Random thoughts and observations
Concluding the mini series on ships on which my Uncle John served in the Korean War, today I look at the aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney. Launched as a Royal Navy ship HMS Terrible in 1944, Sydney was commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy in 1948. Sydney was the first conventional aircraft carrier in the RAN. [...]
Continuing to look at ships on which my Uncle John served, the destroyer HMAS Tobruk is not quite as illustrious as the cruiser HMAS Shropshire, but distinguished nevertheless. Tobruk was commissioned at Sydney on May 8, 1950. According to Australian Government archives, John was aboard in the Korean War from August 31, 1951 to February [...]
The picture shows my uncle John Gorey in naval uniform, wearing a cap of HMAS Shropshire. I knew Uncle John had served in the navy, including in the Korean War, but I didn’t know about the ships. The internet is good for researching things like that. John died in 1997 and I only ever met [...]
The Shepparton News published a Remembrance Day tribute this month using material I had researched for the Gorey family history. Journalist Darren Linton did a great job compiling the information with photographs and putting it all into historical context. The Gorey family at war, part 1 Get your own at Scribd or explore others: The [...]
This picture shows my mother (second from right), her siblings and my grandparents about to leave Rotterdam in the Netherlands on the Wassenberg family’s voyage of emigration to Australia aboard the Groote Beer in 1955. I stumbled onto this topic because I found Maggie walking around with a copy of this picture: The Groote Beer [...]
