at sea / Peter Ramm -- Tragedy of the Bandsman of Brunswick / Lindsay Cox -- Gunner Jack Strange, Lark Force / Fay Firminger -- My grandfather, Jack Smeaton / Vicki Hobson -- Lance Bombardier Peter Dowling / Pamela Ferguson & Gayle Thwaites -- Diary of Jessie James / Sapper RR James (contributed by Phil Morgan) -- Last voyage of MS Herstein / Steinbjoern Mientzoni -- Lark Force Hospital, Kokopo, 1942 / Marian May -- ''Our Bill''-William Joseph Peplow / Yvonne Stephan -- Unknown father, Harold Jo Ross / Janet Ros Dyjkgraaff -- Rugby career cut short / Don Hook -- Bill Macgowan''s diary , 1942 / William L Macgowan (contributed by Muriel Larner) -- Dick Forsyth, my father / Beatrice Amy Knight -- My escape from Rabaul / Av Dore -- Letters to home / Vance Crozier (contributed by Betty Purr) -- Lost women of Rabaul / Rod Miller -- No long a tropical paradise / Norm Furness OAM -- Australia remembers -- 70th anniversary-1 July 2012 -- Rabaul and Montevideo Maru Memorial, AWM, Canberra ACT -- New Guinea remembers -- Into the future -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- General index.