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Gwen ALLMAN (née Evans)
26 September 1998, aged 8 Gwen was one of the schoolchildren in Rabaul in the early 20s, along with her brothers Hal and George. Their...

John Mayers
Jun 261 min read
Rose ALLEN
16 August 2008, aged 91 Rose spent many years in PNG with her kiap husband Bill. She passed away following a stroke in late July. Rose...

John Mayers
Jun 261 min read
George Barry ALLEN
about Sept 1998, aged 79 George was born in New Zealand and joined the Royal Papuan Constabulary and New Guinea Police Force in October...

John Mayers
Jun 261 min read
Mabel E ALLEN
14 September 1978 No details published.

John Mayers
Jun 261 min read
Deidre Lillian ALLEN (née Wright)
19 July 2004 Born in Sydney, Deidre applied for entry to ASOPA as a cadet education officer as soon as she completed the Leaving...

John Mayers
Jun 261 min read
ALLAN, Valerie (née Grant)
8 May 2020 age 83 Valerie was born in Adelaide on 28 January 1937 to Methodist Missionary parents, Dawn and Ralph Grant. She spent her...

John Mayers
Jun 152 min read
Heather E M ALCORN-FROST
late February 1999, aged 79 Heather Alcorn-Frost lived in PNG from 1955 to 1983. She was involved in Maternal and Child Health clinics...

John Mayers
Jun 151 min read
Noela B ALCORN
June 2001, aged 66 Noela was the wife of Neil McKay Alcorn (deceased). She was in PNG from 1961 to 1974 at Rabaul, Kandrian, Talasea,...

John Mayers
Jun 151 min read
Ronald Bruce ALBERT
25 April 1991, aged 62 Ron Albert was a quiet achiever and he was never one to boast of his personal achievements, but there were many in...

John Mayers
Jun 152 min read
Eve AKERMAN
11 December 2003, aged 83 Eve went with her husband John, an Australian Government doctor, to Rabaul in 1947. Her second son, Kim, was...

John Mayers
Jun 151 min read
Thomas George AITCHISON
29 July 1999, aged 88 Tom Aitchison (sometimes known as ‘Tommy’) grew up in Victoria, and graduated from Melbourne University with a...

John Mayers
Jun 152 min read
Sylvia AITCHESON
November [?] 1983 Popular wife of the Association’s long time Honorary Auditor, T.G. (Tommy) Aitcheson.

John Mayers
Jun 151 min read
AISBETT, Margaret
19 July 2020 No further details available

John Mayers
Jun 151 min read
Richard (Len) AISBETT
25 February 2007, aged 76 Born in Scarsdale, Victoria, Len worked for the Commonwealth Bank in Ballarat and Melbourne before applying for...

John Mayers
Jun 151 min read


Joan AINSWORTH, née Decker
3 February 2012, aged 75 Mother, grand-mother, tennis-player, traveller, librarian, genealogist, Joan Ainsworth was the eldest of four...

John Mayers
Jun 153 min read


ADAMSON, Charles (Charlie) William
22 May 2021 Charlie was the son of CTJ (Bill) Adamson, the name which Professor Michael Bird (my main source) states in his book ‘…...

John Mayers
Jun 154 min read
John “Didiman” ADAMS
4 January 2015, aged 78 John first went to PNG in 1956 as a 20-year-old to work for Burns Philp, as an overseer on Kalili plantation on...

John Mayers
Jun 151 min read
Theodore Francis ADAMS
17 September 1998, aged 74 Theo Adams first went to New Guinea in 1944, aged 21, as a member of the 2/2nd Commando Unit of the AIF...

John Mayers
Jun 152 min read
Kit ADAMS
1990, aged approx. 45 Kit Adams joined DASF as a Cadet in 1961. he became a good Didiman, serving in Bougainville, Northern Province...

John Mayers
Jun 151 min read
Ken ADAIR
4 June 1995, aged 71 Ken was with the PNG Public Health Department and when he retired I believe he was Chief Accountant with the...

John Mayers
Jun 151 min read
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