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Old 18-12-2007, 01:06 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by digger View Post
HMAS Goulburn was the escort of the Japanese vessel that was later to earn fame as the "Krait". At the Goulburn War Memorial Museum we have the jackstaff, ship's bell and some of the radios from the "Goulburn" as well as a scale model. The ensign used at the HMAS Goulburn Assoc last reunion is laid up in the Soldiers' Chapel St Saviours Cathedral in Goulburn alongside the guidon of the 7th Light Horse/Motor Rgt after it was disbanded. In the book HMAS MkIV there's a little story on some of Goulburn's actions

Rod
Good to see that this memorabilia is there for our children and their children to remember their deeds.
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My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html

"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."

(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)

What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site:
http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm
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